The interview went smoothly, and both interviewers were very friendly and seemed interested in my experience.
However, I want to make clear that besides the normal interview they requested me to complete two tasks: designing a bookmark and creating a small social media plan for their upcoming release Cosmo Park. Now this ''small social media plan'' was as below:
''Please create a plan for 2-3 social media posts for Cosmo Park. Please feel free to also list any additional ideas that you have for posts.
Please detail when you would plan to post them and on which platforms with examples of the written copy that you would use.
You can include visuals, but these do not need to be final.''
In addition to designing a whole bookmark, I also did this task, and created full visuals for 3 different social media posts, alongside with ideas.
As a designer, I'm used to tasks being part of the interview process, but as a maternity cover job that only pays £25k annum (in this economy is TOO low) these tasks where unnecessarily long. It's unpaid labour. Needless to say, I was ghosted, without even a ''No, thank you'' after all of this. I could see there were candidates before and after me waiting to go in, so I'm glad they at least got an efty supply of social media content ideas going forward for free.