yeah... that's a very narrow view of networking. Networking is a two way street and people who view it as a one way street tend to get confused why half the traffic is flowing in the wrong direction. Typically at "networking" events everyone is only looking to take away and not give anything in return so the networking…
The bottom line though if you suck your connections that you do have probably will not recommend you for the job. Plus video game art is a hard field to 'fake it' on the job. Projects move fast and you'll be dead weight fast if you can't hack it despite knowing the CEO or whoever. I love working with past coworkers (who…
Almost everyone I know got their job not just because they had the skills, which they did, but because they were buddies with someone or had worked with others in the past. It doesn't guarantee you a job. But fuck if it doesn't help. Friends will get asked about job opportunities before a company puts any effort or money…
The way I have seen networking work is that you have a sort of "graduating class" for the years you are learning, where everyone is a noob and you help each other get better. Years later all those noobs are well placed, working on major projects at big studios. I found contests and colabs to be especially awesome at…
well this got outa hand quickly^^ so let me clarify some stuff first before i go into the details. this thread is not about whether networking helps you get a job. it is about knowing you may get a job easier then everyone else, wich may actualy be true but wont help you in of itself. so.... i have gotten jobs only knowing…
I have been summoned! Though I'm a bit late to the party. :p It's entirely self-defeating by trying to make "having connections" sound like it's a bad thing, as though it's sleazy or immoral. Having a connection means knowing a guy or having a friend. If I got introduced to a contract or a job from a friend, isn't that a…
Connections help you get a job all the time. The only industry in which that isn't the case is a game studio because you are required to have skill as well provided you want to be a game artist. Basically you need both. Knowing a job just opened up is more than half the battle. Your potential boss knowing that you are not…
Hate to disagree, Every single job EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I got was never because I was X amount of awesome, but I knew so and so, and was friends, or they owed me a favor or something along those lines, after that it was experience, and the fact I make killer drinks for the office that usually gets me hired....the saying…
If a company is about to start hiring it certainly helps to know someone inside that company about upcoming job positions - assuming that person is fully qualified for those positions. That person can rush your portfolio/resume/application to the people responsible for the hiring process and may get you a head start…
I've worked at 3 studios in the last 5 years. Apart from my first studio gig which I got into through work placement from my degree. The other 2 I got due to the fact I knew someone there. I still had to "jump through the normal hoops" of art tests, interviews, trial periods, etc. And the studios would never have hired me…