Recruiter, Early Careers

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance, and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity, and rigot to enhance employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB

This is a contingent worker position and will be staffed through Volt, a staffing and workforce management company. Length of contract is 4-6 months with potential for extension.

Your Mission

Activision, Blizzard and King’s Early Career program was established to develop meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with schools and universities, which allows us to identify and foster talent to meet our ever-growing hiring needs. The Early Careers Recruiter is responsible for facilitating a variety of programs to promote and enhance Activision’s campus visibility with university departments, career centers, and student organizations, as well as recruiting early career talent into the company.

This role is anticipated to be assigned to work on-site at an Activision Blizzard office.  However, we understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

• Spearhead the full cycle recruitment process for summer internship positions across development studios and commercial functions
• Serve as main information resource for potential interns and new grads throughout the interviewing process -- communicate status, answer questions, schedule start dates, and coordinate all follow-up efforts.
• Utilize data to help business functions determine internship hiring needs each summer
• Maintain campus plans for each of Activision Blizzard’s identified schools and maintain a list of other important institutions in with goals, contacts, and high-level plans for each one.
• Plan, organize, and execute various major campus recruiting events including presentations, receptions, club events, and interviews.
• Manage the candidate workflow and communication in Workday Recruit for early career specific candidates.
• Act as ambassador of our team’s vision and goals.

Player Profile

• 2+ years of previous experience in art recruiting, campus recruiting, or campus admissions for an art school.
• Experience establishing and organizing relationship programs with universities or other institutions of higher learning
• An understanding of university processes and familiarity with university administration, including constraints on faculty and students
• A strong teamwork ethic; this position will involve substantial coordination and collaboration with many different departments and stakeholders
• Able to communicate effectively and to represent Activision, Blizzard, and King positively on campus and with all parts of the academic population
• Attention to detail and utilizes data to drive decisions around processes
• Strong customer service skills and experience coordinating events from 30 to 500 attendees
• Experience using applicant tracking systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to travel 15% of the year with most travel being August - December

Pluses

• Experience in the video game or entertainment industry
• Experience hiring for creative facing positions like 3D art, animation, VFX, etc…

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics