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 been within the video game and IT industries.

---> For the last 5 years, my experience has been focused within the video game industry. I have had the opportunity to build local and global staffing teams, formulate recruitment strategies and programs while always remaining hands on in a sourcing capacity. This includes recruiting for such roles as: Executives (COO/Finance/Legal), Producers, Project Managers, Software Engineers at all levels and Art/Creative/Design & Animation professionals.
---> These have been for both publishers and development studios focused on MMORPG, RTS, open world, casual/mid-session online games, mobile, 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, Ubisoft and 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
- University relations

Recruiting --> Development --> Retention --> = Talent Management

Kraig Docherty’s Experience

• Director of Talent Strategy & Acquisition

  Blue Castle Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  BLUE CASTLE GAMES (www.bluecastlegames.com) is a full-service, multi-project and multi-platform 3rd party developer located in Vancouver, Canada. Our studio was formed in 2005, fulfilling the desire to start a company where creativity, experience and hard work come together to create outstanding games. Today Blue Castle Games is a 170-person studio and in its short tenure, has developed and shipped The BIGS (published by 2K Sports in June 2007) on PS3, 360, PS2, PSP and Wii and MLB Front Office Manager (published by 2K Sports in January 2009) on PS3, 360 and PC. Currently in development and just announced is our AAA Action project, Dead Rising 2, which will be published by Capcom and released on multiple platforms and The BIGS 2, which will be published by 2K Sports and released on five platforms in July 2009.
  
  Check out http://www.bluecastlegames.com for more details!

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