Exhibitors
Last year 1152 attendees came to Games Grads from 54 universities and colleges. In total, over 80 different games and non-games courses were represented.
Games Grads is first and foremost a careers fair but you can also come along and find out more about some of the leading post-graduate courses that are on offer.
Companies that took part included:
BigBig
Blitz Games
Chemistry
City University
Codemasters
Codeplay
Evolution Studios
Eutechnyx
Goldsmiths College
Guerilla Games
Jagex
Kuju
Microsoft Games Studios
Rare
Rebellion
Rockstar Games
Skillset
Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios
University of Hull
Here's what some of the people taking part thought of it:
" The Game Grads events have once again proven to be great opportunities to meet a wide range of skilled graduates from dedicated games courses and also various related fields. The quality bar we are seeing coming out of universities continues to rise and it was wonderful to reacquaint ourselves with students we had talked to in their first and second years. A number of those students were now showing us portfolio work where they had taken our feedback and flourished into very employable developers indeed. I'm looking forward to putting some serious time aside to go through all the CV's that have been pouring in through the jobs section of our website since the event. Consider Rebellion signed up for next years event! "
Rebellion
"Games Grads was once again an excellent opportunity to meet students, graduates and experienced people. We were able to advise and explain more about our company and what we look for in employees. It was clear that everyone who attended had a huge amount of passion for a career in games and took our advice on board and appreciated feedback on their art portfolios.
We hope students found it beneficial to speak to us to find out more about the direction they need to take in their studies and future career.
Rare Limited - Microsoft Game Studios
'Games Grads '08 gave us a great opportunity to meet face to face with literally hundreds of enthusiastic and talented students and graduates. As well as potentially finding new recruits, the event was also a really useful way for us to offer advice and guidance to the future generations of the games industry.'
Blitz Studios
"We attended the Games Grad event for the first time this year and were absolutely stunned with the response and experience as a whole. It was a fantastic day and a real pleasure to meet so many talented, passionate graduates. I would recommend this fair to any company thats serious about graduate recruitment in this sector."
Jagex
‘From an exhibitors perspective a very enjoyable event to attend and provided us with en excellent opportunity to speak directly with the industry's future talent. Will only get better as awareness of the event grows'.
Sega Europe
