Didnt Get The JOB
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- _mak
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I gotta give it to the guys, they were very honest with me but I didnt get the job because I have no commercial/corporate work in my portfolio.
That stuff is too easy, boring and it sucks, if my portfolio was full of that, I'd kill myself.
But, they wanted it and i didnt have it, but give me a day and you can have 4 corporate sites done.no problem, im quick, creative, but didnt waste time putting corporate stuff in my port cos it doesnt display any real talent, unless your a complete f***wit and can design your heart out but are unable to comprehend a simple staright forward job as to design something corporate..
guess im just bitter.
good guys tho, nice place, just unlucky.
yes , im done
- p1xelfrog0
Sorry to hear it, but corporate design pays the bills. Everyone hates doing it and not many will hire a designer with a bunch of experimental pieces made for no other reason other than artistic expression.
:P
- unknown0
wich job? :)
- unknown0
well i saw you site.. and guess what? i like it! :)
- ldww0
wow, i just checked out your site. its really good, i like your stile alot.
what was the company that did not hire you?
- p1xelfrog0
and I'm not implying all your stuff is experimental or anything, I like your site quite a bit, my point being that if a design shop does corporate design (which most do) they will want to see that in the designers portfolios they hire, that's all.
Trying to get out of corporate web design myself. Good luck!
:P
- unknown0
man.. i need to find flashMX artist with free time... need to finish my site
- lilbabyleg0
there's a lot more to corp sites than you think. corp sites are about usability but more important... diplomacy. you need to be able to talk intelligently to corpo people and get like 15 corpo people to agree on a design... that takes a lot of selling skills.
maybe you are a good designer but if you can't sell your design you'd be useless to the company looking to hire.
- p1xelfrog0
well said babyleg, and oh how true.
:P
- exador10
while i tend to agree with p1xelfrog..(if you go after a job at a place that does corporate type stuff..expect them to want to see corporate stuff in your folio..)
i have to join with the others here and say, based on what i saw on your site..i WOULD have hired you..
you got the skills bro..
they must be fucking blind to not have seen that..
it's good to have the dull shit in your folio to shop to the corporates..but any AD worth his salt should have seen your talent a mile away..their loss..
seriously..you'll get work..
just don't allow yourself to get discouraged here...
spend the weekend going over what you would put in your folio next time..
then on monday, get back out there and knock em dead.
- lilbabyleg0
I don't think it was the portfolio that did him in I think he may have tipped them off with his attitiude somehow... there are a couple designs in his site that could easily be sold as corpo style. it must be in the way he was presenting himself. corpo people need to interface with a corpo aware person. this guy was prolly a lil too rough to risk face time with a high paying corpo client.
- Gorbie0
You're trippin.
Your portfolio says nothing at all. Besides maybe, that you like to spend 12 hours a day in photoshop.
Lose the chip on your shoulder and get some real experience. Emotional abstracts are a-dime-a-dozen. (pending you can get a dime for a dozen)
- JazX0
S-U-C-K-S
- unknown0
well... how rude can people be
- Gorbie0
"Rude" is saying that commercial and corporate work is easy. That's just silly. Emo-abstracts, and RGB Photoshop "logos" are easy.
- ER0
listen to babyleg, he is speaking truth.
i think that if you intend to make any money you will learn to find the creativity in corporate design. there is a great challenge to useabilty and problem solving. i think the people who do this well are useally great designers. if you have one of these traits you usually have both.
- ER0
dont asume that agencies dont aprechiate strong emotional design. if you have a purpose and a mesage in your designs, the firms will see that you are an effective communicator and in turn, and effective salesmen/women.
- unknown0
i egree with you Gorbie!
somdays i hated my work because of it routines...but now i find interesting converting shitt to craetive motion graphics
- JazX0
it's all BS anyway, if they like you they like you, if they don't they don't. too much human shit involved
- unknown0
but still i need to find client :)
i need to make bumper/identfy for mtv or vh1
i still need to make commercial for NIKE! common help me!
- monkeyshine0
It's hard to say. I hired a young freelancer once..fresh out of school with no corporate work in their portfolio, and you know what? It took them FOREVER to do something that should have taken a couple of hours tops.
The presumption is that someone with no corporate experience may not understand project deadlines, how to interact with a client, budgetary constraints, etc. If you're so amazing and corporate work is so easy for you, then make sure your prospective employers know that you GET IT. If you owned a company whose bills were paid by corporate work, would you hire you?