The interview went smoothly, and both interviewers were very friendly and seemed interested in my experience.
However, I want to make clear that besides the normal interview they requested me to complete two tasks: designing a bookmark and creating a small social media plan for their upcoming release Cosmo Park. Now this ''small social media plan'' was as below:
''Please create a plan for 2-3 social media posts for Cosmo Park. Please feel free to also list any additional ideas that you have for posts.
Please detail when you would plan to post them and on which platforms with examples of the written copy that you would use.
You can include visuals, but these do not need to be final.''
In addition to designing a whole bookmark, I also did this task, and created full visuals for 3 different social media posts, alongside with ideas.
As a designer, I'm used to tasks being part of the interview process, but as a maternity cover job that only pays £25k annum (in this economy is TOO low) these tasks where unnecessarily long. It's unpaid labour. Needless to say, I was ghosted, without even a ''No, thank you'' after all of this. I could see there were candidates before and after me waiting to go in, so I'm glad they at least got an efty supply of social media content ideas going forward for free.
The interview was pleasant, professional, the office seems small but nice, great location. I only had one in person interview but wasn't selected for a second one as they found someone more suited for the role.
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Nobrow (London, England) in June 2018
Interview
Rude, patronising and degrading. I was interviewed by 3 white males who were not interested in anything I had to say during the short meeting. I was fresh out of university and had a number of interviews that same day which I had brought my visual portfolio for. I left my portfolio in the corner of the room at the start of the interview, explaining that I brought it for other appointments I had that day. I was accused of brining my work to 'show off' in the 'hope of landing a book deal'. I was mortified and almost broke down. Considering this is a publishing house that produces work for young people, I was shocked and enraged at their absolute lack of emotional intelligence and basic respect for other people. I can't imagine how they treat their employees if that's how they behave with people visiting their office for only half an hour.
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Question 1
Give us an example of a time when you've been in a similar social media role.
