
Introduction
The online gaming and betting industry is expanding all the time, and it is creating new job opportunities at the same time. Any growth industry is going to create new job opportunities, and online gaming and betting has constituted a growth industry for around twenty years now. The Internet landscape and the gaming landscape in general have both changed a great deal since then. Today, there are careers available in the online gaming and betting industry that people never would have imagined a decade ago or so.
Game Testing
Game testing has been an extremely coveted job for a long time. To a certain extent, these people will get the opportunity to play games for money. The growth of the online gaming and betting industry is going to be creating new opportunities for game testers everywhere. These job opportunities will be rare of course. The job is also harder than it sounds, given the level of experience and understanding of the technical details that testers are going to need in order to really offer useful reports about the games that they play. However, this is still a dream job for many.
Programming and Tech Support
The websites that host online games and casino websites in general are going to need people to program them, as well as programmers to update the websites. They will also have a highly-trained tech support staff that can handle any of the glitches that might arise. These kinds of websites deal with a lot of high bandwidth content and have a lot of players, so they are going to be more prone to problems than many other sites. Programmers that are skilled with sites of this nature and tech support staff members who have experience in the gaming industry will be highly in demand in this particular sector.
Game Developers
Online casinos are adding new mobile games and new casino games all the time. The game developers who are able to supply them with genuinely new games are going to manage to increase their profit margins, while making a name for themselves. People who can devise mobile games in particular are going to have an advantage.
Customer Service
Many online casinos are going to have live chat options. A number of them will offer support that lasts twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. They’re going to need many dedicated staff members in order to meet those requirements, which is going to translate to more job opportunities for the people who have the requisite skills.
Writing and Affiliate Marketing
The online gaming industry is going to create more job opportunities for writers and affiliate marketers, who are going to be promoting the various online casino venues. Online gaming companies are going to promote themselves online to other Internet users more often than they’re going to promote themselves in any other format. As such, people who are involved in online marketing as marketers or as marketing copywriters are going to be in a situation in which they are going to be working for the online gambling industry.
Sources:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/270728/market-volume-of-online-gaming-worldwide/
http://www.indeed.com/q-Online-Gambling-jobs.html
http://www.casinocareers.com/
