The website was founded in April 2013, by recruitment consultant and interview coach Matthew Chulaw, owner of InterviewPenguin.com , a leading online portal in career advice and job interview preparation niche.
From January 2013 to June 2015, Matthew cooperated with a group of other interview coaches and recruitment experts, establishing more than a dozen small websites, each of them specializing in a single job field (teacher, manager, pharmacist, graphic designer, etc).
Two people cooperated on the website dedicated to graphic design job applicants.
See a screenshot from Google Analytics below:
- More than 190,000 job seekers visited the website since May 2013. We have recorded more than 430,000 page views.
- We have welcomed visitors from 197 different countries, led by United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
- The website has been shared and linked to numerous times, receiving traffic from 456 different traffic sources over the years, with the leading five being Google, Bing, Yahoo, Reddit and Twitter.
More about the author
Matthew ran a successful recruitment consultancy New Generation Recruitment, established back in 2008. IRBIS, IBM, Orange Eemployment, Siemens, O’Donnel Griffin belonged to his clients, together with other smaller companies from different parts of the world.
He would probably still work in the field of recruitment, leading interviews and consulting employers, if Iranian security police didn’t arrest him in Tehran on 23rd August 2012, while he was working on one of his recruitment projects in the country.
Iranian authorities accused Matthew of spying for the CIA. He spent six months in notorious Evin Prison, facing harsh conditions of solitary confinement and a possibility of a death sentence.
Iranians eventually released him in February 2013, but after what had happened to him in Iran, he could not return to recruitment anymore. He turns his interest online, helping the job seekers instead of the employers.
In the following years he joined forces with other recruiters and interview coaches, and established both small and big websites in the career niche. GraphicDesignInterviewQuestions.com is one of them.
Matthew still occasionally consults employers and participates in the interviews, but he focuses mostly on his online projects, speaking assignments, and writing career.
* Matthew Chullaw is a pseudonym the author uses to distinguish his interview coaching career from the rest of his activities.
