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that does serve the kind of similar purpose putting in your cover letter as kind of explaining it in the resume so you definitely are going to put a cover letter in, I think, where you explain Hey, I've worked with a lot of sensitive kind of Topsy or whatever how it covers classified information. I think the cover letter can convey that because you're right it's it's especially what I'm looking at right here you have a lot of job history and things like that, that take up a lot of space. You might consider just job, work experience that you can directly kind of collate to the gaming industry even if it's not necessarily in the gaming industry. Okay, like so for example, if you're looking for an artist position, you know unity 3d program right and read all the way through this but you know, that might not necessarily be something that you want to include. Yeah, 
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And also, um, I don't know if anybody's your how's the background, but if you know or, if you do if you know people. I am currently interested to talk to people with a finance or legal background. So no, I know that most people are more on the developers side. You know, if you know somebody that might be interested in that. Please send them my way.
so much. I wasn't sure whether it was the right place. But yeah, I mean, it's great. So hi, my name is Nigel Ma. I'm actually a pretty experienced might've had 15 years of marketing experience, but I've never been in the gaming industry. So I have an interest of going into the gaming industry. And I guess what I wanted to try and understand is, is there a particular way that I should be shaping my CV, communicating certain things to be desirable. So at the moment we're doing is I feel like so I've been doing like game writing master classes with the narrative department. I'm also producing slash project managing a game jam right now for the winter visual novel, jam. So yeah, so like, I would appreciate any, any feedback, anything I could be doing, because I know it's a really difficult time at the moment. And I want to make sure that I'm doing due diligence as well. Like, I'm not just talking like a big game. I want to make sure that I'm sharing and I'm doing all the right work as well.
but digital marketing. Okay. Yeah. email and social media executive Yes. If it's let's say that you're going forward for community you have this social media executive experience, but then on on ecommerce. I'm sure that you also have successes when it comes to engagement. So these are numbers that are also valid when talking about social media. And someone that is looking to hire into this position is going to want to know what capacity do you have to engage people. So you always need to look at the the first four things that they request when they say on on an offer. They say we want people to have this, this and this. The first three or four usually are the most important. Okay, so look at that and understand exactly what are what they want. What do they mean with what they are looking for. But yeah, in marketing, you know, generally is engagement, most engagement, how much money did you make the ROI you got? All this kind of all these kinds of measurements of KPIs of the success you had is what's going to get people's attention and also if you skill it if you want to get into the industry as we said before to I can't remember his name I'm terribly sorry. Um, it's important that you that you name drop something regarding gaming like you play games, you are engaged, you are involved in game jams. Anything that shows that suppose you have passion for games in in marketing, it's as I said, it's very specific that the marketing of gives us very specific so some hiring managers may not be willing to take a chance with someone who comes outside of the industry, particularly in a moment like this. With so many professionals looking for an opportunity to share. Anything I know that working for free is something that nobody likes, but any chance that you can get involved in something that may teach you a little bit about for instance, if you're organizing a game jam, maybe you want to help with the marketing and to engage people to participate in things like that. And even though it is some sort of side project or a fan project, this is something that that make sure that you understand who is the audience and you understand about the market. You guys want to add something here,
never going to be a shortage of game developers looking for marketers. So you know, there's, there's so much stuff for you to do. But as far as your resume goes, you know one of the pieces of advice I found in the past was that a recruiter slash hiring manager is only going to spend about 30 Seconds or Less looking at your resume. So they're not they're not even getting into that second page. You definitely want to try to have everything you can all the most important things your most recent work experience relevant work experience education skills, all on the first page okay.
amazing. Yes, I've learned so much from her. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I think so. This is kind of like what I call my like, my everything bagel CV which is everything everything and I kind of like edit it down according to the the job role I go for so. So thank you for giving some guidance on like how much you should edit. it down. Because like, it's always a juggling act between Yes. How much do I reveal? How targeted do I get? So yeah, I mean, knowing that 30 seconds or less, that is really useful. Thank you.
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resume looks very good, very clean. still has a little bit of graphic elements to it. So like we were saying, it looks great, but your art station is where you want to show off your graphics. So if it means I mean, you got a lot of information in here but if it means that you can get a little bit more info Can you scroll up and just scroll up a little? Is that just the intro? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, if it meant that you can get a little bit more info by removing the graphics that's always preferable, but this looks actually really good. And I think as long as those aren't images, that's something that ATS should be able to pick up. You know, the skills the software's right up top. That's great your experience next. This is definitely someone who is going for a more experienced level because like, like Luis was saying earlier, you know, it depends on what you're going for where you structure the resume and throwing those skills right on top. is, I think a great idea. Yeah,
for that, like mostly your LinkedIn. I mean, it doesn't really hurt anything to have it. But, you know, just again, for clearing up more space, you might be able to make text a little bit bigger. As I was saying earlier, you know, the resume and people reviewing your resume, hiring managers recruiters, you're gonna spend about 30 seconds looking at it, so you really want to make this stuff that you want them to see first shine. So a good way to do this a little bit bigger tech sometimes, like that's gonna be the first thing that their eye goes to. So if you can make some more room for that.
different options as I say and you got some kind of development shots, the sketchbook the weapons sketches, you know, the In Progress shots that show you know the the art process, not just the final result is definitely what people want to see for the games that you're throwing the awards on dynamic concept are so did you you actually were were involved in winning that award. I'm guessing