How To Get A Job In The Game Industry - 3 Tips 

You have to get a Job in a small Indie company, after a two year of experience you have the chance to get in AAA.

My thoughts (I'm not an expert, use my thoughts with caution) If you have experience with the TYPE of work the job is and your biggest desire is to do the same type of work, but do it for the company you are applying for, is very helpful. Find something specific about the SPECIFIC company that you really like or would be proud of being a part of. Types of work: (1) High endurance doing prolonged physical labor with high stress. (2) Sitting + completing tasks on time. (3) Dealing with angry, impatient people properly to diffuse and resolve problems. (4) Identifying problems and able to come up with solutions. Also, being reliable to show up for work, while minimizing requesting days and time off, is a huge plus. Being knowledgeable about the things you will be working with, is a benefit also. A huge one for me is: Frequently verbally communicating with your supervisors/managers about current work progress, problems/difficulties and telling them about work accomplishments is a HUGE benefit. You may be like me and be afraid of keeping in verbal contact with your supervisors, because you are afraid they may tell you that you need to improve and aren't good enough and end up resulting in being fired. This issue came up, when I didn't make any effort to keep in contact with them, which made the rare communications either be unrelated to work or to be told I was messing up somehow. However, once I knew WHO to keep in contact with and once I informed ALL of those people, along with THEIR supervisors that I would be making an effort to communicate with them better, EVERYTHING changed. I still avoid them SOMETIMES when I feel ashamed about things, because I hope they won't notice my mistakes, but even just the occasional "Hey, I (did this) and I'm going to (do this) right now", let's them keep track of what I have done and what I am doing, which ALLOWS them to have the opportunity to say "GREAT" or "That sounds good, but I noticed something else that I believe is a higher priority, if you could please take care of this issue first, that would be fantastic". When in doubt, communicate TOO OFTEN, you will learn how to throttle communication up or down, the more you do it. Think about this, if you have something online that is earning you money, it is nice to know each time you earn more money or to be able to check on the progress at any time you want, even if you find out many times you haven't made any extra profit. Now think about if the website to check your money, didn't send notifications and was only randomly available and mostly not available. Switch that out for your manager wanting to keep track of your progress and you will see how much of a difference it will make. Stuff like that. Good luck everyone.

So, 1. Have a portfolio to show. 2. Having contacts can be a major boost. 3. Making the project assigned to you a personal one will allow you to think in terms of "What else..." and might be useful to get on the good side of the employer. I'm hoping this is right, right?

Good to know your perspective. I want to add that if you have worked on quite a few projects already, you can customize your portfolio, put the most relevant and similar work up, and the rest down in a "other experience" section! That way they can instantly take a look at what they are interested in, and it will make that good first impression.

I really want to get into the AAA industry and these are some really helpful tips. Thanks.

Good tips, I've personally received many more interviews and offers after creating an online portfolio. I'm a programmer, so I included samples of code along with gifs/pictures of the games I've created, along with a short description of the game.

All well understandable points. Thanks for this. Well compressed. So it means continue working hard on portfolio, continue to be a cool person and get the hell out there.

LOL, I'm reviewing this, now.

What to do if we are in India plz reply me

What’s a portfolio exactly.? And I’m young do you have any tips to get me a little head start? And I’m a little confused between designer and developer and programmer are they the same. Is working for indie or AAA better? Which one pays more

Great video Thank you! what do you think a Game Design portfolio should include? things like level design,GDD/FDD,game analyze?

Would a degree be useful for the AAA game industry and if so what kind of degree

Great advice, does this advice works for entering into free lancing too . As free lancing helps to create portfolio and free lancing requires portfolio . It looks like a vicious circle 😀

a career in the AAA games industry is overrated kids.