PowerPoint help

lydanial · Brolly Dolly Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Karma :

Please help.

I've got to complete a PowerPoint presentation of 15 minutes long about me, for a job interview Monday. I'm on short notice as got a call yesterday about the role and was away till now.
basically it's for a sales role all I've got to put in stuff about my skills, what drives me, what I can bring to the company, and I shops past achievements/ key accounts.

I'm not after people doing this for me, but more if someone has done something similar before and I can use their template and change their wording to fit around me.

what would be perfect is someone's PowerPoint presentation for a sales role!

I'm not trying to be lazy as today and tomorrow will be spent on this and researching the company.

daemonoid · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Karma :

Not much help with the actual content, but have a look at prezi.com - the presentations look much better than PowerPoint. Make sure you have a PowerPoint as a backup though...

I'd guess you do your CV with a few extra 'interesting facts' about yourself and try to make it fun. The delivery itself will be more important than the content.
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Burnside · Spanner Monkey Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Karma :

Theres a few templates on the Microsoft site, all free Thumbs Up

https://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/templates/results.aspx?qu=presentations
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cimbian · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Sep 2012 Karma :

What have you been selling?
How would you plan a pitch for it?
Use the same approach!

It really is the same.

They've given you some clues: WIIFM, Focus on the 'You appeal' and avoid 'I-Strain'

Make it relevant to their business, use time tomorrow to 'ask' your questions about the business whilst doing your research.
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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Remember that the presentation is about you not about Powerpoint. PP is just a tool for you to use not an end in itself. The worse lesson I ever observed was dominated by a PP presentation that used every trick that MS had built into it, I do not remember the contents of the lesson only the awfulness of the technology.
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Aff · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 May 2011 Karma :

Agree with the above.

I had to do a presentation in the interview for my current job.

They wont be too bothered about the content, more so how you handle yourself.

That's why I picked something I was really interested in and had a lot of knowledge about, that way you don't have to worry about what you have to say, and you will almost always come across as confident while you are talking about it.
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