Train2Game Student Placement Information

Philosophy: Offering work experience to students in their specialist industry is a fundamental part of any learning process and is a key feature of the Train2Game blended learning courses. With the high standard of work required in todays Games industry , together with the margin for error becoming so narrow, Train2Games work placements are limited to our most gifted students (minimum assessment criteria of +88%). This program is unique to Train2Game and is not offered by any other UK learning institution. The Train2Game Student Placement Scheme operates across the full range of current Train2Game courses: Artist & Animator, Developer (programming) and Designer. A key feature of the program and major advantage to the studio is that the placement scheme is a funded Placement program by Train2Game. The Train2Game Student Placement Scheme covers England, Scotland, Channel Islands, Wales and Northern Ireland. Placements can range for periods of between 2 and 6 months. The scheme is publicised to all Train2Game students and is intended as an extracurricular activity that will help bolster the students knowledge base by applying their learning in a realworld industry based environment. All Train2Game Students on placement under this scheme receive a funding of 1,000 per calendar monthame and

Enquiries re the Train2Game Student Placement Program should be referred to any of the following personnel: Carri Cunliffe: carri.cunliffe@codeworks.net or 0191 490 9141 or 07881 833 443 Elspeth Lawson: elspeth.lawson@codeworks.net or 0191 490 9156 or 07889 917 072 Student Placement Selection All student placements are selected using the following minimum criteria: 1. The student must be an enrolled Train2Game student. 2. All placement students must have attained an average TMA (assessment scores) of 88% (in one pass) or better. 3. The student must be available for a minimum of 2 months on a full time basis and must be prepared to work a normal 37.5 hour working week. 4. The student must be prepared to relocate or live suitably close to commute to the host company. 5. The student must satisfy Train2Game at interview that he or she is capable of performing the role as required by the host studio. 6. The students skill set must satisfy the host studio requirements and have a suitable CV and portfolio for review by the studio during interview. Student placement Offer Having interviewed the student/s if you feel the candidate is suitable. We will contact the student and make them an offer on your behalf. We will facilitate start dates, help with accommodation, travel etc. The remuneration for each student is 1000 per calendar month. 600.00 per month will be met by Train2Game as a contribution towards the students accommodation and bursary, we ask that you pay 100.00 per week towards the students subsistence. Train2Game have a significant database of highly talented students studying with them. We are confident through having

There are approximately 141 development studios in the UK, Train2Game would like to work with as many of these studios as it can to develop home grown talent thereby stemming the brain-drain currently rife with the UK games development community.

As a UK Games Development Studio, we have contacted you with a view to getting you involved in the Train2Game placement program. It may also be that you have contacted us, or one of our Train2Game students has created an opportunity for a placement and has brought us together. All of these means of contact are acceptable and can kick start the process for a Train2Game funded placement student.

If having met and discussed the opportunity your studio chooses to move forward, we will need to approve your studio as suitable for placement students by asking a few basic questions, primarily based around health and safety at work, a risk assessment and planned tasks for the student whilst on placement, we can discuss this in more depth if you choose to progress further but the core of the approval process is based around our duty of care to the student and the relevance of the placement to his or her ongoing education, principally: Health and safety at work and risk assessment - Employers liability insurance/reasonable procedures/staff handbook/working environment Work placement tasking - Relevant work to the students ongoing education/good mentoring structure

Once your studio is approved, we will ask you to supply, a simple skills and abilities requirement (a job spec) relating to each of the placement positions being considered (you can ask for up to 3 placements) if need be we can work through this with you and propose a spec that you can sign off. On receiving your requirements list we will: Upload the information to our student database so as to search all available students in the locale with the requisite skills (the Train2Game blended learning courses, in total have over 4000 students enrolled). We will fine-tune the list of candidates using Train2Game Tutors knowledge of the identified students and Games industry experts who will review the students work to date including portfolio content. The object being to distil the list down to one or two individuals per role. Once we have identified what we believe to be the final candidates, we will arrange face to face meetings with the student/s directly. During this meeting, we will fully evaluate the individual and their applicability to the role. If we are satisfied that the student is capable of performing in the role you have identified, we will put the student forward for an interview with your studio contact. During the process of candidate identification, we will send you a placement pack that contains all of the relevant information for your studio and the student placement together with docs that will need completing by both you and ultimately the student prior to placement (insurance confirmation, working hours, etc)

We hope this information is of help and that you will consider working with us to help develop more UK games talent. The Train2Game placement program is majority funded by T2G, its a great, low/no risk way of realising resource for those pitches and speculative projects that you want to kick off but cant justify in these difficult times Any enquiries you may have re the Train2Game Student Placement Program, please do not hesitate to contact d be referred to Carri Cunliffe or Elspeth Lawson; carri.cunliffe@codeoworks.net or 07881 833 443 elspeth.lawson@codeworks.net or 07889 170 752

several current placements at our own studio and others that the ability and skills level will meet your needs. Logistics From request for a placement to getting a student onsite takes us approximately 1 month; background work in evaluation of the brief and making sure the student/s we put forward for your consideration are right for the role. Train2Game has a duty of care to its student base thus it is a requirement that all placement roles will contribute to the development of the students skill set. The Student placement whilst in your employ should be treated as any other individual employee in your company all payments made should be considered as part of payroll taxed accordingly If the studio feels the placement, for whatever reason is not working, the placement can be cancelled at any time Payment of all costs is via invoice in advance monthly, to cover any shortfall you may have, Train2Game will pay you 600.00 per month in advance on receipt of an invoice from you. Train2Game staff will be available to support both the Student placement needs and your own as it relates to the student placement program. Each week we will contact you to check that all is as it should be. The student will be required to write a student diary weekly, this dairy will respect any confidentiality requirements of the studio and can be reviewed and edited by the studio at any time Document compiled courtesy of http://www.gamehorizon.net For more information please visit the relevant Train2Game page here: http://www.gamehorizon.net/train2game -student-placement-information