Kraig Docherty

Current

• Director of Talent Strategy & Acquisition at Blue Castle Games

Past

• Senior Manager/Director, Global Talent Acquisition at Vivendi Games
• Talent Agent, Global Talent Acquisition via Global Staffing at Blizzard Entertainment
• Senior Manager, Global Talent Acquisition via Global Staffing at Vivendi Games

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Kraig Docherty’s Summary

A recruiting professional with 10+ years of overall experience in talent acquisition, talent management and building worldwide recruitment organizations and strategies. This experience has primarily been within the video game and IT industries.

---> For the last 4 years, my experience has been focused within the games industry. This has included recruiting for such roles as: Executives (COO/Finance/Legal), Producers, Project Managers, Software Engineers at all levels and Art/Creative/Design & Animation professionals
---> These studios and teams focused on developing MMORPG, RTS, Casual/mid-session online games, mobile, open world, first/third person shooters, Sports and Action oriented titles for both licensed and original IP.
---> Have assembled multiple teams consisting of Senior Recruiters/Talent Agents, Candidate Sourcers and a Recruitment Coordinator's to build and maintain proactive pipelines of talent within our industry.

ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED VIDEO GAME PROFESSIONAL?! -- We should connect.

I have established relationships with Senior Recruitment professionals within such organizations as LucasArts, Microsoft, THQ, Ubisoft, EA, Vivendi Games or Activision/Blizzard studios in Canada/US and Europe. Should Blue Castle not have what you're looking for, I would be happy to forward your information through to my contacts locally in Vancouver or abroad.

My email - kraig@bluecastlegames.com

Kraig Docherty’s Specialties:

- Recruitment of professionals at all levels within the video game and information technology industries.
- Employment branding programs and strategies, marketing and PR.
- Applicant Tracking and Talent Management systems implementations and requirements analysis

Kraig Docherty’s Experience

• Director of Talent Strategy & Acquisition

  Blue Castle Games

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  BLUE CASTLE GAMES is a full-service, multi-project and multi-platform 3rd party developer located in Vancouver, Canada. The studio was formed in 2005, fulfilling the desire to start a company where creativity, experience and hard work come together to create outstanding games. We are currently a 150 plus-person studio with plans to expand through the remainder of 2008. In its short tenure, Blue Castle has already developed and shipped The BIGS (published by 2K Sports in June 2007) on the PS3, 360, PS2, PSP and Wii platforms. We are well underway on three new projects - an unannounced Action title and two Sports titles.
  
  Check out http://www.bluecastlegames.com/careers for more details!

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