Games. Factory. Talents.
Finnish Game Day and Games Factory have joined forces in July of 2018 by forming a joint venture called Games Factory Talents. The new company helps Finnish IT and game companies reach much needed talent abroad, mainly focusing on the Eastern European markets.
Helsinki, Finland
Lack of talent as a barrier for growth
"We decided to commit helping talents find their dream job in Finland"
It's been common knowledge for a while now that there is a huge lack of talent in the IT and game industries, that will not be satisfied by moving a person from company A to company B within the Finnish market.
The universities are also not generating enough graduates to solve this problem. This is why we decided to start doing small-scale recruitment events last year, taking Finnish companies to places like St. Petersburg and Kiev to meet local talent.
However, we soon realized that out of the hundreds of professionals attending our events we were only helping the handful that were recruited by the participating companies. This is when we decided to start interviewing the specialists ourselves, and commit to helping them find a position in Finland.
The universities are also not generating enough graduates to solve this problem. This is why we decided to start doing small-scale recruitment events last year, taking Finnish companies to places like St. Petersburg and Kiev to meet local talent.
However, we soon realized that out of the hundreds of professionals attending our events we were only helping the handful that were recruited by the participating companies. This is when we decided to start interviewing the specialists ourselves, and commit to helping them find a position in Finland.
"Instead of building a platform only for the job seekers, we wanted to build something that would attract the companies to come visit our site in search for talent"
Seeing the talent as an equally important customer as the hiring companies, Games Factory Talents decided that they wanted to build a community of developers and to showcase this community to the companies looking for new talent.
"Instead of building a platform only for the job seekers, we wanted to build something that would attract the companies to come visit our site in search for talent. Our goal was to have a way to present our talent to companies, before the company has to start the long and expensive journey of advertising an open job position."
This is how the Talent Board got started. The Talent Board was published on the 10th of September 2018, the day before Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki. The Talent Board features a variety of available game industry professionals, revealing just enough of information about them for companies to decide if this is someone they want to pursue.
"We've partnered up with a few companies after PG Connects, and we've also had more talent signing up through the website. We invite any companies looking for talent, and talent looking for new career opportunities, to come visit our site and to get in touch with us."
"Instead of building a platform only for the job seekers, we wanted to build something that would attract the companies to come visit our site in search for talent. Our goal was to have a way to present our talent to companies, before the company has to start the long and expensive journey of advertising an open job position."
This is how the Talent Board got started. The Talent Board was published on the 10th of September 2018, the day before Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki. The Talent Board features a variety of available game industry professionals, revealing just enough of information about them for companies to decide if this is someone they want to pursue.
"We've partnered up with a few companies after PG Connects, and we've also had more talent signing up through the website. We invite any companies looking for talent, and talent looking for new career opportunities, to come visit our site and to get in touch with us."