I have been selected as an intern and the position that I am in is in data analyst.
One thing that hurts me is that I am selected as an intern instead of being selected as a permanent employee after having gotten four years of work experience in the game industry serving as both a game designer and a game tester.
So the thing that I want to know is how relevant is data analyst position in the game industry and whether being an intern instead of full time is a good or a bad thing?
CaptainVG said:
how relevant is data analyst position in the game industry
Very relevant.
CaptainVG said:
whether being an intern instead of full time is a good or a bad thing?
It's a possible entry to full-time employment. Look at it as a trial period. They need to get to know you and you need to get to know them.
@Tom Sloper Can you please give me some examples of how data analysis is relevant just to my understanding of things?
Tom Sloper said:
It's a possible entry to full-time employment. Look at it as a trial period. They need to get to know you and you need to get to know them.
But in that case, why can't it be a probation period instead of the internship? Since both have the same principle of getting to know the employee before they make a call of whether or not to keep him/her right?
CaptainVG said:
why can't it be a probation period instead of the internship?
Nobody said it can't. Don't ask the wrong questions. And don't give up good opportunities “in the hand” for possible/potential opportunities you don't possess “in the bush." (The old “bird in the hand” saying.)
It's understandable to wish that your current position was probationary instead of an internship. But the internship was offered, and the probationary employment was not. I don't know the reasons. None of us here knows the reasons. Stay in the current opportunity or don't. It's your decision alone. But use smart criteria for your decision. My recommendation is stick with it, do your best work, and see where it goes.
CaptainVG said:
Ok…but how exactly relevant is data analyst in the game industry?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=video+game+analytics
GeneralJist said:
I assume this is 4 years of contract? At the same company?
So “four years of work experience in the game industry serving as both a game designer and a game tester,” was that at the same company as the internship? I've been assuming the internship is with a different (non-game) company.
Or is the question whether the game design work and tester work were both at one company? I've been assuming they were.
The way I read it was it was all with teh same company?
Either way, maybe the OP should focus on what he has, vs on what he doesn't have.
FTE is always better but it comes with more responsibility.
GeneralJist said:
Either way, maybe the OP should focus on what he has, vs on what he doesn't have/
I agree with that.
