Laurie Braddy recounts a marketing candidate who spent weeks creating a full marketing plan with graphics during interviews, then got no offer. Never do extensive unpaid work for a prospective employer. Keep job searching until you have an offer.
Hey, guys, it's Laurie with career Coaching now bringing you another interview horror story. I do bring interview horror stories and also interview success stories so that you guys can learn from them. So today we'll jump right into it. This is interview horror story number five. And this is taken advantage of. So this is about a candidate who went in for an interview. Um, she was a marketing type of candidate, went in for an interview. The first interview she did very, very well. She received a phone call back from the employer that they wanted her, they really liked her, and they wanted her to create a marketing plan with graphics for one of their product collections. And I basically, you know, she talked to me about it. I told her, I said, I really wouldn't do that. I mean, a sample is one thing, but for a company to ask you to create an entire marketing plan with graphics, you're talking about something that takes weeks and weeks and weeks to do. And I just think any reputable company is not going to ask you to do that. They may ask you for, again for samples or anything like that, but they're not going to ask you to create an entire marketing plan for one of their product sales segment. So she, against my advice, she did that. She created the full marketing plan with graphics. It took her weeks and weeks to do it. She handed it over. She did not get the job. So either the company was just trying to get a free marketing plan. I'm not really sure. I don't know who this company was specifically, but nonetheless, she went through all of this work, and in the meantime, she thought she had such a great chance of getting this job because they wanted her, they wanted her to do this, that she stopped looking and stopped interviewing, which is. That's another thing in itself. Never do that. But the moral of this story is, you know, you don't want an employer to take advantage of you. While most won't, sometimes they will. So just be careful with that. Never, ever, ever do anything that's going to take you hours and hours and hours to do for an employer that you don't even have the job yet. So, again, I felt bad for this, this woman, but don't do that. Anyway, it's Laurie again with career Coaching now. And I will be back again with some more horror stories and success stories.
