“Calling All Gamers: Your Ultimate Job-Seeking Guide Awaits!”

Friends, particularly my gaming jobseekers, you have inquired, so here are my responses concerning the most requested (that I am allowed to share) negotiations as I navigate searching for my project in the AI industry:

Q: How and who discovers you?
A: 100% are through friends or introductions via friends. Each of these comes directly from executives, without the involvement of recruiters / LinkedIn (although, I send my appreciation to my recruiter friends).

Q: Are these positions public?
A: Up until now, to my knowledge, 100% of the roles or projects have been unlisted.

Q: Why you?
A: Just a guess, but relationship referrals and the perceived reduction of risk associated with academia come to mind, if I had to speculate.

Q: What do they expect you to do?
A: In broad terms? I can categorize this into two areas:

1. Big Tech – This has been unexpected, mainly related to selective external advocacy and brand positioning within extensive ecosystems, alongside internal team alignment for opportunity prioritization and interdepartmental knowledge/resource sharing.

2. MNC – Minimization of business risk exposure and external/internal campaigns for stakeholder education strategies, while collaborating with C-Suite to develop a cohesive implementation plan connected to feasible RoI’s through new income possibilities, targeted workforce reductions, and transformations.

Q: What does a proposal entail?
A: Again, dividing into two categories:

Big Tech – 100% has been full-time employment, on-site, with highly stringent disclosure agreements, and compensation has remained surprisingly uniform (±10%), with external engagements outside of a strategy needing months of prior approval (i.e., they won’t occur).

2. MNC – Highly diverse; only about ±20% prefer to transition to FTE, while ±80% favor contracts, with compensation primarily influenced by urgency and sector, contracts being less stringent regarding disclosures with most preferring 1-2 meetings each month face-to-face, the average term length being 1 year with an evergreen. Typically, there’s a designated internal owner within the Office of the CTO; I theorize this is an effort to manage headcount costs until AI talent stabilizes (heavily weighted towards the expert).

Q: Which sectors exhibit the highest demand?
A: Big tech, defense, media & entertainment, and healthcare have seen the most outreach.

Q: Anything unexpected?
A: I need to tread carefully here, so I apologize for the ambiguity (not discussing MNCs). Within big tech, there is a significant number of senior-level executives who are not familiar with AI. This, nonetheless, is logical as they concentrate on their specific roles/functions. Meanwhile, each has an extensive and comprehensive land grab strategy that I wish I could disclose publicly (I can’t).

I’m unsure if this benefits anyone out there, but I felt compelled to share this as I’m beginning to digitize and analyze the hundreds of pages of notes I’ve amassed over the past 3 months to delve deeper into some insights.

I hope you found this engaging and that I was able to adequately address your inquiries!