Workplace reviews and discussion: 華奧博岩品牌創研有限公司

The interview room was beautifully arranged; I only found out later that it was the bosses’ office.

Applied for a brand planning position

“Because we’re curious about the national university you attended, we wanted to invite you in for a chat.”

Looking back, the female boss was very good at using bureaucratic-sounding language and praising my copywriting abilities.

Then she told me about a case related to the position. It was only toward the end that I realized she was hinting at me.

I had no choice but to ask her directly whether I had any chance of getting the job.

She actually said it would depend on what the boss thought.

The subsequent written test involved coming up with a name for a brand based on an article created from scratch and writing a simple proposal.

But the written test was not actually the key factor in hiring; what mattered was whether the female boss was satisfied.

The office was a split-level space in a residence used by the company. There were two planners on the first floor and five or six young graphic designers on the second floor.

The projects they handled were all CIS projects for small and medium-sized enterprises. She said they relied on regular clients and did not need to spend time looking for business.

So the reason they were busy recruiting people was probably just that the female boss was bored and wanted someone to chat with.