The Finnish game industry employs more people every year. Companies are looking for new employees from all over the world. Neogames collects data on local game companies’ employment rates and the kind of skills they are looking for. Many companies have multinational staff: based on our recent study, 30% of employees in Finnish game companies are non-Finns.
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How do I Find Open Positions In Game Industry in Finland?
Join to the community immediately! Ideally on the beginning of your studies, or even before. Because from game industry professionals you can get a better understanding about work at game industry and it’s recruitment, and people are nice.
Useful Links
- Open positions in Finnish Game Industry are often posted to Facebook’s Play Finland group hosted by Neogames. These jobs are listed on our Weekly News.
- You can also subscribe to our newsletter
- Many game companies tell about open positions on their websites. Neogames hosts a comprehensive list of Finnish game companies with links.
- Jobs in Finnish game studios are posted to Gamejobs.fi portal
- Games Job Fair organizes recruitment events for industry professionals
- Games Factory Talents specializes in game industry professionals’ recruitment
- Finnish employment agency Duunitori.fi‘s list of jobs tagged to game industry
- Finnish game companies actively recruit on LinkedIn
- The Living Game Intelligence Network (LGIN): flowchart about game start-up funding in Finland
- A map of key competencies in the games industry
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Rovio offers now opportunities for job seekers to sign up for job alerts.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
In general: it’s a good idea to just jump into any game industry events you can and start “networking.“ All the IGDA chapters around Finland: https://www.igda.fi/events
Link to the Google calendar of Finnish Game Industry events
Tips for Entering the Game Industry
Neogames has created flowcharts aimed at answering some of the most common, entry level type questions we get asked about employment in the industry, having a game idea and start-up funding. The flow charts below are meant to provide an overview of how the local game industry functions and what kinds of actors operate in it. Click images to view charts in full size.
WANT TO WORK IN THE GAME INDUSTRY?
HOW TO ENHANCE MY SKILLS AND GET EMPLOYED?
I HAVE A FANTASTIC GAME IDEA. HOW DO I PROCEED?
I HAVE GAME START-UP AND I NEED FUNDING.
HOW DO I PROCEED?
