interviewing intern
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- monkeyshine
I've interviewed and supervised jr. designer types but have never supervised an intern. Tomorrow I have to interview some folks. Any tips? I know I can't be as hard on an intern as I would a jr. level designer but not sure where the line is...eh?
- J_Treehorn0
In our office interns aren't allowed to contribute in any significant manner to paying clients jobs. In fact they hardly are permitted to design at all. They mostly just get familiar with our processes, and assist us on procedure based tasks.
- piperboytoy0
I interned for soooo many designers, usually did a lot of grunt work. cleaning and optimizing files, but I did get paid when they gave me client work. Usually it's simple like making clipping paths or doing buttons.
Just ask them what there goals are, where they see themselves in 5 years. blah blah blah
- Mick0
Just make sure you tell them up front what you expect from them and ask them what they're expecting. Once both parties know up from whats expected then nobody goes home crying.
- fusion410
When I was going to intern about 12 years ago, everybody said the only thing I’d be allowed to do was copy corrections or shot stats.
Well on my first day I was working on designiing logos. In fact, while I interned, it was pretty much all design and production work. I don’t see why you shouldn’t let an intern try their hand at some cient work as long as they are properly managed. Asking them to clean up is an insult. Its like saying there education is only worth them being a janitor.
PS. I’d be curious to know how many out there remember what a stat is :)
- J0
What's a stat?
- piperboytoy0
I had to clean bargage cans and sort out paper, and sweep floors. But that was when i interned during highschool.
Hi Todd
- carver0
criteria for the interns..obviously they've got to be quite tidy, and the rule of thumb for interns in my company(i am the boss of 15 people, i get roughly £42k minus excluding freelance) is that they always be the ladies. you've to look at these people for up to 6 week! helps if they are foreign, cos that means they have to organise loads of things like flats and things, so they are quite vulnerbable. helps if they have that 'look' in the eye, they sort of gagging for it look, the prospect of pulling the interns at the first friday night session must be paramount. tea skills,and smell like washing powder, dunno what that perfume is, Glow by JLO i think. hope that gives you an insight into the process here at Robin's Nest!!
- fusion410
Hey Edvin. How is it going?
Before the days of computerized prepress, print was done by pasting camera ready art onto illustration board. When you needed a logo or image reproduced you photographed it using a stat camera, which allowed you to resize the subject up or down.
- Bio0
first thing to ask:
"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
second:
"Would you do drugs with a fellow employee? And if not, then would you tattle on that employee if you happened to see him or her toke a fatty-boom-batty in the office?"
thank you, that concludes our interview. we will review your responses carefully and contact you with our decision.
- unknown0
haha Carver
UR such a dick :)
- piperboytoy0
hi todd, not bad. I quit my shitty ass job on monday. I'm just going to do freelance from now on. The CD there was worse than John Reeves.
what's up with you?
- unknown0
hehe Bio,
U are just tryin' to protect yer own ass.
- Bio0
i would never!!
well maybe...
ok. yea. what of it?!
hahah, mornin bart.
- fusion410
not much same old stuff.
So what was up with your former CD?
All the best with the freelance.
- chug0
Back to interning ...
They place I'm at is great, they're giving me lots of stuff to do, and it's not just pixel-pushing, there's some moderate designing involved, and it's getting much better day to day. On top of this, I'm a high school student and all the interns they've had before me have had the same experiences. I don't see why, if they have the skills, interns couldn't be as productive as their paid counterparts.
Have a nice Thursday.
- piperboytoy0
yeah, the CD would grab my mouse and tells me to move aside so he can mess with my layouts. It turns out he does that with everyone.
One time I was waiting for him to give me a briefing on a project and i was just surfing for maybe 10mins, he got pissed off and told me to stop surfing at work again.
He talks down to me and doesn't care about my opinions at all.
And they never mentioned to me that they had a side business of selling website templates to insurance companies, and since I started that's what I've been doing the majority of the time. Templated shit. Not even nice ones, but 4 year old crap.
He told me that he use to work at Infinet back in 96. god I should have seen that one coming.
- monkeyshine0
you guys are too much! Thanks for the input. Well, the intern position isn't paid (not MY call but not my business) and though I think interns should be paid (especially for client work) at the very least they should be able to leave here with a few solid pieces for their book. Thanks, guys!
- jtmdesign0
lets say hypothetically that you had an oppurtunity to intern at a really high end place in LA. This required you moving from the east coast to the west coast for 3 months. No pay. However, you get to work on some pretty sick projects.
- unknown0
blow job lips, tight ass, and great tits.
Its how Id choose mine. oh and single too
- carver0
nice one,
wanna work us?