| Most gamers dream about being video game | | | | Let's explore the first option. The first thing you |
| testers. After all, who wouldn't want to get paid | | | | should do is bookmark all the major games |
| to do something that they enjoy doing. Must | | | | publishes career websites. Everyone you can find, |
| people hate getting up every morning to go to a | | | | From EA through to Blizzard. If you regularly |
| job they find boring. But most people have no real | | | | check these, you may get lucky and find a |
| idea about what a video game tester does every | | | | games tester vacancy. Once you have done this, |
| day, and how to become one. Games Publishers | | | | you should start searching for gaming industry job |
| need testers to ensure that their finished | | | | sites, where gaming related vacancies from many |
| products are released without bugs and glitches. If | | | | different companies are displayed. You could also |
| a game has too many bugs and glitches, then it | | | | phone companies and send off speculative |
| will get bad reviews and publicity from the gaming | | | | resumes, so that if they do have vacancies, they |
| community, and this can mean a serious loss of | | | | will contact you. If you are lucky enough to find a |
| sales and income. Therefore games publishers are | | | | vacancy, and obtain an interview, you should |
| happy to employ video game testers to keep the | | | | ensure that you have researched what to expect |
| amount of bugs and glitches in their products | | | | from Video Game Tester related websites, as |
| down to a bare minimum. | | | | preparation is the key to success. |
| There are many websites and products on the | | | | The second method is to get someone else to do |
| market that will promise to assist you in getting a | | | | all the legwork for you, somebody with contacts |
| job as a game tester, but many of these are | | | | in the games industry. You can pay a one off fee |
| bogus, or just not worth the money. If you want | | | | and gain access to a database of video game |
| to become a video game tester there are two | | | | tester job vacancies. The good thing about these |
| options open to you. Firstly you can search for | | | | databases is that you will also be emailed when |
| job vacancies yourself, searching the internet, | | | | new vacancies arise. Be careful though as many |
| making speculative phone calls to games | | | | are not worth the money, only use one that has |
| publishers, and sending out speculative resumes. | | | | received good reviews. |
| Secondly, you can pay to join a database of | | | | If you put in some time (or invest some money |
| video game tester job vacancies, where you can | | | | getting someone else to do it for you) then there |
| log in an immediately view vacancies, and have | | | | is no reason why you too can't be getting paid to |
| access to advice and information on the | | | | test all the new games releases. Just make sure |
| interviews you will receive. | | | | you do your homework before applying.... |