The job seeker's journey with Unity

What is Unity?

What can Unity do?

The real-time production cycle

Roles and careers for real-time creators

How our established creators learned Unity

Develop your learning plan

Next steps on your journey

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the Unity engine: why it’s sometimes referred to as a game engine, how it came to be, and how it has evolved over the years.

Overview

What is a game engine?

What do you do in a game engine?

What don’t you do in a game engine?

The Unity Story

Next steps

In this tutorial, you will learn about career and job opportunities in real-time production, ranging from entry- to director-level positions. You will learn about the disciplines of Art and Design as well as Programming. You will see what a typical workday looks like for someone in each of these fields. You will also learn what it looks like to work as a Unity generalist, never specializing exclusively in one particular discipline. 

Careers in Art and Design

Careers in Programming

Careers as a generalist

What will be your path?

Summary

By now, you might have some thoughts on potential projects or careers that would put your Unity skills to good use. You’re embarking on a journey of learning Unity, and along the way you want to challenge yourself — but not take on too much. In this tutorial, our established creators will talk about their early projects, the challenges they overcame, and the career paths they followed.  

Be realistic

Be patient

Stick with it

Join the communities

Explore game jams

In this tutorial, you will learn more about setting goals for learning Unity, To help you reach your goals, we invite you to create a learning action plan.

Inspiration for identifying your goal

Identify your goal

Complete your plan

Share your Plan 

Interested in learning more about jobs in real-time 3D? New to Unity, and wondering how to start a serious course of learning? Then you're in the right place.

In this course, you'll learn how to learn Unity the way professionals do. You'll also find out about some real-time 3D industry practices, roles, and responsibilities. Along the way, you'll hear from real-time 3D creators who have been at the beginning of their journey, just like you are — and have become professionals.

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Job seeker's guide to learning Unity

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Keep learning

Your next steps

Your effort will pay off

You’re on your way

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In this tutorial, you'll have an opportunity to gain some inspiration for the journey ahead from our established creators, and learn more about ways to pursue job skills in real-time 3D and Unity.

Designed for post-secondary and K-12 educators at accredited academic institutions teaching Unity in the classroom, the Unity Educator plan provides you with free access to the same real-time 3D development tools used by professionals to support your students.

Included in this plan are Unity Pro, cloud-based collaboration, cloud build, free Unity assets, and much more!

Unity Essentials Pathway Facilitator Kit.zip

Unity Essentials Pathway Facilitator Kit (Google Drive)

Unity Educator Hub

The Unity Essentials Facilitator Kit includes everything you need to successfully bring this Pathway into your learning context including a syllabus, complete lesson plans, standards alignment, teacher preparation guide, and more. 

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Whatever you do from here, don’t stop learning! Even our established creators are still learning more about Unity — the learning journey never ends!

We hope you'll use the Unity Learn platform as the headquarters of your Unity learning journey! From here, we recommend that you build your job skills with the help of the following resources:

Unity Learning Pathways:  Follow these guided journeys as you build specific skills.

My Learning: Track your skills and progress on the Unity Learn site. As you earn badges on the Learn platform, be sure to share them on your socials and in your portfolio. Select My Learning on the top menu of Unity Learn.

Universal Job Profiles: Learn about in demand jobs in the real-time 3D industry with Universal Job Profiles; industry vetted detailed job descriptions that will help guide you in preparing to become job ready. 

It will take time, effort, and patience to learn Unity. Let’s hear from our creators on why it was worth it to keep going!

You have your learning plan in place, and you’ve identified what you want to learn next — so go for it. The world really is a better place with more creators in it. 

Next steps on your journey

1. Keep learning

2. Your next steps

3. Your effort will pay off

4. You’re on your way

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