How Amir Satvat finds jobs for thousands of game industry people | The DeanBeat

Amir Satvat is the undisputed game job champion. During the game industry’s worst job downturn in the past 2.5 years, about 35,000 game jobs have disappeared. But Satvat, in his spare time, has helped create easily accessible resources to help people find game jobs. And nearly 3,500 people have found jobs through those resources. That’s amazing, and it’s why The Game Awards gave Satvat its first-ever Game Changers award back in December. It’s been my honor to discover Satvat and write about his efforts to bring great transparency to finding jobs. Back when I wrote my first story on him, he was tracking jobs at 732 companies and had helped 450 people find work. Now, he’s tracking more than 3,000 companies and he is producing stats that no one else in the industry can do. As an example, he predicted that hiring would exceed firing for the first time in January for the first time in about 30 months. He estimates there are 243,000 people directly employed in jobs. And he noted that some ... Read full article.