{"id":1918,"date":"2012-05-28T19:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2012-05-28T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:39:16","slug":"looking-for-a-games-industry-job-in-uk-with-enthusiasm-but-little-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/28\/looking-for-a-games-industry-job-in-uk-with-enthusiasm-but-little-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a games industry job in UK, with enthusiasm but little experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How about this one:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/sainsburys.jobs\/vacancy\/details\/35959\/games-buyer-at-london<\/a><\/p>\n

A “buyer” for Sainsburys: you get to influence the titles stocked by one of the UK’s biggest retailers. I’ve never – ever! – met a games-buyer before, but I know quite a few buyers for more mainstream areas (clothing, fashion, etc), and so long as you’re organized and diligent, it sounds like a good job. You spend a lot of time dealing with the ebb and flow of what the public are actually buying – surely, very good practice for a career in design or publishing.<\/p>\n

And yet, as I said … I’ve never met one before. Strange, that.<\/p>\n

EDIT: and here’s another one, for Argos: https:\/\/www.apointplus.com\/homeretailgroup\/applicant\/apps1.aspx?id=4129&rm=184<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How about this one: http:\/\/sainsburys.jobs\/vacancy\/details\/35959\/games-buyer-at-london A “buyer” for Sainsburys: you get to influence the titles stocked by one of the UK’s biggest retailers. I’ve never – ever! – met a games-buyer before, but I know quite a few buyers for more mainstream areas (clothing, fashion, etc), and so long as you’re organized and diligent, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}