Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada claims he isn't trying to up sticks and leave Bandai Namco aftersome fans noticed that he'd switched on LinkedIn's «open to work» function.
Now I can't blame people for thinking that means he's trying to jump ship. After all, the open to work function is supposed to be exactly for that—letting recruiters know that you're looking for new job opportunities.
Harada's own open to work preference says he's looking for roles such as «Executive Producer, Game Director,» and «Vice President of Business Development,» which are lots of nice-sounding corporate words I'm sure mean something.
But, according to Harada, he's not actually planning to hand out his resumé to other developers anytime soon. Apparently, he only did it because he wants to broaden his professional social circle. «Oh, don't worry about this,» he tweeted in response to someone asking if it was true he was looking for other work. «I meet a lot of people on a regular basis (but I don't actually have that many friends in my private world LOL), I just wanted to meet more people and expand my horizons in the future.
I just want to meet more people when I turn this option on. Just that.» Well, that's the panic over… I suppose? I'm not exactly well-versed in LinkedIn—it feels too much like a strange corporate Facebook for my liking—but I assume what he says is true.