Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter
Gasket Games is growing and today we are looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team. You will partner with hiring managers and others to bring the best and brightest talent to our studio. You pride yourself on your ability to provide an excellent candidate experience and you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. While you work well independently, you are also team oriented and like to have fun.
You will play a key role in ensuring that we bring in a talented and diverse team while providing an exceptional candidate experience.
What will you do?
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for multiple roles across all disciplines.
- Work closely with hiring managers to understand the roles we are hiring for, create compelling and accurate job descriptions, conduct thorough screening interviews, plan and facilitate job interviews, create offers and communicate with candidates throughout the entire process.
- Build external relationships with candidates both for open roles and proactively for future roles while representing Gasket’s employer brand.
- Continuously evaluate and improve our recruitment processes and maintain documentation for these processes.
- Partner with post-secondary institutes to build a pipeline of new and future talent.
- Attend virtual and in-person events such as career fairs, summits, meetups, etc.
- Assist with our co-op program and drive the recruitment of new co-ops.
- Stay connected with the team through Slack, Google Hangouts, and email.
Who are you?
- Ideally, you have experience as a recruiter in the games industry. You bring with you a well established network.
- You care deeply about the candidate experience, start to finish.
- You are a natural people connector. You enjoy meeting people, getting to know them and you also know how to keep your connections thriving.
- You have a good understanding of the roles that exist in the games industry.
- You are energized by a busy environment. You prioritize thorough record-keeping and attention to detail when tackling tasks.
- You are organized and an excellent communicator, both verbal and written.
- You have experience using LinkedIn, an ATS, and a variety of job boards.
- You are naturally curious about people and you enjoy building long-term relationships.
Finally, a little about Gasket Games Corp. We are a studio of 38 creatives who enjoy playing games together as much as we enjoy making them together. We have a high bar for quality within our games and mutual respect within our company culture. Our office is located in downtown Vancouver, right outside the Waterfront skytrain station, surrounded by great places to eat.
We offer very competitive benefits including:
- Competitive salary.
- Choose your own working style: remote, hybrid, or in person. You choose which works best for you.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation, plus a studio closure over the Winter holidays.
- Participation in the Employee Shares Option Plan.
- An extensive health and dental plan.
- An inclusive culture where you get to work with talented and respectful team members who want to make awesome games, just like you.
- Weekly studio update so that you know what’s going on.
- Frequent virtual team events.
Gasket Games is a safe, supportive, diverse and inclusive environment where people of all walks of life are welcome and belong. We welcome and encourage everyone to apply.
If the role and our studio sound interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!