Curious -what are some crazy things you were asked to do in order to land an internship? Creative applications?

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Whatever it takes.

I was asked to send a book and... they called back asking some interview type questions and I was in the agency by next week.

I really wish agencies stop making students and early career folks jump through hoops for an internship. You can get a feel for how qualified by looking at their book and a few rounds of interviews.

Students are not circus animals.

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Venables Bell & Partner had "creative" questions you had to answer. One about defining a made up word. One about a scenario. And one about a "turning moment in my life."

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Multiple rounds of data analysis. After the third I realized this was basically free work for them as they hadn't analyzed the data themself and didn't catch a minor "'mistake" that I slipped in.

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