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the extraordinary, out of the box things that they do, outside of their regular roles and responsibilities. We recognise the innovators of the year, giving awards to individuals and providing strong benefits for those excelling in their roles.
It's also interesting looking at the employee surveys, in which some of the benefits our employees’ rate the highest are the fun elements of the workplace. If you want to play pool during the day, then go and play and have fun. Go out and have something to eat, play basketball and volleyball - you can work and relax at WMS. Not everyone can work a regular 9-5 job, so we offer flexible hours so that employees with children can spread their time, starting and finishing at different periods of the day. It's something that helps us to attract and retain employees.
WHAT ARE THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS?
These days, most employers offer medical, prescriptions, insurance, savings plans, and et cetera. We do the same, while also offering tuition reimbursement, a wellness programme, personal fitness training, a dry-cleaning service and even pet insurance. There is so much more and we try to offer a wide set of benefit to help all our employees.
WHAT ARE THE PRECONCEPTIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE REGARDING THE GAMING INDUSTRY AND HAS THIS IMAGE CHANGED FROM AN EMPLOYER PERSPECTIVE - ARE YOU ABLE TO ATTRACT THE BEST CANDIDATES 'DESPITE' BEING INVOLVED IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY?
Actually, people are very excited to work with a gaming company - it is a fun job to do. When our employees are asked about their jobs they're proud of the fact that they work in the entertainment industry creating and designing games. Building slot machines is fun and being in gaming helps to attract the best employees, since this industry leverages the latest and greatest technology. Our whole job is about entertaining people, finding ways to excite and entertain, and that's attracting a lot of young creative people to WMS.
WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN WITHIN THE COMPANY?
We value all our employees, and embrace diversity in gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, skills and experience. I’m very proud to report that we have three women on the WMS Executive Committee; myself in addition to General Counsel and the Chief Technology Officer. We also have a Women’s Networking Group, a Diversity & Inclusion Counsel to
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“When our
employees are asked about their jobs they're proud
of the fact that they work in the
entertainment
industry creating and designing games. Building
slot machines is fun and being in
gaming helps to attract the best
employees, since this industry
leverages the latest and greatest
technology. Our
whole job is about entertaining
people, finding ways to excite and
entertain, and that's attracting a lot of young creative
people to WMS.” JANICE RIKE, SVP Human
Resources and Information
Technology, WMS Gaming.
SPARK IS TOOL THAT ALLOWS EMPLOYEES TO
CONTRIBUTE TO OUR CULTURE OF INNOVATION BY SUBMITTING PROPOSALS.
support women within the organization. Truly, we are an equal opportunities employer where anyone can take a position in our organisation. Our affirmative action program affords opportunities for diverse candidates in all our locations – Chicago, Pune, Atlantic City, Stockholm and the rest. A diverse employee base supports our continued growth.
COULD YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE ABOUT THE WMS INITIATIVE SPARK?
Spark is tool that allows employees to contribute to our culture of innovation by submitting proposals for process changes, brands, new products and technologies; it is a web-based forum where proposals are submitted, debated and promoted. To drive momentum, WMS leaders are challenged to solicit input for department. For example, our new Blade cabinet was named by an account executive as a result of a monthly Spark campaign, and currently we are conducting a campaign
to continue to help us progress on our journey of being a world-class employer.
WHAT ARE THE ROLES AND POSITIONS THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO FILL AND THE TYPES OF CANDIDATES AND RESUMES THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE?
WMS has nearly 120 open positions across the globe, from entry level to highly experienced, and we are always looking for game designers and engineers, particularly for our expanding Pune (India) office. That said, we’ve initiated an international recruitment drive to support the growth of Williams Interactive, a WMS subsidiary, and looking for candidates with skills in interactive and online gaming systems.
We look for a range of skills – although we always seek self-motivated individuals with a love of the industry. This is important as you’re going to be spending at least one third of your day at WMS, and we want you to be happy and excited to come to work every day.
WHERE CAN CANDIDATES LEARN ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES WITH WMS?
All of our positions are posted online at
WMS.com in the Careers section, as well as other career sites. We have a robust employee referral programme, which works well as we trust our employees to make recommendations for candidates they know will be an excellent skill and culture fit.
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