Cruising through job sites I've thought about contract work and doing what I need to do to get experience before landing a full time position. However, I've recently heard horror stories about contract work from not being able to work for another studio for 8 months under contract and forcing to take unemployment to being…
Contract work isn't a prerequisite for landing a full time position. Also be careful not to confuse experience with skill. I have seen someone with 0 experience and a great portfolio hired full-time over someone with multiple games shipped but a very weak portfolio.
Hmm, I would assume they where rotating contractors so they could always have contractors working? If it was a break to get around benefits I could understand just as long as I was guaranteed work afterword's. If I was layed off for 3 months then not hired on after then that would be a waist of time not job hunting IMO.…
Kinda surprised people haven't seen this in more contracts, I have seen it a lot, might have changed. But yeah I was told it was mostly that they didn't want you to give away ideas of the game you are working on to a similar title but I was free to go anywhere I wanted anyway. But of course the best way to handle it is to…
Contracts are always negotiable. Always. You just need to learn that it is a barter system, not a 1-sided hammer. A contract is at the core a communication tool... here are the players, the rules we'll both play by, the dates and details, what the money is, how we're going to handle changes, etc. All negotiable. If you…
This discussion comes up every so often. Im not sure how legally binding a signed contract of this type is, because I never signed one. When I do freelamce work for clients they never mention restrictions like these, well it would be kind of absurd. Im guessing if there are enough people desperate enough then the firms…
Never heard of a non-compet clause for contract artists. I would never abide by that at all and would have it removed from the contract before I signed one if I was in that situation. I do know some places can only retain you for 9 months on a year long contract and if I recall that was mainly so they could get around…
They want people on contract because they're cheaper, but they can't legally keep people on contract forever. What happens is they let the contract lapse, wait for the legally mandated X month period, and then attempt to hire the person back, once again on contract. There's no guarantee you'll be hired back just like…