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Interview next week! Help!

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nervousnancy84 · 07/02/2023 21:08

I have an interview - my first in about 20 years - next week. It's for a marketing role. I've been told prior to the interview I will have a number of "unseen tasks" to complete. I'm really worried about this as I have no clue what they might be and so I can't prepare. I worked in marketing many years ago but have been out of work for the last 10 years raising my kids so I'm very much out of the loop. Does anyone in the industry have any ideas what this might entail?

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nervousnancy84 · 07/02/2023 21:46

Hopeful bump

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Christmaspyjamas · 07/02/2023 21:49

Yes. Probably:
Some editing or copywriting. You'll be given facts and have to write something for a specific channel such as email or Facebook
Some work from a supplier (eg graphic designer) to feed back on
An internal email to respond to
A data task in Excel

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nervousnancy84 · 07/02/2023 22:10

Thank you so much for replying. The copywriting and editing I'm fairly comfortable with. The rest, I'm not so sure. It's really hard when you're out of practice and unable to prepare fully.

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Dragonsandcats · 07/02/2023 22:12

I’m sorry I can’t help, but best of luck and hopefully this bumps your post.

Peabody25 · 07/02/2023 22:22

Is it for a marketing agency or a marketing dept within a larger company?

I'm in marketing in a local authority and our team covers all aspects or marketing as well as press and media.

Tasks we've had might be things like writing a comms plan from beginning to end so asking you to think about objectives, how you'll achieve them, target audiences, how you'll reach them, what channels you'll use, how you'll analyse the campaign and lessons learned. Two sub tasks might be write sone editorial or a press release and maybe some social media messages for example.

There's also been ones where people have been asked to prepare a presentation for 30-45 minutes then go into the interview and present it.

Or it might be something like you're given a specific budget to spend on example campaign and you've to work out how best to spend it.

Final one I've thought of, having an example scenario and having to to consider strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) for this.

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nervousnancy84 · 07/02/2023 22:41

Peabody25 · 07/02/2023 22:22

Is it for a marketing agency or a marketing dept within a larger company?

I'm in marketing in a local authority and our team covers all aspects or marketing as well as press and media.

Tasks we've had might be things like writing a comms plan from beginning to end so asking you to think about objectives, how you'll achieve them, target audiences, how you'll reach them, what channels you'll use, how you'll analyse the campaign and lessons learned. Two sub tasks might be write sone editorial or a press release and maybe some social media messages for example.

There's also been ones where people have been asked to prepare a presentation for 30-45 minutes then go into the interview and present it.

Or it might be something like you're given a specific budget to spend on example campaign and you've to work out how best to spend it.

Final one I've thought of, having an example scenario and having to to consider strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) for this.

Really helpful thanks. It's a marketing dept within a small company. I think mostly managing their social media and website.

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