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David Smith - Managing Director

Interactive Selection is the market leading search and recruitment company working only in games and interactive entertainment.
The company was founded by David Smith in 1996 with an office in London, UK. Interactive Selection recruits globally working with the very best of recruiter associates in the USA, Japan and China. We do not advertise. Job seekers are attracted to the company by reputation and word of mouth.

Interactive Selection is a socially responsible recruiter with long standing initiatives to attract graduates and those from other industries into the games industry. We also work to recruit more women into the games industry by promoting role models and giving encouragement and information to those seeking to work in games. We believe that recruitment is a partnership and should be FUN. We work hard to take the stress out of the process and deliver long term success to all parties.

Our service is free to job seekers. Let Interactive Selection do the work for you. We will advise you every step of the way looking out for your best interests.

We are dedicated to finding the best opportunities for our registered job seekers in over 200 client companies that include 2K Games, Bigpoint, CCP, Codemasters, Crytek, Digital Chocolate, Eidos, Electronic Arts, Funcom, Gameloft, Havok, Jagex, Rockstar, Sony, UbiSoft and Warner Brothers.

Over the last 15 years we have worked tirelessly to help job seekers find jobs in the world's top video and online games developers, publishers, distributors and retailers. We also work closely with the leading console hardware, accessory and peripheral manufacturers. In addition to console and PC, we have many clients in the smartphone, mobile, casual and serious gaming sectors. Expect us to be talking now to clients bringing you tomorrow's interactive entertainment across all delivery platforms.

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We commit to the highest standards. Interactive Selection was the first recruitment agency specialising in games to join the REC, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, representing nearly 4000 recruiters in the UK. This body represents excellence in recruitment and demonstrates a commitment to high standards of service to both employers and candidates. David Smith is Vice Chairman of the REC's Technology Sector Group.

Interactive Selection is also a proud member of PEER - the first non US recruiter to be invited to join the new trade association of Professional Electronic Entertainment Recruiters which comprises the recruiters worldwide committed to serving better the industry. All PEER members stand by the association's Charter Agreement which demands the highest professional recruiting standards and practice.

Interactive Selection is currently seeking talented recruiters for its Wimbledon UK office.

Games Job Blog / Interactive News / Recruiterblog

Games Industry is now playing with the big boys in the playground.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:43:51 +0000

The games industry has historically suffered the problem that all new industries face which is being taken seriously by national and local government and quasi government institutions that have been built up to serve the existing, long standing industries. The games industry does not fit in nicely to established structures. Yes it is a new industry in the Media sector but it also has a strong technology bias. This [...]

Interactive Selection offer the most experienced Non Executive Directors in Games sector.
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:15:38 +0000

A non executive directorship is an appointment to the board of a company on a part time basis. The work of a non executive director (NED) generally involves making buiness introductions and attending board meetings, with the aim of jump starting the company’s success through the provision of experienced, intelligent advice to the company board, the chairman [...]

Interactive Selection is a proud member of PEER Game Recuiters
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:05:15 +0000

Interactive Selection was the first non US recruiter to be invited to join the trade association of Professional Electronic Entertainment Recruiters (PEER) which comprises the recruiters worldwide committed to serving better the industry. All PEER members stand by the association’s Charter Agreement which demands the highest professional recruiting standards and practices. PEER now has a [...]

Follow Interactive Selection’s jobs immediately as published on new Twitter feed @gamesjobs
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:00:08 +0000

Twitter can give you instant access to the jobs being advertised by Interactive Selection’s clients microseconds after they are published on our jobs database.Why wait to be contacted by your Interactive Selection consultant when you can find about the job – perhaps even ahead of the consultant! No expense has been spared to bring you [...]

Happy Christmas & New Year from Interactive Selection and the Games Job Blog
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:21:24 +0000

Happy Christmas & New Year from David Smith, Adrian Garrick, Cassandra Donnelly, Carrie Eckersley, Aurelie Busollo and Samantha Ambridge at Interactive Selection. The office is manned or should that be “peopled” on normal working days over Christmas.



Over 60000 watch Interactive’s Game Careers and Women in Games Jobs videos on YouTube
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:15:39 +0000

Over 60000 have watched Interactive Selection’s Game Careers and Women in Games Jobs videos on YouTube. You can check the full 140 uploaded videos yourself at http://www.youtube.com/user/interactiveselection Over 20 more interviews were filmed at gamescom 2011 and have been launched on Game Careers and Women in Games Jobs in recent months. The first video on [...]

Games Job Board offers another free trial to game developer advertisers.
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:10:09 +0000

Greetings from Games Job Board – the job board serving the global games and interactive entertainment industry. See http://www.gamesjobboard.com Simply named, it delivers more games jobs in more locations to more job seekers in one of the most exciting industries on the planet. The Job Board is powered by the JobThread engine. JobThread, Inc is privately [...]

Edge Magazine Issue 220 Get Into Games: David Smith, Interactive Selection
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:05:47 +0000

Mentoring prospective students and employees has become something of a free-for-all over recent years, what with publishers, developers and even governments using the latest online channels, among other things, to pick the fruit straight from the tree. Not that it bothers the learned industry recruiter, whose role can extend far beyond the knowledge and self-interest [...]

Follow Games Job Blog / Interactive News / Recruiterblog on Twitter
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:45:07 +0000

You can now follow Games Job Blog / Interactive News / Recruiterblog on Twitter. Our Twitter name is “DavidSmithUK”. Twitterers can subscribe by going to http://twitter.com/davidsmithuk



Learn more about Women in Games Jobs, now a “not for profit” or Community Interest Company.
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:35:47 +0000

Women in Games Jobs was incorporated as a “not for profit” or Community Interest Company under the UK’s Companies Act 2006 on 2 June 2011. Its objects are to recruit more women into the games industry by promoting role models and giving encouragement and information to those women seeking to work in games, and to [...]