Do you think your skills in management games like Football Manager skills make you better at organisation? Does your immaculately-designed Stardew Valley farm indicate your creative solutions to organisational problems? The folks at Game Academy believe that the answer to those questions is 'yes', and the programme aims to help you transfer your gaming skills into a proper career.
Game Academy is built by people who love games and have careers in teaching, HR, and data science, and who want to bring those worlds together to help fill the world's digital skills shortage. Next year, Game Academy aims to begin direct partnerships with employers and build its own educational credentials.
For now, the programme offers an analysis of your gaming behaviour for career-relevant skills, and provides a set of its own challenges to help you hone those skills for the workplace, then recommends a selection of job and education opportunities matching your strengths. The system is built on analysis of over 50,000 players and their careers.
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