Hi all - hope you're doing well today and have some R&R planned for the weekend. Concern that's been on my mind - are you asking candidates, or providing *if a candidate*, free work via unpaid consulting services or project deliverables as part of the interview process?

I've been asked for case studies, GTM launch plans, messaging and positioning, and in-depth 30-60-90 presentations - all unpaid. After doing this twice (shame on me) I am no longer complying. Thoughts?

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I don’t ask for this as a hiring manager, but if I really needed a job I would do it to a point.

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I don’t require additional work while interviewing. However I have had it requested of me from a life sciences company and I will not do it again, I could see one of the panelists taking screenshots of my work. They didn’t realize that they were sharing the wrong screen while working with multiple monitors.

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I was and I offered to absolutely provide that if and when I was onboarded. I requested access to certain dashboards to confirm I would be able to work with what they had, gave a general assessment, but nothing specific. I work for the company now!

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