Digital, content, brand, design, video, PR

Marketing, Media & Creative interviews. Scored the way the field scores.

56 job titles across 6 specialisms. Pick yours to see what interviewers score, the questions they ask, and where candidates lose it, then practise it live.

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What interviewers in Marketing keep scoring

Every title has its own model, but these competencies come up again and again. Each title page shows what a weak, adequate and strong answer looks like for each one.

Positioning & messaging

Defines who the product or brand is for, the problem it solves, and why it wins against alternatives; turns that into messaging hierarchies and proof points that sales and content teams actually use.

Customer & market insight

Builds understanding of customers and competitors through research, data and direct conversations: segments, personas, jobs to be done, competitive intelligence, and turns insight into decisions.

Go-to-market planning & launches

Plans and runs launches: objectives, target segments, channel plan, sales enablement, pricing and packaging input, launch timeline and post-launch measurement, coordinating product, sales and marketing.

Brand strategy & management

Builds and protects the brand: strategy and architecture, identity and guidelines, campaign development, agency management, and measurement of awareness, consideration and equity.

Sales & channel enablement

Equips sales, partners and retail with what they need to sell: pitch decks, battle cards, demos, objection handling, training and collateral, measured by adoption and win rates.

Campaign development & agency management

Develops integrated campaigns from insight to execution: writes briefs, manages agencies and creative teams, evaluates creative against the objective, and controls budget and timelines.

Cross-functional influence

Influences product, sales and leadership without authority: brings customer evidence to roadmap decisions, aligns teams on launches, and negotiates priorities and trade-offs.

Paid media planning & optimisation

Plans, launches and optimises paid campaigns across search, social and programmatic: structures accounts, sets bids and budgets, tests creative and audiences and improves cost per result over time.

Analytics, tracking & attribution

Sets up and trusts measurement: tagging and conversion tracking, GA4 or equivalent, attribution models and their limits, and turns data into decisions rather than dashboards.

SEO & organic growth

Grows organic traffic and conversions: keyword and intent research, technical SEO fixes, content briefs, on-page optimisation and link or authority building, measured against rankings and traffic.

Conversion rate optimisation & experimentation

Improves the funnel after the click: analyses drop-off, forms hypotheses, runs A/B tests with valid design, and ships winners; understands statistical significance and sample size.

Email, CRM & lifecycle marketing

Builds automated lifecycle journeys (welcome, nurture, cart abandonment, retention) with segmentation, personalisation and consent compliance, measured on engagement and revenue.

Interview like a Marketing hiring manager would.

Thirty minutes, voice to voice, scored against the competencies above. Five minutes of it free.