The Interview Before the Interview has launched to help creatives prepare for job interviews.
The platform serves up a randomly generated series of questions from notable chief creative officers, executive creative directors and creative directors, keeping would-be interviewees on their toes.
The project was dreamed up by Katyana O’Neill, Emma Leamore and Pierce Thomson.
“It’s a funny irony that many of the creative talents who are great at selling brands and products can be terrible at selling themselves,” Leamore says.
Leamore, originally from the UK, is an award-winning copywriter who has worked in both London and Sydney.
For the past four and a half years she's been at The Monkeys, where she picked up a D&AD wood pencil for her work with UNICEF.
O’Neill is an Australian-born art director who has worked for independent agencies in Australia and NZ, and most recently worked The Monkeys, while Thomson has recently joined creative collective, The Glue Society.
The platform has already attracted the support of some world-class creative leaders.
“We’ve had a brilliant response. The generous creative leaders who have contributed are responsible for all of the insightful, thought-provoking and occasionally sweat-inducing questions on the site," O'Neill says.
"We cannot thank them enough.”
This contribution to the creative community also features a hire function, linking creative directors and recruiters with creatives looking for a role.
Current contributors:
- Adam Mandelstam - Integrated Creative Director at TBWA, Paris
- Alex Derwin - Executive Creative Director at BMF, Australia
- Anna Rose Kerr - Creative Director at Ketchum, London
- Ant Melder - Co-founder & Creative Partner at Coffee Cocoa Gunpowder, Sydney
- Anthony Moss - Group Executive Creative Director at DDB, Australia
- Asheen Naidu - Executive Creative Director at BWM, Sydney
- Barbara Humphries - Creative Director at The Monkeys, Sydney
- Ben Sampson - Senior Creative Partner at The Glue Society, Sydney
- Ben Welsh - Chief Creative Officer at DDB, Australia
- Charlotte Adorjan - Creative Director at AMV BBDO, London
- Darren Spiller - Chief Creative Officer
- David Nobay AKA Nobby
- Eduardo Marques - CCO Publicis Spain/Publicis Emil/Wysiwig/Nurun & Global Creative Director Telefónica, Madrid
- Gavin McLeod - Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy, Sydney
- Istvan Bracsok - Chief Creative Officer at White Rabbit, Budapest
- Jason Lawes - Freelance Creative Director, London
- Jonas Roth - Creative Director at Uncommon Creative Studio, London
- Justin Drape - Group CCO / Co-Founder at The Monkeys & Group CCO Accenture Interactive, ANZ
- Kim Pick - Executive Creative Director at VMLY&R, New Zealand
- Lizzie O’Hara-Boyce - Freelance Creative Director, London/Paris/Sydney
- Mandie van der Merwe - Executive Creative Director at M&C Saatchi, Australia
- Mark Hendy - Executive Creative Director at VCCP, Berlin
- Michael-Jason Hobbs - Creative Director at Collective, London
- Neil A Dawson - Co-Founder at Neil A Dawson & Company
- Nils Eberhardt - Creative Director at Special Group, Australia
- Oriel Davis-Lyons - Creative Director at Droga5, NYC
- Paul Catmur - Founder & ECD at BC&F Dentsu, Auckland
- Paul Copeland - ECD (regional) at Greater China Saatchi & Saatchi, APAC / CCO @ Small Creative Ltd
- Paul Sharp - Creative Director at VCCP, Sydney
- Richard Denney - Executive Creative Director at St Luke’s, London
- Rubba - Co-founder at East of Everything
- Scott Nowell - Group CCO / Co-Founder at The Monkeys & Group CCO Accenture Interactive, ANZ
- Seamus Higgins - VP Chief Creative Officer at R/GA, APAC
- Simon Vicars - Creative Director at adam&eveDDB, London
- Stefanie DiGianvincenzo – Creative Strategist at Facebook, Australia
- Stuart Alexander - Creative Director at The Monkeys, Sydney
- Tom Richards - Chief Creative Officer at Havas Lynx, Manchester
The Interview Before the Interview welcomes additional contributions, especially female creative leaders, and these can be submitted via the ‘Contribute’ button on the site.
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