Presentations 1

This is a common experience which scares the life out of many interviewees! As part of your interview you are required to give a presentation on a subject related to the job. This usually lasts for 5 to 10 minutes. Often you are warned before the interview, but sometimes it’s sprung upon you when you get there.

If you know the subject of your presentation in advance, you must prepare extremely well, which means putting together a professional presentation and practising it until you can do it in your sleep! If you are more likely to be given the brief when you arrive for interview, you can still do plenty of preparation. Just choose the topics which could come up and prepare those. Even if you don’t get an exact match, you’ll be so used to presenting, that you’ll able to put together an alternative very quickly. Bit like an exam really!

Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll look at each aspect of the presentation in detail. So stay tuned.

Waller

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