Question : OK so i have to give a presentation for a job interview?
I have to give a 10-15 min presentation for an interview next week. The prefer it to be on something medical, but it doesn’t have to be. I’m a massage therapist, chiropractic assit and an EMT. The job is for a training position. Teaching hospitals how to use the software…anybody have ideas on what to do my presentation about??
chiropractic software

Best answer:

Answer by Soliloquy

I had a teaching talk during the interview process for my current job, so I sympathize! The key thing, i think, is to know your audience. Who will you be giving this presentation to? If your audience will be MDs that know a lot about medicine but are unfamiliar with the software, you will have to structure your talk differently than if you were giving it to administrative assistants or people from the IT department. You want to make your presentation as tailored as possible for the audience that you have.

Were you given a specific topic or topics to choose from for this presentation? If not, take something from your background (possibly your EMT work for example) that you know quite a bit about, and use that to shape your presentation. They really dont care about the content (I know my audience didn’t) so much as they do one particular question: Are you able to successfully communicate the material you need to teach to your audience? For that, you could teach anything. They want to see HOW you teach, rather than what you teach. Keeping the type of audience in mind will really help you reach that goal, because you’ll know how to tailor your talk to reach THEM.

I ended up being on the interviewer side of the fence soon after I got my job, and we had a lot of people come through that were very talented, but after about 20 minutes of their teaching talks it was very obvious that they had no future as an instructor. This will be your chance to convince people through your presentation that you are the perfect person for the job.

Best of luck!