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Preparing your application

We hear developers from Square Enix and Sumo Digital discuss how they evidenced their skills in job applications and interviews.

How do you sell yourself in your application?

In this video, you’ll hear our developers chat about what they put in their applications to evidence their skills and expertise.

The developers mention a few ways to provide evidence that they had the potential to do these jobs, even if they didn’t have any or a lot of direct experience of games development. Some involve thinking laterally about everyday skills. Other tips involve talking about personal and educational projects which show skills which could be applied to working on games.

Did these give you any good ideas?
Which of these strategies might you wish to try?

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