Job Aplication
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- Elfangio
Well this is what happen:
I apply to a job, send them an email with my resume and some work links, I explained that I am working in a company but I want to change.
They actually reply me :)
They asked me in their email to do a exercise to test my design skils (can't they see that from my work???) anyway they ask me to develop some drafts of a hotel identity (logo) and a website from from scratch, and this is the WTF part, in 1,5 hours!!!!!
I think an exercise is weird, I mean that is why a portfolio exists, but in 1,5 hours???
what should I do? go to the toilet and shit some logo and website???
- airey0
website - template monster.
steal a logo online.
done.
- e-pill0
an exercise can give the potential an idea to how you can manage your time, work thru their exercise, and complete the assignment.
it benefits you to complete it as best as you can.
- doesnotexist0
I would just sketch something up with pencil+paper if they only give you 1.5 hrs...odd request indeed
- I would do the same...dividing the 1.5hours into smaller timeportions to solve the different tasks...or something...uan
- sputnik20
i wouldn't do it. most of the time they say "thanks" and use your ideas.
- yes, I think that tooElfangio
- as the originator you'd own the copyrighttrooperbill
- Elfangio0
It makes me think: " if they ask me this kind of exercise they probably expect I do this in those periods of time!! I dont think thats what I want to do as a designer"
- Elfangio0
I told I would be glad to meet them for an interview and do the exercise there, in my computer, and bring the tes with me in the end :)
- Elfangio0
he next 1,5h you have to create and develop from scratch the corporate image and website design for the Sahib Hotel & Spa. Please try not to expand too much the time schedule. It is important for us to understand what you are able to do in this timeframe
Obviously, the objective of this exercise is not for you to develop the final versions of these two pieces but for you to develop one or more drafts of these pieces.
Who’s the client:
Sahib Hotel & Spa is a beautifully situated hotel just below the Dhauladhar ranges with a magnificent view of the Valley welcome you to explore the nature and enjoy the peaceful and cool atmosphere at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.
The hotel caters and provides all necessary facilities and amenities to ensure your memorable stay with us. Well decorated, airy accommodation facilities with balcony and forest / valley view’s to feast your eyes and heart. The newly build hotel promises a memorable and comfortable stay while your holidays at Dharamshala or Mcleodganj.
Materials:
Logo – you’re free to do whatever you want
Website – You need to develop a website from scratch with the following menu structure:
The Hotel
Services
What’s on
Location
Contact UsIt also should have the following Quick Links:
Picture gallery
Special offers
Latest NewsAnd last but not least, it must have a photo banner (would something like a slideshow)
Needed outcome
Abstract overview of your work
Logo – Digital drafts of the logo
Website – Digital draft of the landing page.
- Elfangio0
My reply:
I am very sorry but I only check my private email at night when I arrive home, so was impossible to do what you request me in the morning. As I write you in my application email I am working in a company as web designer / developer. As you could see in my portfolio links all of those websites were designed and developed by me. I will be most honored to visit you for an interview and then I'll be available for an exercise. I hope you understand that I can't make any thirty-part work in my labor time, as I wouldn't do it also if I was working for GuestCentric. My apologies,.
- sputnik20
i've taken real tests before and they don't ask you to do this type of work.
- Elfangio0
their reply:
Let me explain you a little bit about the exercise idea; We have a somewhat elaborated recruiting process. We’ve seen your portfolio and we’ve selected you for this exercise that you can consider as stage2. We do this to allow all candidates to show their work based on the same briefing. The time frame and the elements of the exercise was delimited in this shape so that the candidates wouldn’t have too much time to think about it. We do the interviews after we’ve selected the artwork from this exercise. It’s our way to save time and stress to the candidates and to ourselves.
Having said this, if you need an extra day to send us your artwork, there is no problem.
- digdre0
1.5hr to develop a logo and website?
I hope papersketches are ok with them
- Elfangio0
This all story stinks!!
- e-pill0
that seems simple enough, even if you do not complete it which they are acknowledging straight up is the general understanding but how you accomplish the job and how you manage your time. this exercise is rather detailed and precise. you should be able to come up with something.
good luck!!
- of course I could come up with something, sometimes I come up with stuff in 5 minutes...but I dont like this kind of aproach, call me old school if you wantElfangio
- the approach is spelled out for you, you now need to fill the body with life. done et done.e-pill
- bullshit. this process is ridiculous.lvl_13
- Elfangio0
e-pill, you would do it then!?
- e-pill0
yes i would do it. if not to test my skills, but to strengthen my skills as well. why not test your creativity, perhaps it will spark something new within you that you havent done previously... it cant hurt, can it?
- moamoa0
this exercise is bullshit... makes no sense!
I wouldn`t do it.
1 1/2 hours. tztz
- ninjasavant0
If you can do it fine but if they ask you to park a car you may want to reconsider.
- Elfangio0
I know what u mean, but I have at least a dozen of other projects to put my hands on, and I have my daughter tha I want to spend some time with, and during the week I have my job and I have no time to spend doing stupid exercises. I am Senior you dont make this kind of exercises to Senior Designers either you think they have a solid portfolio or not. then once you have a selection you go and you interview them, by talking to them and get to know them, thats what a human resource department is about, and in the interview you can do some tests to avaliate some personality profile. This kind of exercise, by email, sounds like a bullshit to me!!
- flavorful0
I would just write like, "Get fucked." in MS Paint.