A recruiter from an agency I’m interviewing at wants me to provide the brief that led to a piece of work I shared. It’s been a while since I’ve interviewed, but man, that feels wild to request another agencies internal facing document. Right? Please tell me that’s not normal lol

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Very weird

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I think you could approach it by giving them a sense of the insight and the problem you were tasked to solve in a concise write-up. But I wouldn’t send another agency’s brief verbatim.

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Hard pass. You can send them something that is basically the same as what a lot of people put in their portfolios, which is problem: X, solution: x… just something that shows what the general core of a brief might have been and how you guys solved the issue. But this is dumb for them to ask for this

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Pro Tip: Discuss the demographics and insight that lead to the work.

But literally tell them that as an an employee you are bound by an NDA and you take those very seriously, so you cannot share the brief.

If the recruiter has a brain, he/she will immediately respect you for that response and know that you’d make a great employee for their agency.

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It’s fine to describe the brief, but no way can you share it. That’s confidential and privileged info.

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Sucks to say this but it feels like they don’t believe you thought of the idea. Maybe move on. Prob not the right place for you.

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