ASK THE HEADHUNTER Doing free work to earn a job interview

[deanwebb]

Doing free work to earn a job interview

[html]<p>Question I know you have addressed this in the past but it's the first time I've encountered an employer that wants me to do free work to earn a job interview. I applied for a senior marketing position and, after an initial phone interview (with HR, who couldn't talk about marketing), I was told that the next step would be an in-person meeting with the department. Instead, I was sent three assignments to complete, all due in two days with "no late assignments

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[Dieselboy]

@dean :
Modified post to include link to the article.

[Dieselboy]

Great article!
One of my last roles, they would respond to candidate's applications with a coding assignment with a set time limit. My eyebrows went so high when I heard this that they ended up on the back of my neck. Their argument was that they wanted a way to quickly remove people that had the "gift of the gab" or salesmen speak (where they can talk the talk but not walk the walk).

However, this should be a relatively simple task if the already-hired experts in the field had a conversation with the candidate about their work. And like the article states, dont work for free. It's a huge red flag.

[deanwebb]

Yes. DO NOT WORK FOR FREE.