I am so sick of doing assignments after twenty rounds of interviews

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Simple. Charge a day rate.

Your dentist won’t fill your cavity for free for you to see if s/he is capable doing such procedures.

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I've provided a day rate to an interviewer who wanted a deck for a campaign theyre presently working on within 24 hours. They were furious I would even ask.

If anyone reacts like this, its a red flag not to work there.

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From the other side - I can’t tell you how many candidates I’ve met who interview really well but completely blow the assignment. It’s invaluable to see how people actually do work and present it in a team environment, and shows you much more about how it would be to actually work with the person than just interviews. I get that it’s a pain in the ass and I always try to work with candidates if they have important deadlines to work around to be as accommodating as is reasonable.

Think about it like this - what’s worse, spending a little extra time to do the assignment, or taking a job only to get fired three months later because it turned out you weren’t qualified or a good fit?

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@president1 I don’t think the industry does this as a generalization. I’m shocked at some incredibly well respected agencies within holding companies allowing this to become common practice. I would much prefer your alternative.

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Give THEM an assignment.

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I did an assignment and then waited two weeks for an update. HR rep was supposed to call on a Thursday. Made me wait. Then called on Friday to tell me I didn’t get the job? Ummm, what is it all even for anymore?!!?!

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You guys should post their assignments on here if you can. I’m curious on what they are.

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So sounds like you really want the job!

It’s always for a retained brand too. The last three jobs I got had me do that. I pushed back but this isn’t a market to do that in. It makes me feel gross and angry.

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One of the suggestions I’ve seen people mentioned is to charge them a freelance rate for the work they’re asking you to do, and if they don’t want to pay then you shouldn’t do it. I know it’s easier said than done especially right now where jobs are hard to come by... but it’s not right for them to ask you to work for free!

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In the past I’ve said I’m not working on a client of yours for free- pay me my rate and they hired me without the assignment. This economy, I’ll probably be told no and I really like the company. Still annoying and shady as hell

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Can you insist on working on a hypothetical client then?

Wayfair makes you do assignments with 24 hour turn around times. It’s messed up.

And how do they expect that when you already have a job that keeps you well beyond 5pm? Hell, how do they expect that if you don’t even have a job?

Lol. Assignments. Ha. Don’t work for free.

Last job I refused. This job I want, so I’m just biting the bullet. But it’s ridiculous the shit they are getting away with right now.

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