I applied for a job and at first they didn’t tell me that I’m required to do a test work(to design book cover in 4 formats) within a week. They asked for my portfolio & asked a few other questions. They said they’re a US-based company & will open a company in KL so communication is through online for now. I sent him my portfolio then he said he liked what he saw, then asked me to do the test work. The problem is I couldn’t find much info on this company and I saw the same job posting using another company name on other job sites. I asked him before to tell me more about the company but instead of telling me he asked me to do the test work and said he got 80+ applications. My intuition is telling me no but I wanna hear from others if this is normal and I should do it?

Important things to note:
- He said the test work is an already published book on Amazon & showed me the book cover file. So it doesn’t look like he’s asking for free work.
- I have book cover designs in my portfolio so it doesn’t make sense that he needs another test to see if I can design book covers.

Do the test, but put ur watermark on it somewhere very visible and cant be erased easily so they cant use ur artwork without permission.

Scam alert, sirens are blaring loudly as we speak.

Why would some genuine company who do genuine works do not have any track records if they have been in existence in the US for a period of time?

Plus, why would they post the same ad across the Internet masquerading as different entities?

Food for thoughts. My dear Watson.

This post has been edited by vincentsiow: May 25 2024, 10:31 AM

The biggest red flag for me is not the test work but the complete ignoring of my question about his company. I kinda have an idea who the CEO(the one who communicated with me) is & I searched abt him. He seems to be an entrepreneur who wrote a few e-books and owned some stores but he hasn’t been active on socmed for a few years.

If someone is evasive about questions regarding their establishment during interviews, it would definitely be a big siren or red flags above my head.

Anyone could write a few ebooks due to the convenience of the net, not to mention that we have AI to do the grunt with for us nowadays. If he's successful and have nothing to hide, why being secretive in the first place?