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David Smith - Managing Director

Interactive Selection is the market leading search and recruitment company
working only in computer games and interactive entertainment. The company was founded by David Smith in 1996 with an office in London, UK. Interactive Selection enjoys working with the very best of recruiter associates in the USA and now Japan and the Nordic region (Sweden). We do not advertise. Candidates are attracted to the company by reputation and word of mouth.

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, Bioware/Pandemic, Codemasters, Crytek, Disney Interactive, Eidos, Foundation 9, Funcom, Hasbro, Midway, NCSoft, Sony, THQ, UbiSoft, Vivendi Universal Games and Warner Brothers.

Over the last 10 years we have worked tirelessly to help candidates find jobs in the world's top computer and video games developers, publishers, distributors and retailers. We also work closely with the leading console hardware, accessory and peripheral manufacturers.

In recent years new clients have included online and wireless publishers and distributors of digital interactive entertainment products, be they ISPs, games retailers, entertainment and e-commerce portals on the internet, broadband or in cable, satellite, interactive TV or 3G mobile. We also work in both the casual and serious games 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 over 6000 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 IT & Comms 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

Robin Lacey of Plain Sight developer Beatnik Games meets Game Careers
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:18:16 +0000

Robin Lacey met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. Robin Lacey is MD of Beatnik Games with its first title, Plain Sight, launched on 5th of April (Steam etc), Beatnik is also working with Channel 4 and Sony. Robin’s advice for those who would like a career in games: [...]

Rob Precious of middleware technology developer Geomerics talks to Game Careers .BIZ
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:55:51 +0000

Rob Precious met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. Rob is Geomerics Vice President of Sales bringing years of middleware expertise, drawing on positions with companies such as Criterion to drive and develop global sales for Enlighten, Geomerics’ revolutionary real-time lighting technology. His advice for job seekers looking to [...]

Adam Levenson Snr Director Audio and Talent at Activision tells all to Game Careers .BIZ
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:11:29 +0000

Adam Levenson met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. Adam serves as Director of the Central Audio and Talent groups at Activision where he oversees original music, sound effects, post-production, audio technology, voiceovers, celebrity talent, and scriptwriters across Activision portfolio of titles. In addition, he is spearheading the creation [...]

Adam Boyes, former Capcom Product Development head tells all to Game Careers.BIZ
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:37:11 +0000

Adam Boyes met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. He is a 15 year game industry veteran who has specialized in Production and Business Development. He has held positions such as Executive Producer at Midway and most recently he ran the Product Development group at Capcom US. At the [...]

Ricky Haggett of Brit micro developer HoneySlug speaks to Game Careers .BIZ
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:24:43 +0000

Ricky Haggett CEO of HoneySlug met David Smith of Interactive Selection and  Game Careers .BIZ at the Develop conference in Brighton 2010. Honeyslug are a small, North London dev studio who make interesting, original little titles across a number of platforms. Ricky started Honeyslug in 2008 with fellow Morpheme alumni Mark Inman and Nat Marco. [...]

Andrew Dayton a Technical Director Pixar Animation Studio talks to GameGareers.BIZ
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:01:19 +0000

Andrew graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1998. He started working in the industry in commercials as a freelance artist. Later Andrew, worked on feature film intro, music videos, commercials, architectural visualization, medical animation, print. Then he was hired by Black Logic in New York City as a Technical [...]

Serbian finds life changing gaming job in Finland thanks to Interactive Selection
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:57:43 +0000

A further example of the reach of global recruiter, Interactive Selection. A Serbian server programmer has just saved the project of a client in Helsinki, Finland. All thanks to Howard Dee and the Interactive team in London UK. How many UK recruiters do you know who firstly has multiple clients in Finland and secondly can [...]

Dajana Dimovska CEO Copenhagen Game Productions speaks to Game Careers .BIZ
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:59 +0000

Dajana Dimovska is CEO and Producer at Copenhagen Game Productions, currently producing physical spell-duelling game that aims for players to look at each other, rather than at the screen. She is one of the founders of Copenhagen Game Collective, network of game companies, non-commercial projects, and creative individuals with the agenda of developing and promoting [...]

James Brooksby of Kuju studio Double Six speaks to Game Careers .BIZ
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:27:50 +0000

As a graduate with a Masters Degree specialising in Business James joined Kuju in 1995. He was quickly promoted to Project Manager for titles such as Terracide, Halcyon Sun followed by a number of important prototypes and technology experiments that led to several signed titles. He moved on to become Executive Producer, most notably leading [...]

Sharon Price UK Game Producer speaks with Women in Games Jobs
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:57:53 +0000

Sharon Price was a Senior Producer at Outso and was previously a Project Manager at Free Radical Design. She considers herself good at solving problems on the fly, and diffusing crisis situations efficiently and effectively. God of War, COD5 and Tomb Raider help keep her button mashing thumbs ready for action. Sharon met Antonia Cullum [...]