Pro practiceCreative Director practice interview
Setting the creative vision, improving ideas and craft, presenting work to clients and leading multidisciplinary teams. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A creative director is accountable for the quality and direction of an agency's creative output. The role combines idea judgement, hands-on craft, client influence, team leadership and practical production decisions. The panel will assess both the work in your portfolio and how you helped teams, clients and partners make that work better.
How to prepare
- Edit your portfolio to a small set of campaigns that reveal range, judgement and your precise contribution.
- Prepare to explain how strategy shaped each idea and how the idea adapted across channels.
- Choose an example of improving weak work through feedback without taking the work away from its creators.
- Rehearse a client challenge involving risk, taste, brand fit or production cost.
- Think through how you set standards, allocate briefs and develop emerging creative leaders.
Common mistakes
- Showing polished work without separating your contribution from the team's contribution.
- Defending ideas through personal taste instead of strategy, audience and brand fit.
- Giving vague feedback such as making the work stronger or more exciting.
- Ignoring production constraints until they threaten the idea or deadline.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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