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your presentation becoming a crisis.
Sadly, despite all the
advice available to them, many, many interviewees still disappoint their interviewers.
Some of this is down to the interviewer: poor job specification, poor initial
screening and so on. But if you are an interviewee, ask yourself the question:
if your life depended on being successful at this interview would you, could
you have prepared more? Would you look smarter, would you have more enthusiasm
and better questions? Would you
have researched the company more? Would you have role-played the tough
questions you might get with a good friend? You have probably answered yes. Well here’s the interesting thing:
your life does depend on it. The quality of life you eventually get depends
significantly on the quality of the job you accept. A couple of extra hours
work at this stage and even a missed episode of Grey’s Anatomy or The Shield
will save possible hours of pain every day in a job which is simply not you,
even though it does pay the rent. If you decide to accept an interview, prepare
as if your Life depended on it. It does.
Just a thought.
You too can have a new, improved, presentation. Cultural Offering shows you how.
If there is a fear beyond the fear of giving the presentation, there is the fear of taking questions during the presentation. And yet I would suggest questions from the audience to you are essential for two reasons: (1) the nature and number of the questions you receive correlates closely with the buy-in and understanding of the audience i.e. have you done what you were there for? And (2) it causes you to think on your feet and raise your game-a natural accelerator for developing your best presenting skills.
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