Cover Letter For Game Developer: Fill & Download for Free

First you make sure you have a portfolio worthy of an internship. Ask a teacher to review it first, or a program director, or really anyone at your school with real game development experience.Write a résumé and a prototype cover letter. You are going to want to customize your cover letter for whomever you send it to, but figure out the bulk of it first.Then talk to your schools career services. If your school doesn't have career services you might be at the wrong school.If that doesn't work then go to game developer meetups in your area, bring your portfolio, and hopefully something playable even if it is just a rough proto, or a card game even.Skills + Playable/Portfolio + Networking = Job

Let me tell you about a very recent experience as a hiring manager. We advertised a software developer position and received 130 applications in four days. That’s probably the highest rate of applications in my six+ years as a hiring manager. So far so good. In the job description, we clearly said “If you don’t submit a cover letter, we will not look at your resume” in bold at the very end. Guess how many of those 130 applicants submitted a cover letter? Barely half of them. So of the 130 well-qualified, bachelors and masters degree holding candidates, less than half did not read the job description or cared enough to follow the key requirement in the job! So theoretically if someone submitted a resume and an empty cover letter they would be in the 50th percentile of the candidates. Within those 65, we could weed out 30+ because of utterly horrible grammar or half-hearted recitals of their resumes. In fact there was one candidate who quite obviously started from a template where she searched & replaced the company name. The templated cover letter was pretty compelling but she missed one the of the occurrences of the company name so a different company name showed up in our job’s cover letter :) . A grave, unrecoverable mistake by any standard, but I decided to take her to the next stage of the interview process because of the effort she put into preparing the template and doing the search-replace!Our company talent team and I thank these 95+ applicants for making our job easy and literally screening themselves out, but we are not going to take you to the next stage. Sorry! Attention-to-detail is a key skill and no matter what other super-powers you have, all of them will be negated at this early stage of the screening game. Now, I am pretty sure that we may in fact have screened out a couple of super-hero candidates in the process but we are OK with that.

If you are a developer with experience I think it will be rather easy for you to find work. Depending on your specific experience will determine which companies you apply to and for what position. I recommend you apply for junior or low level programming positions. That will show that you realise your experience to date may not be relevant and that you want to learn about gamesWrite a cover letter for the company you want to work at, be specific about why you want to work with them and why you think you'll fit in at their company and with the kinds of games they make.Most game companies care about three things when they hire:you can do good workyou are passionate about gamesyou are fun to hang out withShow them you have those qualities. Some other important factors:I trecommend you stay away from head hunters or recruitersgame demos will help, make something to show themgo to game developers meet ups and conventions if you have the in your areaGood luck!