Job Interview Test Project
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- comicsans0
Agree to do their test project if your accountant can go over their books. Due diligence is due diligence, right?
- penelope0
Yeah, I sent a polite decline email. The less people that do the tests, the less they'll be able to ask for them.
- Milan0
Don't work for free!
- jimbojones0
FFS if anyone asks you to do a test project (unpaid) just stand up and leave. This shows no respect, this shows inability to judge your skills by your previous projects, and this is even worse than an internship!
Last time I did a test page, I then saw it printed in the mag, and the editor pretended he didn't know who I was (he interviewed me and was around me while I was making the test page all the time). No test projects for jimbojones anymore.- wow, deserves a kick to the head.Milan
- totally. seemed like a rather respected place and alljimbojones
- penelope0
Is this becoming more prevalent? I just got asked to do a "test" design for a web page for a full-time job and can't decide if it's worth the trouble.
- Dancer0
Tell'em "their shit won't bounce".
- Dancer0
Get hold of the products and a camera, go up 10 floors and throw the product from the window. Film/shoot it on the way down and the aftermath for no other reason apart from your creative process. Get the Agency to pay for the products as well
- will it blend?monNom
- take it deep to the sea floor to test water resistancemetal_leg_will
- ********0
LOL, fyoucher1 wins this thread.
- fyoucher10
I say you post the work that you did already...and then..
have us do a PSB for it.
Then you can send them the results. Balls and all...
- vaxorcist0
there's no such thing as "being more creative" without at least some direction... being randomly creative creates cool but useless stuff... you might say something like "I've worked in agencies where there was a creative brief, and if there wasn't, it was my job to write one using a business objective, a communications directive, and a target audience" So, I'd be interested in doing annother design if you can clealy communicate those things, and/or give me a creative brief, that way my work will be creatively targeted, not just randomly creative.
How they respond to a note like this will tell you if they're worth working for but feel burned by previous people who submitted work they only did part of, or if the company is just flaky or worse....
- The brief you indicate above doesn't sound much like a brief I'm used to seeing... or was it longer?
vaxorcist
- The brief you indicate above doesn't sound much like a brief I'm used to seeing... or was it longer?
- Leigh0
This company needs to be named and shamed!
- k0na_an0k0
design another email that is super creative and put a giant © ghosted over the top of it.
if you're giving them jpgs with lorem ipsum copy i'm not sure it's usable anyways so i don't think they're looking for full work, but if they gave you a word doc with real copy and want the psd and jpg then f that right in the a.
- chuparosa0
Hmmm...... if it was a company you really wanted to work for, and turnaround on the test was not that important, you might have considered giving it another go. Six figure salary sounds quite nice.
- ukit0
I'm sure everyone will tell you not to, but when it comes down to it of course you will redo the e-mail.
Considering how little effort it takes and the potential opportunity, etc.
Sorry to spoil the insurrection
- boobs0
And recruiters know absolutely nothing about the business, SO THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT COCKS THEY ARE!
Most recruiters are as clever as ping pong balls...
- boobs0
I think you should show them your super creativity by shitting right in their fridge!
Employers out there seem to think they can do anything to job applicants: test their IQ, test their references, test their urine, have them waste a million hours on interviews, insult them.
Fuck, it's just not that hard to find your own fucking work, and be the boss yourself!
- ukit0
They offered you a 6 figure job to design HTML e-mails?
- That alone is fishy shitukit
- lol - not just emails but overall webdesigner for an ecommerce company based in NYC. Heavy email creation (promo, transactional, dynamic triggered segments, etc.)jerseyred
- transactional, dynamic triggered campaigns) with an email list of 5 million and $150k per email - yeahjerseyred
- "transactional, dynamic triggered campaigns" So basically spam e-mails with buttons to click on?;)ukit
- no - segmented based on customer data, women get x, women who spend this get y - ecommerce email campaigns are involvedjerseyred
- can get involvedjerseyred
- gotcha, I was just joking around;)ukit
- cannonball19780
its sounds like you need to just be a little more super creative.