i leave the room, figuring that A-having me in there will only stress them out more, B-i want to write up my observations in private, and C-i might as well make it an ethics test.... i close the interview, take the test from them, and wish them luck as i hand them my card. i look at the test, and notice that the candidate got the layout question correct, which i thought was odd, for someone who didn't have a lot of print experience.
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this morning, i interview minion candidates #1 and 2. in candidate #1's interview, a couple of red flags get raised. 'hmm,' i think to myself, 'this one doesn't look good. but they might surprise me, so might as well let them take the test.' i give candidate #1 the test. i give the instructions. i leave the room, figuring that A-having me in there will only stress them out more, B-i want to write up my observations in private, and C-i might as well make it an ethics test. so i go downstairs and have some coffee. i come back up, 45 minutes later, and they're still working on the test. i close the interview, take the test from them, and wish them luck as i hand them my card. i look at the test, and notice that the candidate got the layout question correct, which i thought was odd, for someone who didn't have a lot of print experience. then i notice that the wording for one of the answers seems totally unlike this candidate's diction. so i pull up the browser history of firefox. nothing. i pull up the browser history of internet explorer. bingo. the candidate looked up the answers on the web and was stupid enough to not clear the browser history. guess what score that test got?
so you want to be a designer? part iii: the test
What's wrong with this code?* <cfquery name="users" datasource="myDSN"> select name, email from users order by name </cfquery> <table> <cfoutput query="users"> <tr> <td>#name#</td><td>#email#</td> </tr> </cfoutput> </table> 6.... Instructions-indent:link { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #003366, textdecoration: none ; width: 100%; padding-left: 20px} 13.... Collect the InDesign file and the related files for printing, in a folder named with your last name, and the date, as follows: lastname_MMDD.
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34) If you’re a writer and you don’t have spectacular long copy, consider instead writing a few paragraphs about yourself or something you’re into for your book.... 42) When a prospective employer makes all sorts of promises, remember that your salary agreement is the only promise they can’t flake out on. 43) Don’t base your self-image on positive feedback, because you can’t count on that.... You'll know you're a creative when your business card (that someone else makes for you) has any of the following words on it: designer, creative, principal, artist, writer.
Read Moreso you think you're a designer, part 1.
and "While in [deleted] Elementary School, I had demonstrated playing piano on the song of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven, which I had received rank #1 score."... then there was the banker, who is either looking to change careers entirely, or sent his resumé to the wrong job.... however, the most common mistake people are making is seeing 'programmer' in the title, and thinking it's a programming job.
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