Employment Resources

We have found the following employment resources to be very useful in breaking into the video game industry and landing your first (or 2nd, or 10th) video game testing job. While we have endeavored to provide a good basic outline on how to break into the industry with this website, to gain the nitty-gritty details of which companies to apply to for specific types of games and platforms, as well as exclusive industry contact and hiring information, we highly recommend the following services and employment guides:

Only4Gamers

Only4Gamers is a lifetime membership website that provides both a downloadable guide as well as live information on the members website that is updated weekly. There are no renewal fees; once you are a member, you are a member for life.

The fundamentals of becoming a video game tester are covered in the downloadable guide. This guide is one of the few decent ones available, in that it covers precisely what you need to know to break into the field.

Where Only4Gamers really proves itself to be one of the real gems in game tester guides and websites is that in the members only section of the website, there are several mini courses that will guide you step by step through the process of landing your first game testing job.

As well, in order to help you understand the big picture, a Flowchart is provided to members that summarizes the content of the mini courses and allows users to visualize instantly the steps and the sequences you need to take in order to land your first job.

Active game testing job listings are available to members - an updated list of active jobs is provided to members on a daily basis of specific game testing jobs that you can apply for. At any given time, there are over 100 jobs posted, with up to 20 new jobs added on a weekly basis.

Additionally, members have access to current game company employment pages, providing contact information to dozens of companies actively recruiting game testers. This is updated weekly as well.

Finally, several bonuses are included as part of your membership, such as cheats, codes, video game discounts and a guide on how to actually test video games.

Guarantee

Only4Gamers comes with an 8 week, unconditional money back guarantee.

Summary

Only4Gamers provides excellent quality and value. It is both a guide and a membership website, providing the knowledge on how to break into the industry along with current job listings and company employment information. Membership is, for now, for life, but with the increasing popularity of the website, it is possible that Only4Gamers will be forced to begin charging a monthly fee to new members. Existing members would of course be exempt from this, so now is definitely the time to join if your are at all interested in the help Only4Gamers can provide in landing a video game testing job.

Gamer Testing Ground

Gamer Testing Ground is a members-only website. Subscriptions range from 6 to 24 months. The information at Gamer Testing Ground is updated on a regular basis, ensuring that all of their employment resources and contacts are current.




Just some of the features Gamer Testing Ground includes are:

• Resume Building for Video Game Testers
• Companies that are currently hiring Video Game Testers
• Active Job Listings
• Learning how to let the companies find you

Based on the advanced features as well as user feedback, Gamer Testing Ground is one of our preferred video game testing employment resources.

Guarantee

Gamer Testing Ground comes with an 8 week, unconditional money back guarantee.

Beta Gaming Tester

There are a lot of guides and websites on the Internet that promise an easy route to becoming a professional game tester. The Beta Gaming Tester Guide is not one of them. The author, well known video game testing professional T Dub Sanders, doesn’t mince words or tell you it’s an easy process - if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. What this guide does offer is the truth about the industry, and how to break into it. It is incredibly adept at presenting a route that nearly anyone can follow if they are really serious about getting a job in this field.

Video game testing is a real career with a lot of competition. When it comes to finding out how to actually become a game tester, you need a guide that is going to be realistic about what the field requires of game testers. What a guide should NOT do is tell you that the process is easy and could be done by nearly anyone.

That is where this guide excels where so many others fail:

- It showcases the actual steps and the path to really getting ahead.

- It shows every possible path to getting the job along with the skills you’ll need.

- It exposes the myths of the career that most people harbor up until the day they start working in it.

Anyone truly serious about making a run for a game testing career should be reading the Beta Gaming Tester Guide . It will show you exactly how to break into the field, the pitfalls to avoid, and how to advance in the most rapid fashion possible. Highly recommended.

Guarantee

Beta Gaming Tester comes with an 8 week, unconditional money back guarantee.

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