Topic: FAO Web and Graphic Designers - in fact any creative proffessionals!

[Matt S]

Ok good people of RAWK, just looking for a bit of advice/clarification.

Say you had an interview for a digital creative role, the interviewer has 'had a close look' at your online portfolio.

What do you take to the interview? Naturally you need to take your work along, but would you prepare nicely designed printed pages of the work you want to show, do you simply take a list of websites that you've designed to show, or do you take a laptop pre-loaded with the work you wish to display?

I'm not really sure what 'the done thing' would be considering the role is for a digital designer?

What do we think?

[Claire.]

I took a laptop with a website portfolio, set my laptop to open only the browser on login and the local version of the site as my homepage. So as the introductions and 'do you want a drink?' pleasantries ended I was good to go and everything all open for me to talk things through. Stops the arsing about with stuff being open you don't want and the inevitable fluster to find what you need.

[iSmiff]

hint

if you take your laptop to show your work, remove all your bookmarks , especially the ones to porn sites in your tabs

[CHOPPER]

Take or borrow a mac and you'll walk the interview. You won't even need to switch it on.

[ElSheak]

Charge the laptop

[Mudface_]

Screaming as you run at it, or silently but with deadly purpose?

[iSmiff]

VISA or Mastercard?

[♠Dirty Harry♠]

Take Laptop and have everything ready on it, I remember going for an interview with a USB drive and their laptop's plugins were fucked, ran slow as hell and didn't connect well with the external monitor.

Come with your own computer and have everything ready before hand, and hibernate the computer to save power but also your open items.

Also have a desktop background that has I heart 'company offering job'.

Now to hijack the thread, anyone know what the font below is?

[SP]

Now to hijack the thread, anyone know what the font below is?

Have you tried WhatTheFont?

WhatTheFont

[kitster]

Now to hijack the thread, anyone know what the font below is?

Its fairly similar to the 'Diavlo' bold font. Does it need to be that exact one?

[kitster]

Have you tried WhatTheFont?

WhatTheFont

never seen that before.  very handy, cheers. 

[SP]

Matt,

Quick tip. It's "professionals".

[zero zero]

You much better off taking your own laptop, but make sure that everything visible on your computer give off the required serious mindedness at the portfolio presentation.

Do remember to have it fully charged. I once interviewed som one who became unnecessarily rattled when his 'charge level warning' came on mid presentation. Besides it undermines any credibility for claims you may make for your attention to detail.

Good luck

[ElSheak]

I'd like to imagine that they've seen your work, realised you could do the job and are now, really, just having you in to explain the role, the company and to see whether you'd fit in with their existing team and how well you'd outface (ie talk to clients etc).

Good luck.

[boots]

I always thought that the 'Spud' technique for interviews as shown on trainspotting was the way to go.

"Your leisure is my pleasure"

[The Jackal]

I always thought that the 'Spud' technique for interviews as shown on trainspotting was the way to go.

"Your leisure is my pleasure"

I take it you're unemployed then.. 

[♠Dirty Harry♠]

Have you tried WhatTheFont?

WhatTheFont

Yeah, cheers though

Its fairly similar to the 'Diavlo' bold font. Does it need to be that exact one?

Was first one I thought of, but no cigar, this one's not as Gothic. It's not really all that important, just thought it was a decent title font .

[Matt S]

I'd like to imagine that they've seen your work, realised you could do the job and are now, really, just having you in to explain the role, the company and to see whether you'd fit in with their existing team and how well you'd outface (ie talk to clients etc).

Good luck.

I'd hope so! We'll see though.

Can't really have local copies of websites on the laptop, as most of what I would show has been carried out in my current employment. But I can pre-load the various websites, then sleep the laptop ensuring minimal fuss when I get to the interview.

Cheers for the advice people.

[Buck Pete]

Hi Guys

Basic question sorry

What is this effect called when you scroll down a web page. I want to do something similar on mine

You can see what i mean on this fashion website  https://paperlondon.com/

cheers

[Craig S]

Parallax scrolling
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_parallax.asp

[Buck Pete]

Cheers Craig.  My Wix website has that feature so happy days

[Claire.]

My Wix website

Dagger in the heart of web professionals everywhere.

[Buck Pete]

Dagger in the heart of web professionals everywhere.

Sorry Claire

Its easy for whoppers like me to get a site up and running

Sure some of the ace websites I see on my surfing travels are no way done on Wix like