Career Services

Career Services Department is a division of Student Services, which is known for its team-oriented work environment. We provide opportunities for exploring your career growth/potential, sponsor many companies to speak to our graduating students and host an Annual Career Day. Students graduating from DigiPen are given the opportunity to be a part of a school that maintains rigorous admission standards.

If you are looking for assistance in jump-starting your career the Career Services Department is the place for you!

Resume and cover letter writing web sites

• Career Zone - This web site is based in New York but has many great features - cover letter tips, resume writing, etc.
• Riley Guide

Statistics on Salaries

• U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Finding a job/internships

• DigiPen post the latest position announcements (contract, full-time or internship opportunities) as we receiving information form companies on Interfase Myinterfase-student
• Game Career Guide
• Gamasutra

Events

• DigiPen hosts an Annual Career Day where students present to prospective employers and companies their portfolio and projects that they have worked on. This year our Annual Career Day is March 7, 2008. For further information please contact careerservices(at)digipen(dot)edu
• The Career Services department hosts Company Days where a company presents to students information about their company.

Posting a job/internships

• DigiPen provides opportunities for companies and their representatives to post the latest position announcements (contract, full-time or internship opportunities) and search the database of students seeking employment. Please go to the following address to use our new database - Myinterfase-employer

Testimonials

"DigiPen is, bar none, the first choice for Airtight Games in recruiting out of school talent. The training they receive is rigorous and fully applicable to the industry they are entering."

-Matt Brunner, Art Director at Airtight Games.

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"The DigiPen curriculum is well designed in addressing specific needs of game development companies. ArenaNet has had a high success rate in hiring DigiPen graduates. Some of our most talented and promising programmers have graduated from DigiPen."

-Stephan Shepard, HR Manager at ArenaNet.

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“Hiring DigiPen grads has worked out great for Volition. The students who emerge from DigiPen have a level of familiarity with video game programming that you don't often see in grads from traditional computer science programs. There's much less risk in hiring a DigiPen grad, because we know they've worked on console hardware, they've worked in teams, and they've actually built games, so there's no question that they're going to be able to hit the ground running when they start with us, and will have a positive impact from the first week.”

-Kevin Fanning, Recruiting Coordinator @ Volition Inc

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Companies that have hired DigiPen graduates

• Amaze Entertainment
• Sony Online Entertainment
• ArenaNet
• Airtight games
• Monolith
• Bottomless Pit Games
• Microsoft
• Volition
• Snowblind Studios
• Sierra Online Entertainment
• Big Huge Games
• Gas Powered Games
• Petraglyph
• Handheld Games
• Disney Online
• Wizards of the Coast
• Activision
• THQ
• Surreal
• Electronic Arts

Contact information for the Career Services Department - careerservices(at)digipen(dot)edu