ETS for Studios

How Can ETS Improve Your Engineering Staffing?

With a decade of Manager and Director of Technology experience, ETS Principal Malcolm Johnson knows the games industry, game industry engineering positions, and hiring processes, and can help you fill your engineer positions. This experience resounds with engineers and serves as a foundation for all communication, resulting in a large network of engineers and fellow recruiters to assist you.Hiring game programmers? As a technical manager, your challenge is to identify and attract engineers that match your needs, to win their interest over that of your competition, and to do so quickly, predictably, and cost-effectively. To succeed in this staffing market, you realize the need to engage a variety of strategies and know that using a process that fills a design or art position does not reliably fill a senior engineering position. Advertizing on your company web site or industry job pages is a necessary start but if these do not produce timely results, let us help. We are available for contingency placement or retained search. The latter guarantees our focus as well as first viewing of candidates, valuable advantages in engineering. Contact ETS today to create a customized search for your senior-level engineering positions.

Let's Get Started

Here is what ETS needs to conduct a professional search for you:

A thorough profile of each position, more than is often contained on a job description
An understanding of the deliverables for which the right candidate will need to provide
An estimate of the position's compensation including desired and maximum salaries, bonus structure, benefits, and relocation package
An explanation of your hiring process
A commitment to respond to all staffing-related communications within 24 business hours and to keep the process moving
Your assistance in educating ETS and viable candidates on your location

How We Work with You

Armed with the items above, ETS is now ready to begin your search in earnest. Methods vary widely and since your reputation is coupled with your selected recruiter's activity, be sure to read the hallmarks of ETS's methods. Sourcing comes first using every option at our disposal including an extensive and current candidate repository, a vital network of professionals and fellow recruiters, and a professional mechanism for sourcing new candidate entries. As candidates are identified they are informed discretely and enthusiastically of your position. Eligible candidates are thoroughly profiled for fit using a decade of experience in games technology leadership as a sounding board. If a candidate is deemed a fit, credentials are submitted for your consideration upon gaining the candidate’s approval.

Candidates meeting your approval are then shepherded through your hiring process, ideally culminating in the presentation of an offer. ETS works with both parties to create an offer package that is mutually agreeable and quickly accepted.

ETS remains involved as the candidate resigns and avoids counter offers, relocates, prepares to begin working for you, and even for a short while as the new position begins to gel.

Contact ETS today to discover whether we can improve your engineering staffing situation.

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