Presentation for job interview - help please.

Jim_Bean

Hello everyone, I am new around here but have been reading for a while...

I have a job interview in a couple of weeks and part of the interview is a presentation which I need some help on please.

The job is for a performance and project manager for an organisation that provides services and support to children and also promotes education and learning to people of all ages.

The presentation (5 mins) needs to be about "How I would tackle the key performance related challanges facing the xxxxxxxxxxxx department?"

The problem is the area that this department is vast and varied and to be honest I don't have much idea about everything it covers so can't possibly see how anyone external could present to that brief.

Does anyone possibly have any bright ideas where to start?

Thanks so much.

Jim

Tammer

Hi,

That's a really tough one and 5 minutes is hardly any time at all.

If you don't know what the performance challenges are at the moment (assuming that you can't get this information from the press or the organisation's brochures, or from an earlier part of the interview) then I'd suggest that the presentation focusses on exactly how you will establish what the challenges are.

You'd then go on to cover at a high level how you'd go about resolving the results of your analysis.

vixarooni

Not really helping on content here, but in five minutes you have i would produce a slideshow with about 5 slides on. With say about 5 bullet points on each slide. Don't cram the slides with info because theyre listening to you talking, rather than reading the slides.

Content wise i would suggest heavily researching and picking out the best and most significant points if you can, or do what the above poster said.

Zazen999

step 1 - find out what the key performance related challenges are...
step 2 - find out about the individuals involved and their strengths, concerns, opportunities and threats
step 3 - work to build the team up, devise solutions to the problems, train advise and develop the weaker team members to fulfil objectives, delegate to stronger team members, develop measurements to suit in line with business plan
step 4 - monitor and continue to develop through continuous improvement
step 5 - review own and team's progress, seek feedback from management, colleagues, funders, etc al and measure progress, celebrate successes and address weaknesses.

yada yada yada

terryw

Zazen999 wrote: »

step 1 - find out what the key performance related challenges are...
step 2 - find out about the individuals involved and their strengths, concerns, opportunities and threats
step 3 - work to build the team up, devise solutions to the problems, train advise and develop the weaker team members to fulfil objectives, delegate to stronger team members, develop measurements to suit in line with business plan
step 4 - monitor and continue to develop through continuous improvement
step 5 - review own and team's progress, seek feedback from management, colleagues, funders, etc al and measure progress, celebrate successes and address weaknesses.

yada yada yada

I am very impressed mate. well done. You have done this sort of before, have you not.

terryw

Zazen999

terryw wrote: »

I am very impressed mate. well done. You have done this sort of before, have you not.

terryw

Unfortunately....yes.

I missed out step 6 - stick red hot poker into eyes to take away the pain of the old schoolers who just do not want to change, and who cry 'bullying' when you ask them for simple tasks to be done. The interviewers don't really need to know about that side of it.

mountainofdebt

Not so much about the content but I hate presentations where the next bullet point 'flies' in.

Also print out copies each for the interview panel - with your name on the front sheet

Also make sure that the presentation opens on a different computer that you prepared the presentation on and save it in different formats - just in case

Pee

And make sure you could do it without the computer if you really had to, i.e. a power cut, although it shows your computer skills off nicely!

Jim_Bean

Zazen999 wrote: »

step 1 - find out what the key performance related challenges are...
step 2 - find out about the individuals involved and their strengths, concerns, opportunities and threats
step 3 - work to build the team up, devise solutions to the problems, train advise and develop the weaker team members to fulfil objectives, delegate to stronger team members, develop measurements to suit in line with business plan
step 4 - monitor and continue to develop through continuous improvement
step 5 - review own and team's progress, seek feedback from management, colleagues, funders, etc al and measure progress, celebrate successes and address weaknesses.

yada yada yada

Thanks so much Zazen999.... much appreciated...

(hope you aren't in the interview against me or i'm scr*wed )

Zazen999

Jim_Bean wrote: »

Thanks so much Zazen999.... much appreciated...

(hope you aren't in the interview against me or i'm scr*wed )

Nope, I don't do it anymore. I found FREEDOM!!!!!

[Good luck in your venture....I'm thinking of applying to be a teacher so from the frying pan into the fire].

sharkie

Take a few paper copies with you - just in case. It is amazing how many times people can't get the projector/laptop to work. You may end up standing the like a lemon, with no notes and no examples.

Take a copy of your cv with you to. about 25% of the jobs i've been to, misplaced my cv on the day on the interview