Second Interview - Presentation - Advice?

I can highly recommend getting away from powerpoint and using Prezi. It's free and awesome! I recently did a presentation with it for my 2nd year at uni and got 95% - my highest mark all year. People who used boring old powerpoint got under 70.

Seriously, give it a shot :D

http://prezi.com
 
wth guys, is this GD or not? We need more vibration jokes. I vote for you using a tiny image of a bullet vibrator as your bullet points.
 
tomw92 said:
I can highly recommend getting away from powerpoint and using Prezi. It's free and awesome! I recently did a presentation with it for my 2nd year at uni and got 95% - my highest mark all year. People who used boring old powerpoint got under 70.

Seriously, give it a shot :D

http://prezi.com
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Prezi needs to be used with care. It's very easy to make every nauseous and detract from your message. Good presentations are about ideas and how you express them rather than the tool used to present them.
 
WrathOfAchilles said:
Make sure your powerpoint has images spinning around and the text HAS to have sounds. Nothing is more professional than the header coming on screen with a shwooooosh.

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Come up with a simple structure, knowing your audience is important here. Are you presenting to people with subject matter knowledge or not? In some cases they have a HR bod with no knowledge and a subject matter expert so need to build up from basics to advanced. If they are all subject noobs then spend more time on introduction etc

Introduction
ANSWER THE QUESTION YOU WERE ASKED - easy to fill 10 mins on basics and build up then realise you didnt actually answer the Q!
Summary / your views
etc
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Don't be a fool, I'll have every letter coming in 1 at a time with a 'typing' sound and the occasionally title swirling in!

Shouldn't be a problem making sure I answer the question. Gonna start with an introduction and a 'what is' slide which shouldn't take more than a few minutes at the most, then start on the question. As for the audience, its 2 or 3 people and given that 1 of them is the Lead Bespoke Engineer I'm pretty sure he knows the stuff.

I suppose I could include a summary at the end just to round things off before I see if they have any questions.

Burnsy2023 said:
Prezi needs to be used with care. It's very easy to make every nauseous and detract from your message. Good presentations are about ideas and how you express them rather than the tool used to present them.
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Yeah I highly doubt it was the program you used and not the content and presentation.
 
Don't put much on slides, keep them very minimal. Whenever you have something on a slide behind you, the group won't be listening to you.
 
Take copies of your slides as printed handouts for people to make notes should they wish.

Also bullet cards as prompts for yourself is fine.

Keep to one graph or diagram per slide.

Very few bullet points on slides, in plain simple English then talk about it yourself in more detail.

Don't cram a book on each slide.
 
Oxy said:
Take copies of your slides as printed handouts for people to make notes should they wish.

Also bullet cards as prompts for yourself is fine.

Keep to one graph or diagram per slide.

Very few bullet points on slides, in plain simple English then talk about it yourself in more detail.

Don't cram a book on each slide.
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Already asked the agency how many people would be attending for that very reason.

Was trying to stick to either 2 rows of bullet points or 1 row + image per slide. I've tried to keep the bullet points simple and brief.

Also churned out a couple of other slides related to possible questions. If it turns out the presentation is too short I'll probably just include them and think up some others as it'll look good to have prepared some extra ones.
 
Evilsod said:
Already asked the agency how many people would be attending for that very reason.

Was trying to stick to either 2 rows of bullet points or 1 row + image per slide. I've tried to keep the bullet points simple and brief.

Also churned out a couple of other slides related to possible questions. If it turns out the presentation is too short I'll probably just include them and think up some others as it'll look good to have prepared some extra ones.
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Sounds like you have it under control.

Learn you presentation, practice saying it to you mum, dad, sister etc.

Don't read from a script but I'm sure you know that.

It's all about being prepared.

Taking print outs is good in case technology fails you.

I have it all the time where VC facilities don't work, projector is broke or we get a room change.
 
Plan your presentation so that you leave sufficient time for a cabaret song. They'll be amazed by your versatility and range. Encourage them to join in to show that you're a team player. Finish the presentation by pulling both hands into pistol shapes and pretend to shoot each of them in turn, blowing pretend smoke away from your hands. Leave the room without another word and wait for the offers to come rolling in.
 
Wow, some actual useful information.

So I'll chip in with 'stand there with your nuts casually dangling out the front of your trousers'. Great icebreaker. Don't listen to mags, he's a bit odd in the head.
 
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