interview + test
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- sammy2001
I've got an interview at the end of the week -- and they're going to give me a 30minute test on the Mac using Quark Xpress.
** has anyone else had to do this ? if so. any tips ?
- unknown0
Learn some shortcuts that you dont normally use, as they are guaranteed to ask. LEARN INDESIGN, we've just switched to it and its far better, its also gonna replace Quark!
- dsmith70
I agree, i'd definitely learn some shortcuts to impress them. Hope you know Quark and aren't just bs'ing. I use InDesign and don't know Quark too well but I am sure I could BS my way through it.
The truth is that your test shouldn't be on some computer program, it should be on your skills, theories and practices as a designer. Too many firms and designers are hiding behind computer applications to guide them rather than applying the real world practice of graphic design to their work. I am not saying that you aren't a good designer, I wouldn't know that. I am just saying that it is too bad so many companies put more value in how you can work rather than what you can accomplish.
- auricom0
TRUE DAT!!!!!
that and the fact that people want to see quantity more than quality.
- k0na_an0k0
yep i've taken the photoshop, quark, and illustrator tests before.
make sure you know what everything is called in the toolbox along with what it does. layers, forms and shapes were big too.
if the test is like the one i had to take it's online and you just fill in the blanks and yes/no. i scored pretty high on it only using quark twice so you should do fine.
- Tephlon0
I had 30 minutes to do some layouts.
this was for a magazine, so they gave me the text, the photo's and 30 minutes behind a PC.
Didn't get hired, but the designer did like what I did. Apparently the management didn't like the layouts too much.
well...
- jawbreaker0
about Quark...
From MacEdition:Publishing professionals who attended a Quark-convened 'executive summary' in New York last week are still a buzz over the performance of Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi... [who] told his squirming guests that "the Macintosh platform is shrinking, and that publishing is dying." He suggested that anyone dissatisfied with Quarkís Mac commitment should "switch to something else," although he insisted that making the move to Adobe's long-Carbonized InDesign package is 'committing suicide." "Everyone was stunned, and most folks left by noon," one attendee reported. 'It was awful," reports MacEdition.