Creative and media interview questions

Bring your work. Creative interviews are mostly about your portfolio, your process and how you take feedback.

Questions for this field

Walk us through a project from the brief to the finished work.
How to answer
- Cover the brief, your ideas, what you chose and why, and how it turned out.
- Show drafts or sketches if you can, not only the final piece.
- Say what the client or audience thought.
How do you take feedback on your work?
How to answer
- Show you listen first, ask questions and separate the work from yourself.
- Give a time feedback made a piece better.
- Avoid sounding defensive.
How do you meet a deadline when you are not happy with the work yet?
How to answer
- Explain how you decide what matters most and when something is good enough to deliver.
- Say you communicate early if a deadline is at risk.
- Give a real example.
Which tools do you use and how do you learn new ones?
How to answer
- Name the tools you are strongest in and what you made with them.
- Show how you learn: tutorials, practice projects, asking others.
- Be honest about what you do not know yet.

Tell us about yourself.
How to answer
- Keep it to about a minute: who you are, what you study or did, and why you are here.
- Start with your course and school, add one or two things you are proud of (a project, a placement), then say what you want next.
- Do not read out your whole CV. Pick the parts that fit this role.
What are your strengths?
How to answer
- Choose two or three strengths that matter for this job, not a long list.
- Back each one with a short real example: a time you showed it.
- Say it plainly, for example: “I am organised. In my final-year project I kept a team of four on schedule.”
What is your weakness?
How to answer
- Pick a real weakness that does not stop you doing the job, such as speaking up in big groups.
- Say what you are doing about it and a small sign of progress.
- Avoid fake weaknesses like “I work too hard”. Interviewers hear them every day.
Why should we choose you?
How to answer
- Match what they asked for in the advert with something you have actually done.
- Mention your attitude too: you learn fast, you turn up, you take feedback well, if it is true.
- End with what you would bring in your first few months.

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