Knockout Job Interview Presentations: How to Present with Confidence, Beat the Competition and Impress Your Way into a Top Job by Rebecca Corfield

Author:Rebecca Corfield [Corfield, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: 0749457155 9780749457150
Published: 2011-01-08T05:50:46.620000+00:00

62  Knockout job interview presentations

Connecting with the audience

Think of all the speakers you have listened to, the conferences you have attended, the presenters you have seen. The people who most get to you don’t sit with their heads buried in a script or a book as they speak. That is why leading politicians use the autocue, so that they can have the words in front of them but still give the impression of looking at the audience. We need a way to have a reminder of what we want to say but we also need to have a direct connection with our audience. This is particularly true at a presentation in an interview, when we need to convince them to employ us.

Your impact with your audience increases proportionately with the amount of time you manage to have eye contact with the people you are talking to. Read every word from the printed page and the panel will feel quite distanced from you.

Look often at your audience and they will feel you are talking directly to them and they will attend and remember much more.

Flexibility and impact

Prompt cards do not provide you with a total script, just a guide to the key points you want to convey, leaving you with a certain amount of flexibility in the way you choose to do this. This is what helps with impact though, as you will sound much more immediate and conversational than if you were reading out every single word.

Be aware that the words you use will form part of the impression you create. Mild terms and gentle adjectives will create a picture of someone safe and mainstream. Strong descriptors and tough phrases will indicate a robust attitude.

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