I made an experimental jobs site!
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Hi everybody! For those that have been laid off, I created an automatically-updated jobs site for every new game job posted on LinkedIn: http://www.jonjones.com/jobs/
I also started a Twitter today that posts all the same jobs: https://twitter.com/gamejobslist
There are 425+ jobs online now, and it adds about 25 new listings every day. The link is to a publicly-shared Google Doc, and I provide a link to download the latest spreadsheet so you can edit and filter it for your needs. To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing else like this out there, and people have responded very positively to it since I launched it recently.
If you think it's useful, I would sincerely appreciate it if you folks could spread the word around.
I haven't officially launched the Twitter account yet (it's still waiting to be fed jobs as they post), so you're the first to hear about it.
For those that are curious how it works, its a spreadsheet is continuously and automatically populated with job postings on LinkedIn from game companies I follow that are posting new positions. I use the wonderful task automation tool IFTTT and this recipe to create it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/126007-job-ads-to-a-google-spreadsheet
The way it works is that it automatically monitors all the game companies I personally follow on LinkedIn (~170 or so) that post jobs on LinkedIn, then automatically enters the data onto this spreadsheet. I let it run for a few days as an initial test to make sure that only game companies jobs are getting posted and that the formatting is intact, and it seems to work just fine with virtually zero input from me.
Thanks folks! Hope you find this helpful.
I also started a Twitter today that posts all the same jobs: https://twitter.com/gamejobslist
There are 425+ jobs online now, and it adds about 25 new listings every day. The link is to a publicly-shared Google Doc, and I provide a link to download the latest spreadsheet so you can edit and filter it for your needs. To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing else like this out there, and people have responded very positively to it since I launched it recently.
If you think it's useful, I would sincerely appreciate it if you folks could spread the word around.
I haven't officially launched the Twitter account yet (it's still waiting to be fed jobs as they post), so you're the first to hear about it.For those that are curious how it works, its a spreadsheet is continuously and automatically populated with job postings on LinkedIn from game companies I follow that are posting new positions. I use the wonderful task automation tool IFTTT and this recipe to create it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/126007-job-ads-to-a-google-spreadsheet
The way it works is that it automatically monitors all the game companies I personally follow on LinkedIn (~170 or so) that post jobs on LinkedIn, then automatically enters the data onto this spreadsheet. I let it run for a few days as an initial test to make sure that only game companies jobs are getting posted and that the formatting is intact, and it seems to work just fine with virtually zero input from me.
Thanks folks! Hope you find this helpful.
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The beauty of a basic site idk what to say i am in awe really, best site ever!
Thanks!
Nice work!
*bow*
So I got frontpaged on reddit on /r/gamedev/, and apparently that's also been named the subreddit of the day. Holy crap. So many site visits, and like 60+ new Twitter followers in the last half hour. Insane.
it was Bound to happen, you are a genuine pillar of the community dude, the amount of people you will be helping with this is immense.
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I wouldn't complain if it were categorized, but a Ctrl + F with job specific keywords (art, artist, character, prop, etc) never hurt any
Awesome resource man! Thanks for putting it together and sharing!
I've seen some friends sharing it too, this seems to be really catching on.