Job Interview & Test
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Re:Raniator's point. Last year I attempted to get someone in to the studio to help out cuz of 400 busy. This bloke in the office next door said his son had just graduated from an illustration course that summer and was really good and would be willing to come in and help out/lean the ropes for not much munt. He put a figure of 7£ per hour on that.
I met him, saw his porkfoldio, it was okay... good enough but graduate level, and then I said "munt?" and he said "oh 20£ per hour"... and I said "hmmm, down here in turkeyville, I'd expect to pay that for a really good middleweight with x years of experience, not a graduate with nothing". But he was so confident and told me he'd been artworking at a printers for a number of years... artworking was what I needed, so I said I'd test him to do some press ads for a client. Twenty pounds per hour for about one hour's work and if he was okay we'd book some more time.
I gave him all the stuff he needed. It was just a case of assembling the exact same elements in Quark to five different ad sizes. It would take me twenty minutes max. I gave him an hour.
He sat there for three hours. Kept reassuring me everything was fine. After hour three, I asked to see what he was up to, and he hadn't even finished one ad. The one ad he had attempted was like a textbook example of how fucking wrong its possible to get something.
What reminded me of it was that HE sat there sweating and red faced. He almost cried I think when I asked him to leave to the studio.