What are you looking for then?

As things have been a bit slow work-wise, I thought I’d revisit some of the freelance agents that are around. One was Beetroot Consulting. I registered on their site and sent my resume.

Today I got an email back:

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your interest in Beetroot.  We have carefully reviewed your details and we do not feel you are quite right for what we are looking for at this time.

The clients we represent have very specific needs and as we result of this we need to be very selective as to who we bring in for interview.

Good luck with your search.

Kind regards

So just to be clear, someone with over 18 years experience and a product of one of the best design schools in the world isn’t quite what they’re looking for?

What are they looking for if not for people with talent, experience and drive? Maybe God? Or perhaps they actually don’t have any experience in the industry and have just come from a general recruitment background and don’t know the first thing about design?

And they clearly don’t know how to word an email either.

Guess I’ll see the companies I used to work with and kept me constantly busy.

Comments

  1. Hadi
    June 29th, 2009 | 20:43

    Don’t give up Andrew… life’s too short to be mediocre.

  2. July 5th, 2009 | 14:22

    Keep at it. Do you have any experience of website design or examples I could look at. We’re setting up a website design company and may have work for graphic designers in the future. Good luck, your projects look great and there will be other opportunities for you.

  3. July 9th, 2009 | 19:28

    That looks like they didnt even read your enquiry. Standard email response perhaps?

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