We are Amiqus
Our story
We started Amiqus back in 2000, with a mission to take our love of the games industry and combine it with our experience in recruitment to help more people find the right job, at the right time.
Since then we've come a long way, together with the industry we've grown into a successful team, with Client and Candidate relationships globally, all from our base in the UK.
We’re passionate about the games industry and do everything we can to support its growth.
We're an active member of APSCo a trade association specifically for the professional recruitment sector, an assurance of quality in the recruitment market and we're members of Ukie and TIGA, central to our support of and commitment to the games industry.
There's no recruitment challenge we haven't experienced and we know we can help grow teams of any size, across all disciplines from experienced right through to Board level hiring. Candidates can be assured of a personalised and confidential service to find the best opportunity for them.
We are proud to have won many industry awards over the years, we’re truly happy that people appreciate the work that we do.
The Amiqus difference
We’re based in the UK in one office in the North West of England working predominantly with European developers and publishers.
Our Consultants are based in the UK, with our outsourced back office functions such as payroll and legal based in London and Krakow
We're deeply networked and connected in the Games Industry, the average length of service per Consultant in our team is 10 years.
We own and manage a LinkedIn Group of 60,000 Games
professionals.
Relationships are at the heart of our business, driving highly engaged and long established Client and Candidate Associations. We only expect to be rewarded for providing exceptional service and results to our Customers.
To provide the best service, we invest significantly in People, in our technology and in our brand.
We have a deep understanding of what it takes to attract a diverse candidate pool and take positive action on every role. Diversity in Action is at the core of our service and embedded into the industry through our award winning pro-bono initiative -
Putting the G Into Gaming.
Client Services
Executive Search
Where you have strategic-level needs Amiqus provides a Director Level dedicated, guaranteed solution to hand-pick elite candidates for your highest level business-critical roles. To find out more about our Executive Search service click below.
Tell me morePermanent Hires
Where you’re looking to grow your team with permanent hires, our experienced Consultants will focus on providing the widest and most diverse talent pool of exceptional candidates for your roles. To find out more about how we do things, click below.
Tell me moreContractors
Where you want to add flexibility to your team, we can attract contract talent to work anywhere in the world for you. We have the solution. To find out more about how this works, click below.
Tell me moreLeadership
We’re very fortunate to work together and our team makes us who we are.
Three of us lead the Amiqus business.
Liz Prince is responsible for directing the strategy and ensuring profitable growth for the business, joining Amiqus in 2005.
Together with Stig and Alan she sets the standards for our service to clients and candidates and manages those standards with the team. She’s an active Client Director in the business, originally a Computer Science graduate, starting out in tech recruitment 26 years ago.
Stig Strand & Alan Dixon are responsible for driving Consultant activity internally, with team management responsibilities.
Both focus on Senior and Executive level hires externally.
Two of the most established and highly regarded Recruitment Specialists in the Games industry, Stig has been with Amiqus since the start in 2000 and Alan has been with Amiqus for 9 years.
Our Charity Partners
Our relationship with Autistica is part of our diversity focus in action, supporting neuro diverse talent into a career in games.
As Ambassadors for Special Effect we work to amplify their work, actively fund raise and sponsor key events.

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22/11/2023
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Today (November 22nd) is the day when, because of the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK stop being paid compared to men. This means:At the current rate of change, the gender pay gap won'
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21/11/2023
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The whole team at Amiqus is absolutely delighted and honoured to have received another award, this time the accolade of Best Recruitment Agency at the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2023.Awards li

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17/10/2023
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The Value of Working with a Games Recruitment Agency There has been a lot of sad news recently about redundancies and restructuring within the industry, and our thoughts go out to
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05/09/2023
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Facing redundancy can be daunting. I'll cut to the chase with my top tips to help you navigate this situation: Take Your Time to Reflect and Regroup: In the midst of a career trans
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19/07/2023
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The Amiqus team has just about recovered from a super busy and exciting few days in Brighton for the Develop Conference and Awards. The icing on the cake for us was picking up the
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12/06/2023
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We’re often asked by candidates about how they can stand out during the job application process. With over 20 years of experience as a specialist games recruiter, we’ve got an arsenal of killer
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07/03/2023
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On this International Women’s Day, we’re delighted to reveal that Amiqus has become an official Women in Games Ambassador. An Individual Ambassador herself, Amiqus’ Business Manage
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23/02/2023
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Results from the world’s largest four-day week trial have been published, with most participating companies deciding to continue with this new way of working, with productivity, business perform
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29/11/2022
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What's The Best Way To Offer A Role? The ‘war for talent’ is well documented, and undoubtedly we are working within a candidate-led market which is set to continue into 2023 and beyon
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16/11/2022
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Dove has teamed up with Epic Games, the Women in Games organisation and studio Toya on a campaign to tackle the representation of women in games, and to support girls with self-esteem educatio
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Looking to grow your
career in recruitment?
Perhaps you’re already successful in your recruitment career but thinking about a new challenge.
Or maybe you've had some experience of recruitment but are looking for a more supportive, quality-driven environment.
Whatever the case, now’s your chance to take the next step. Come and work for us!