D&D 5E Wizards is hiring a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons

[billd91]

I truly wonder at the state of WOTC and their hiring practices/standards that they have to do an open call like this. What, precisely, is the management team at WOTC looking for in said senior designer? The fact they can't fill this position internally and choose a cattle call speaks volumes to me.

Can't fill it internally draws criticism from some groups. Too strong a tendency to fill internally draws criticisms from others.

 

[Vince_Snetterton]

Requiring a Liberal Art's bachelor's degree is obscene. There is no justification for that requirement nothing in that job that can't be done by someone without one.

It's just another attack on regular folks, a reminder we aren't one of them or their equals as far as they are concerned.

Too many jobs ask for post secondary education that don't actually NEED that level of education as is, which is causing all kinds of problems.

It should be law that for an employer to require or semirequire university education they have to provide justification as to way someone without it can't do that job, like yeah a surgeon obviously needs it, but many jobs don't.

I am sure, that with enough practice, I can perform brain surgery, without that silly 10 years of medical training.

 

[Parmandur]

They're probably looking for an education that exercised and developed their applicants' writing skills. Most high school education doesn't do that enough. So an obscene requirement? Not in the slightest.

Yeah, they are looking for someone to head a 256-320 page book in a year, from conception to writing to editing to art orders to layout. Those are B.A. skills. And they want numeracy, to boot!

 

[RangerWickett]

Requiring a Liberal Art's bachelor's degree is obscene. There is no justification for that requirement nothing in that job that can't be done by someone without one.

It's just another attack on regular folks, a reminder we aren't one of them or their equals as far as they are concerned.

Too many jobs ask for post secondary education that don't actually NEED that level of education as is, which is causing all kinds of problems.

It should be law that for an employer to require or semirequire university education they have to provide justification as to way someone without it can't do that job, like yeah a surgeon obviously needs it, but many jobs don't.

As ever, job qualification listings are often recommendations, not really hard requirements. Having a liberal arts bachelor's degree is a quick way to show that you have spent time learning how to do the sort of writing that would be expected as a baseline for this kind of job. But I'm sure if someone who had not gotten a degree like that could show evidence that they had the same skill set, they would be able to apply.

Also, I am a little put off by the phrasing of people with out college degrees as being 'regular' people. I don't see that there is a normal or abnormal here. It splits pretty even. It's just different education paths. Not going to college doesn't make someone somehow more legitimate, or vice versa.

 

[Vince_Snetterton]

Can't fill it internally draws criticism from some groups. Too strong a tendency to fill internally draws criticisms from others.

Who are these "others"? What is their agenda?

 

[Parmandur]

I truly wonder at the state of WOTC and their hiring practices/standards that they have to do an open call like this. What, precisely, is the management team at WOTC looking for in said senior designer? The fact they can't fill this position internally and choose a cattle call speaks volumes to me.

In the past, for the same position, they have hired internally and from contractors working with them.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

As ever, job qualification listings are often recommendations, not really hard requirements. Having a liberal arts bachelor's degree is a quick way to show that you have spent time learning how to do the sort of writing that would be expected as a baseline for this kind of job. But I'm sure if someone who had not gotten a degree like that could show evidence that they had the same skill set, they would be able to apply.

It should be part of the listing period, it's not needed for the job, it should be there at all, the message to the none university educated is clear, we're not wanted.

 

[bedir than]

I truly wonder at the state of WOTC and their hiring practices/standards that they have to do an open call like this. What, precisely, is the management team at WOTC looking for in said senior designer? The fact they can't fill this position internally and choose a cattle call speaks volumes to me.

There are job-listing requirements (i think state, maybe federal?) that basically mean that every open job for companies of a certain size must be on a public forum. Those requirements are something like 3 business days, and if you see a gig go up and disappear that means there was an internal candidate.

But you'll even see major sports teams list jobs for VP of Sports Sciences on their website. That doesn't mean that they are desperate or that they have an internal failure.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, they are looking for someone to head a 256-320 page book in a year, from conception to writing to editing to art orders to layout. Those are B.A. skills. And they want numeracy, to boot!

Those are skills that don't require a degree.

 

[Parmandur]

Those are skills that don't require a degree.

They require a lot of work and training, the best way to demonstrate such being a degree.

Degrees matter, particularly for skilled fields like book production and game design.