Talents In Games: HR Conference 2022 — what will be in the program?

Next week, on May 26, the third online conference for HR specialists of the gaming industry Talents In Games: HR Conference 2022 will be held. We tell you what is in her program and who might be interested in her.

The event will be held in one stream from 11.00 to 18.50 with a break of an hour and a half in the middle of the day. It announced five reports and two round tables. Let’s focus on them in detail.

• The conference will be opened by a report by Irina Belenya, HR business partner at MY.GAMES. She will talk about identifying key people in the team using the “360 Degree Assessment” method and automating HR processes.
• Nexters Boost Art Director Anton Kravets will share his experience in selecting artists for midcore projects, as well as give some tips on what to pay attention to when interviewing such specialists.
• Today, many companies are considering entering the Chinese market. Aliya Arsayeva from the recruitment agency China Professionals will tell you about the difficulties you may face when hiring in China.
• Then a round table on relocation will start with the participation of studios that have experience in launching studios abroad and supporting personnel who have decided to move. The problems of the processes will be discussed by representatives of Belka Games, ZeptoLab, Azur Games and i-Free.
• About the challenges faced by HR in the search for game specialists in the report “Search for developers. It’s hard to look for, easy to lose and impossible to forget,” says Sergey Mayev, recruitment lead at Talents In Games agency.
• What is important to know about employee burnout and how to work with it is the main topic of Natalia Kalinina‘s speech, who is the director of Organizational Development at Banzai Games.
• The conference will end with a round table about compensation and benefits systems in gaming companies. Its participants from Playrix, Axlebolt Development, Playkot and WN Media Group will talk about the nuances of such systems and their relevance in a crisis.

According to the organizers, the conference will be interesting for various HR specialists:

• novice HR-am;
• HR specialists who just want to enter the IT sphere (for example, through the gaming industry);
• experienced gaming HR professionals interested in the experience of colleagues;
• to all HR specialists interested in personal growth;
• studio managers and team leaders who participate in the selection of employees.

The conference will traditionally be held on the basis of the WN Hub communication platform. A ticket giving access to the program and the opportunity to communicate with guests and speakers of the event will cost €99.