Thread by @KHagen95

I recently went through a lot of applications for a job opening that we filed & I want to share some insights of what may give you an edge when writing an application!

Theyre probably all pretty basic but jumped out to me in a lot of applications!

#gamedev #gamejobs 🧵1/12

First of all, its worth mentioning these were for a (Mid Level) Unity Programmer job opening. Of course we received applications from people of varying skill levels, so the quality of applications also varied a lot.

But some of these mistakes also happened to senior peeps 2/12

1️⃣ Too much/little detail

Plenty of the applicants were either extremely over- or undersharing. I had to read multiple pages in the introductory e-mail or sometimes only a "I want the job. Find my resume". Both are giving away your chances. 3/12

If I have to read too much, you're wasting my time, if I have nothing to read, you're just a faceless nobody and won't wake my interest.

Try to stick out but keep everything concise and clean. If you can, find a nice conversation starter. Do at least a minimum intro! 4/12

2️⃣ Not following requirements

Most companies ask for certain things in their job openings - CVs, Resumes, Folios, (file) formats, ...

Find these information, stick to them and submit properly. Not doing this indicates you didnt really care about your application for us! 5/12

3️⃣ Poor Links

Many applicants provide a good bunch of links - from the intro mail to their CVs, folios etc. If there is a link of any form, make absolutely sure it is clickable and it does not lead to a dead end. Most of the time I will not be able to copy paste 6/12

every link and if one of them leads to a dead website, I will stop looking at your materials.

Heck, even if they all work perfectly fine, I will probably not check all of them, unless the first ones are amazing! Put your most impressive work upfront & easily accessible. 7/12

4️⃣ Overstatement

This especially was an issue with junior applications - looking at you, fresh grads! 👀 If you recently finished university and have (almost) no prior industry experience, PLEASE, for the love of god don't put "LEAD" or "PRINCIPAL" or similar on your CV🙅🏼‍♂️ 8/12

I know its tough to stick out and impress people but this has the opposite effect! We all know that you were not working as a lead of any form in university, even if you led that production technically. Its a uni project... 9/12

... so please be reflective about it! Otherwise its an indicator for a potentially cocky attitude and I know very little people who'd like to work with such an attitude in their team. 10/12

5️⃣ Be forth coming

Make your application as easily digestable as possible. Put the important info in front. Make it easy for me to find what makes you special. Unfortunately there are a TON of applications and often only 1 (if at all at small studios) scans them all. 11/12

Out of almost 200 applications we've had only ONE of them tell me their timezone in their initial writing without me having to ask later on.

This one person thought about what it means to apply at a company hiring remotely, while the rest clearly didnt. 12/12