Recently, a completely amazing startup contacted us and we realized that it would be a crime not to discuss it with the Habra community. So meet the bonus speaker!
This Tuesday, Andrey from Game Academy, a graduate and former lecturer of the Moscow State University, Moscow State University, will speak on our Instagram account. As an applied mathematician and programmer, Andrey has applied and continues to apply his skills in various fields of science. In addition to this, she uses science in practice, in charge of data processing and training courses for Game Academy.
What is Game Academy?
Game Academy is a UK-based educational startup that assesses a person's real skills through a gaming profile and develops them through video games.
The idea of a startup was prompted by the analysis of the labor market. Most companies and the British government (as well as the governments of many other countries) announced a shortage of personnel with very specific soft skills.
The guys analyzed the market, began to understand and made three amazing discoveries:
1. Due to global automation, the economy requires new skills
According to McKinsey & Company research , within 7 years, only 5% of all professions are fully automated, and 50% are partially automated, employees will have new responsibilities that will require other skills: multitasking, the ability to adapt to a changing environment and solve problems in non-standard ways, the ability to quickly learn new technologies.
The project founder recently visited a steel mill in the north of England.
Initially, the plant employed 50 employees, but after automation, only 10 had to be left and their work tasks were completely changed: now these employees monitor the plant, managing its work through consoles similar to game consoles. It looks a lot like a regular video game.
It was with difficulty that the management of the plant found 10 people who would know how the plant works and could easily cope with the "game" in its management. After the fact, it turned out that all 10 new employees are advanced gamers. Therefore, the factory is now considering gamers as a target category for attracting new workers.
Employers such as marketing agencies and telecommunications companies in the UK are already recruiting employees through games or the gaming experience of candidates.
2. Gamers have these skills of the future
Focus on details, the ability to perform tasks routinely for a long time, teamwork, quick decision-making, competitiveness, excellent coordination between the brain and hands (the ability to quickly and accurately aim and take a headshot) - the skills that employers need right now are in abundance in gamers. And Game Academy realized that this is great news: a huge 2 billion community of gamers is the very place where you need to look for qualities and skills that are missing in business today.
Games have a high density of events: if in life a person does not need to make a large number of decisions, then in games like Civilization decisions are made several times per turn. While playing, we make dozens of times more decisions and experience events. Thanks to the emotional impact of games, information is absorbed much better. This is a great simulator: practice some decision-making method in the game, then try to do the same in reality and learn again by playing.
3. We do not need special, "educational" games. Fallout and Total War are perfect
The mentor of the project and the creator of the world's first MMO, Professor Richard Bartle, noticed an interesting thing: any games created specifically for training are extremely dull. It is impossible to play them for a long time and with interest when you have seen the world of top video games with high-quality game design and excellent graphics.
Video games create the very experience that is interesting to live and within which you can try new things, study yourself and pump certain skills.
According to the Oxford study, there are only 12 soft skills that employers, including programmers and engineers, require. The third good news for Game Academy was that all of these skills can be developed by playing regular, pre-existing games.
Do you have a lot of questions, how does it work? Great, because Andrey will answer them during the live broadcast
In addition to answering your questions, Andrey will also tell you:
- How exactly the platform analyzes a person according to their gaming profile: how to understand what you can and love to do from the games in your Steam;
- How to understand from games what motivates you and redirect this motivation into work tasks that you will do with fire in your eyes;
- Is there a strong statistical correlation between professions and favorite games;
- How the ability to play complex games like SpaceChem and Stellaris shows better intelligence than education;
- He will be responsible for the scientific nature: how the data was collected, how it was analyzed and why the creators of the platform are confident in what they are talking about;
- How are exercises for pumping soft skills based on games created;
- Games as an employee questionnaire: why the questionnaire is easy to cheat, but the game is not;
- What soft skills are needed for startups, what for those who are engaged in science and what for software developers;
- Why the final platform model is much more difficult than skills + profession. How do the guys solve this problem;
- How career guidance works based on a gaming profile;
- Why are there so many statistical inaccuracies in most works about the connection between games and skills and professions? How do they lead researchers to false results? How not to be deceived yourself?
- The first results of the platform: how was the first bootcamp for making decisions in twitch and discord. Feedback from participants and conclusions made by the project team.
Where will the stream take place
Starting at 20:00, TOMORROW, July 14
- In our instagram account
- And on our YouTube channel
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