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<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Description Playground Games is looking for an Associate Recruiter to join our team on a contract basis.</h3><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">About us: As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with an established, talented, and collaborative Recruitment team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game development studios.</h3><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">About the role: We are looking for a reliable and detail-orientated Recruiter to join our team working within a demanding and rapidly expanding environment. Your primary duties will be supporting the HR & Recruitment team across a wide range of daily tasks from drafting job descriptions to interview scheduling, from direct sourcing and screening of candidates to helping us ensure the candidates experience is the best in the industry.</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">This is a 12-month contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. 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We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">If you require any reasonable adjustments to apply for this position, please contact us on <a href="mailto:recruitment@playground-games.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">recruitment@playground-games.com</a></p>

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