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Posted: Wed 19 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: General, Travel, Work-related |4 Comments »Well, it all seemed to go pretty well, thank God.
I’ll know more in the next ten days or so – and hopefully sooner, rather than later – but the feedback on the day was positive, and it’d suit me nicely. In fact, yes, I actually want the job. *gasp*
The presentation went fine – considering I did it as a simple talk, rather than fucking about with PowerPoint® and so on. The specs of the interview had said “let us know if you need a projector etc.”, and I hadn’t done because I didn’t need one, but all the same, there was a projector, laptop, PowerPoint etc. already installed, set up, and running, but I didn’t use it. They seemed quite surprised and/or impressed that I didn’t – but as well as not being great with it anyway, I usually feel that PowerPoint presentations actually just show you can use PP, rather than necessarily understanding the subject, and what you’re on about. Which, in an interview like this one, is not an ideal situation.
So I did it on the fly, with some notes for reference to make sure that I didn’t forget anything, and that was all I needed.
But I still hate doing them.
I hate Powerpoint too, it’s cack …… the files are always humongously mahoosive too…… but it impresses those parts of the population that are technophobic.
I love Powerpoint. Why bother writing down notes, just chuck them into PP, make them bullets, et voila! A Powerpoint presentation.
I think a lot of people are put off because of the usual “chuck it all in the PP” approach, which is just wrong. The last presentation I did (that one in front of a room full of STRANGERS!) just gave me the bullet points to talk through… next thing you know, 45 mins have passed.
In saying that, I’ve never done one for a job interview, so I reckon the NON-PP approach probably stood out. Shows you think… well … let’s say differently. A good thing.
(just to clarify, I don’t LOVE PP, but it does have some value)
A hasty backtrack from Mr Mclean there 😉 We know you’re too cool to love PP Gordon!
I did a big PspitP presentation last week for himself – it was for a local government thang and bless ’em it’s PP or nowt. (They provide the computer, projector, etc., I just put the thing on cd.)
But to be fair, it was so easy to put together and then teach him to go through the slides. In the end I made it very short bullet points with lots of pictures the audience would recognise and let him do what he does best, bullshit. Er, I mean present.
Fingers & toes crossed for the job mate!