Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Cardata
Associate Recruiter
Playground Games
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Screen CVs and portfolios, helping shortlist strong candidates for hiring teams
- Coordinate interviews and act as a point of contact between candidates and interviewers
- Source candidates through various channels, including job boards, LinkedIn, online communities, events, and referrals
- Draft and post job descriptions in alignment with hiring managers
- Support employer branding efforts across social media, job platforms, and at industry and education events
- Assist with end-to-end recruitment for entry-level and mid-level roles across departments (art, design, engineering, production, etc.)
- Maintain and update ATS to ensure accurate candidate records
- Help deliver a positive candidate experience, from first outreach to final feedback
- Collect and organise feedback from interviewers and follow up with candidates promptly
- Conduct research and collate information and present findings on potential new job boards, diversity recourses, industry events and conferences
- Establish strong working relationships with Recruitment, HR Teams and hiring managers
Requirements
- Experience in recruitment, ideally within the video games or tech industry, either in-house or agency
- An understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle and basic sourcing strategies
- Familiarity with roles in game development (e.g. art, design, engineering, QA, production) is a plus
- Comfortable using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and applicant tracking systems
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A collaborative mindset — able to work closely with hiring managers and senior recruiters
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative environment with changing priorities
- Proactive, self-motivated, and eager to learn and grow within a recruitment team
- Passion for games and an interest in game development and industry trends
