[game_edu] [JOB] changed to discussion

[Peter Border]

One job once in a while is fine with me- as always, it is a great thing to show to students! However, if it grows to 50 posts/day, that's something else.

Peter Border
Programming and Game Design Co-coordinator
Minnesota School of Business
Richfield, MN
pborder at msbcollege.edu
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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of DeAnne Preston [DPreston at collinscollege.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:19 PM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] [JOB] changed to discussion

I have welcomed the academic postings here and forwarded them on to Instructors whom I know are searching. This posting today was useful to me, since the overwhelming majority of students at our school are studying game development in order to find work in the industry. It was a great way to ‘dangle the golden carrot’ so to speak – if you attend class, take the advice your teachers are offering and build your demonstrable skills, there is still great employment available, even in this economy.

DeAnne Preston
Collins College Career Services Advisor, Game Design
New Direct Line: 480-446-1136
dpreston at collinscollege.edu<mailto:dpreston at collinscollege.edu>


From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Susan Gold
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:28 PM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] [JOB] changed to discussion

So what do you all think about having someone post jobs on the listserv? I do not monitor who requests membership to our listserv, however, this seems like the 1st time someacademicone has ever posted a job on the list that was not academic. What are your thoughts, should we allow this type of posting? Should we even allow academic job postings? I would like to get your feelings and possibly come up with some stipulations or recommendations. The IGDA is about to launch a new website and with it many more communication tools. Should we add content like job openings to the site? If so, do you want to be in charge of it? Should they be limited to purely academic in nature? Although I am not too big on tight governance, I think we have grown to a reasonable size ~800 folks. I think we should have a discussion about what to do with jobs, equal to what we do with CFP? In addition, we should have an expanded web presence, not just a list. What are some of the things we can move off the list and onto the site? I post slides from talks and photos from conferences, but that is about all. We are volunteer based and the SIG and this list is what you make it. We have a new school year coming up, new opportunities for collaboration and I hope possibilities for growth in our organization.

Susan


On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Beau Gould (OSS) wrote:


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