Job Interview & Test
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So I had this job interview about a week ago, I had to do a test, and was ask to reproduce a two page layout spread, and then produce one A4 advertisement, just with text, but there was a lot of information to be layout on the page, and then about 5-6 images to touch-up in Photoshop, like replace a building, nock out the background sky. All this work had to be done in the space of one hour, thirty minutes, would you say that is allot of work to do in that space of time.
- lvl_130
if the job title was to be the next president...then no, that seems about right.
- ********0
Dam I must be slow then.
- brenton0
That's lame. The portfolio review should be the only test.
- ********0
Would you really want to work for those people Roundabout?
- Raniator0
That sounds about right I guess... remember, I'm sure the end results didn't have to be pixel perfect, it's just so THEY know YOU know how to operate the software, rather than just sitting there sweating, all red faced...
- Dancer0
Was it an artworking job.
I was put in a Mock brief taking situation once. I almost walked out
- ********0
Well it was for a design persist-ion, for a holiday company, producing travel brochure, and them brochure have allot going on in the layout. But I would say there was more art-working involved in the job, then design.
- ********0
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.
- ********0
Sounds like a good idea... nothing worse than getting a muppet working for you... portfolio okay, but took them a year to do the 6 sleeves in their portfolio... no use to anyone.
- epigraph0
sounds like a production job.
if that is what you are looking for, fine. If you want to be creative, then stay away from people who test you. I hate when someone says they want a designer, but really wants a monkey with the speed of a crack addict.
- _eh_0
You shouldn't have to take a test.
Maybe if you were straight out of school, with no real world experience and no references for them to call. And you were starving for work. then consider it.
- menos0
a test?? is it just me or that sounds like rubbish?
- ********0
That not all, The company then gave me a psychological test, after the main design test. Anyway, lets just say I did not get all the work completed on time. Next job interview then.