employment presentation tests

Presentation – The Platform Test

In some cases you may be asked to prepare a presentation for the organization. Sometimes they will give you the question or topic before hand or they may just ask you to prepare one on the day.

However, in any case there is definite guidelines that must be followed when giving a presentation:

• When given the topic or presentation question pick out the main points and write them down. Then think of an example that will fit into and cover all of these main points. For example, the question might be “ Your presentation should cover a successful project or task, which had an impact on others and you were accountable for the result?” Therefore, the main things you need to discuss are a successful project that you were responsible for and that also had an impact on others.
• Once you have identified a suitable project then you must use an appropriate format for the presentation.
• Firstly, you must introduce the presentation and highlight what aspects you are going to cover in the presentation. Everything from the outline of the project to the conclusion.
• Then you must talk through each aspect that has been identified in the introduction. Make sure that you talk through each one in the right order that has been stated.
• When you are talking make sure you have a watch near by to see how you are doing for time and make sure you do not go over the time limit.
• Do not go into too much detail, just make sure you stick to the main points and what is relevant.
• Talk at an appropriate level throughout the presentation and speak clearly
• Support ideas with relevant examples, facts, statistics etc
• Do not talk from notes or memorize a script make it more conversational and talk as you normally would do
• Make eye contact with everyone in the room and interact with them do not just talk at them
• Be aware of your body language. Do not cross legs, fidget etc
• If you are using power point or slides do not walk in front of the screen so that the audience can not see the information
• Before the presentation let someone else watch and listen to you. They can point out things to change for example, if you say a word like ok too much or if you do anything annoying like fidgeting.
• Always end the presentation well. Thank the audience for listening and offer to answer any questions they may have
• When answering the questions adopt this method: TRACT – Thank the questioner, Rephrase the question for the rest of the audience, Answer the question, Check with the questioner that you have answered the question appropriately and Thank the questioner again.

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