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For game studios
We are a video game industry specialist recruiter. We specialise in providing fast, flexible, and founder-friendly hiring solutions specifically for indie and mid-size game studios.
We help teams protect their culture and stay lean by providing recruitment services that enable them to build a quality core team and the flexibility to scale up and down quickly through our curated pool of specialist contractors.
Our retained search service includes current data-driven insights on salary ranges, competitor talent, and candidate motivations.
All our retained clients have access to their own portal. The portal shows all recruitment projects we are working on, and within a project, you have access to all profiles we are reaching out to, why we think they are a good fit, all interview reports and feedback from candidates. It gives tangible data that we can use to adjust strategy in case of a difficult-to-fill position
Yes, our temporary and contractor recruitment service is designed for agility, allowing you to scale up or down based on project milestones or peak periods.
Our inhouse can cover different things. For a studio with no or limited recruitment power, we can take full ownership of everything talent acquisition-related or click on to their team of recruiters to provide extra manpower.
Other recruiting projects we regularly do are salary benchmarking, ATS research and implementations, optimise candidate journeys, to name a few.
Other recruiting projects we regularly do are salary benchmarking, ATS research and implementations, optimise candidate journeys, to name a few.
Yes, we offer reduced fees across several of our service models.
It offers priority focus where your role becomes a top priority with dedicated resources and proactive engagement of "hidden" passive talent. Additionally, you will get 24/7 access to your client portal, in which you see all preselected candidates that are in process, including access to all interview reports, feedback and recommendations.
For Contingent Search, we submit two profiles within 5 working days. For Contractor roles, initial profiles are submitted within 3 working days.
As part of our Inhouse Services, we help position your organisation as an "employer of choice" to attract top talent. For our external services, we are very much aware that we are indirectly also representing your studio when reaching out and when we are in our communication with candidates.
We work with indie and midsize studios and publishers from all over the world.
For talent
We work with prominent and mid-size indie studios such as Monster Couch, Total Mayhem Games, Spark Universe, Abstraction, and Drest, among others.
We provide clients with a fully vetted profile that includes your CV, portfolio and a detailed interview report.
We prioritise a process where we brief candidates on the studio, project and team, after which they can decide if they want to pursue the opportunity. After doing the introduction to the studios, we keep in close contact throughout every stage of the hiring journey.
Yes, we have a rapid deployment system for pre-vetted freelance and contract professionals.
Our proactive engagement strategy often connects high-calibre candidates with roles that are not yet on the active job market.
Yes, our team works across all time zones and countries to connect talent with studios and publishers.
We constantly look for talent for current and future roles through our proactive talent acquisition processes. So feel free to reach out directly on LinkedIn or through our contact form on our website
Yes, we ensure the complete hiring process goes smoothly and moves at the right pace for all involved.
Feel free to reach out directly on LinkedIn or through our contact form on our website.
Our services
We offer Retained Search, Contingent Search, Temporary and Contractor Recruitment, Executive Search and Inhouse Services.
We have fixed flat fees per seniority level. Please reach out to us via the contact form, and we’ll email you our pricing.
It is a split fee: 1/3 on Go Ahead, 1/3 on Contract Sign, and 1/3 after the probation period.
It is a split fee: 1/2 on Contract Sign and 1/2 after the probation period.
We have fixed monthly rates. Please reach out to us via the contact form, and we’ll email you our pricing.
Yes, there is an initial period of 3 months.
Our fees are based on the contractor's daily rate. For our complete pricing, please contact us via our contact form.
You receive full access to all StrideQuest recruitment tools and our internal candidate database.
Our retained executive search is recommended for executive roles.
It is best for generic hiring with standard requirements, where you only want to pay upon a successful placement.