Focus GAMING CAREERS
IN REGARDS TO BURSARIES, TRAINING PROGRAMMES WITHIN LOCAL SCHOOLS/UNIVERSITIES TO ATTRACT/SUPPORT STUDENTS?
We maintain both formal and informal relationships with educational institutions in our local office areas, from public school to university level. Perhaps our most noteworthy partnership is when we partnered with two community colleges in Canada to address a skills shortage of specially-trained Information Technology professionals.
In 2010, we worked with the community colleges to create the Information Technology Gaming Experience Development program, which addresses the growing need for gaming industry professionals with specialised IT skills. We continue to support the two-year program of study by providing paid work terms, hiring pledges, and tuition rebates. We also hired the majority of the first graduating class in our Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada office, and we’re welcoming currents students for their work placements. This program has been so successful that we recently announced a new industry partner and increased class sizes.
WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF NOT JUST CANDIDATES, BUT OF YOUR EMPLOYEES? HOW DO YOU ASSESS YOUR STAFF?
There are a number of qualities that we look for in current and prospective employees, including:
• Professionalism and Motivation – up- to-date knowledge and the capability to apply this knowledge,
• Responsibility and Integrity – results within set timeframe; ownership of duties/tasks and accountability,
• Commitment – to personal and Company targets and objectives,
• Trust and Respect – for both internal colleagues and external customers,
• Team Work – collaboration and innovation are required in all roles,
• Communication – a must, particularly as we work internationally.
We look for evidence of the foregoing list of “soft skills” in all our candidates, whether they’re applying for a game development or a quality assurance post, or anything in between. Additionally, as you would expect, we also look for technical, job-specific skills relevant to that particular role.
Assessment is carried out on an on-going basis, with formal reviews mid-year as well as at year end. The scheduled reviews allow employees to assess where they’ve excelled in the preceding months, and also to set stretch goals for the upcoming year. Those who meet and exceed their agreed performance goals are eligible for wage increases and/or bonus payments.
HOW DO YOU ATTRACT AND RETAIN THE BEST STAFF?
SPIELO International offers exciting and dynamic careers in the gaming industry. With offices located around the world and opportunities in diverse fields, there’s a variety of fun and challenging roles for motivated people. We offer an excellent package of benefits and perquisites to retain the excellent people that we hire (see next question for details).
In all of our global offices, we use a variety of techniques to find those star employees, such as: social media recruitment initiatives (LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter); increased engagement with local and national educational institutions; increased bonus awards; newly launched employee referral program (offering cash rewards to employees who recommend successful candidates); encouraging upward mobility and additional opportunities for successful employees; offering work/life balance, employee events, continuing education and all the other benefits available at SPIELO International.
THOSE WHO MEET AND EXCEED
THEIR AGREED PERFORMANCE GOALS ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR
WAGE INCREASES AND/OR BONUSES.
Other techniques that have been successfully used by some of our offices include: involvement with government organisations and NGOs to potentially place referred candidates; specialised career fairs and advertising focused towards the technology sector, both local and offshore; support of local user groups and technological interest groups; and participation in and sponsorship of local events.
As collaboration is important to us, we are sharing best practices to implement these strategies across all of our office
CATEGORIES: Large Companies (250+ employees) COMPANY TITLE: SPIELO International COMPANY FOUNDED: 1990 PRIVATE OR PLC: PLC. SPIELO International is 100 percent owned by Lottomatica Group, which is traded on the Italian stock exchange as LTO. EMPLOYEE NUMBERS: 2,100+ HQ AND INTERNATIONAL OFFICES: Major offices located in Belgrade, Serbia; Gibraltar; Graz, Austria; Hyderabad, India; Las Vegas, Nevada; Lima, Peru; London, UK; Luebbecke, Germany; Monaco; Moncton, Canada; Rome, Italy; Stockholm, Sweden; Warsaw, Poland; and Växjö, Sweden SUBSIDIARIES: None. AREAS OF BUSINESS: SPIELO International is a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of top- performing games, cabinets, central systems and associated software for legal gaming markets around the world. It offers a complete range of end-to-end gaming products for diverse gaming segments, including distributed government-sponsored markets, commercial casino markets, Amusement with Prize (AWP) markets, and interactive and sports betting markets. ANNUAL MACHINE PRODUCTION BY VOLUME: 20,000+ gaming machines in 2012; similar volumes planned for 2013 REBUILDS/CONVERSIONS IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS: less than 1,000 PRODUCTION FACILITIES SQ.M/SQ.FT: 34,000sq.ft /3,100sq.m CORPORATE WEBSITE:
www.spielo.com BEST-SELLING PRODUCT OF 2012: For International Casino our diversity multigame with its numerous game suites has been the best selling product across Europe, South Africa, and Latin America. In Casino Systems,
CRYSTAL.net floor network platform with its wide range of modular GALAXIS applications, providing end-to-end solutions for casino
operations, has been very popular. Furthermore, we’ve experienced increased demand for our SYSTEM2Go packaged on-line slot floor management solution for smaller, multi-site slot floors and slot halls. CEO AND MANAGEMENT TEAM: CEO: Walter Bugno, Bob Arena, Deputy General Counsel, William Scott, VP Commerical Operations, Lavaz Watson, VP & CFO SPIELO International, Robert Jones, VP & General Counsel, Rachel Barber, CTO SPIELO International, Don Doucet, VP Business Strategy & Developement, Sylvia Dietz, Sr. Director Global Marketing, Brendan Linden, CTO G2. 2011 REVENUE: €279million
“SPIELO
International offers exciting and
dynamic careers in the gaming industry. With offices located
around the world
and opportunities in diverse fields,
there’s a variety of
fun and challenging roles for motivated people.”
PAUL ROWAN, Vice-President of Human Resources
and Organisational Development,
SPIELO International.
locations. Additionally, we often route candidates from one office to our other locations: careers are grown on a global basis.
WHAT ARE THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND PERKS OF WORKING FOR SPIELO INTERNATIONAL?
We’re happy to shout about the many benefits of working for SPIELO International, which includes company- wide initiatives as well as location-specific perks. To name a few:
• Industry-competitive salaries • Eligibility for extended group benefits • Employment equity and workplace February 2013 PAGE 79
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