20 Top Tips
Bad Presenting at Interviews
- Reading the words off the screen
- Photocopying your CV as your acetate
- Jargon: not all on the panel are medical
- Cramming too much on each slide
- Forgetting to introduce yourself
- Not preparing for questions
- Looking at one person throughout
- Apologising for your talk
- Not believing in yourself
- Standing between audience and screen
- Telling lies or exaggerating
- Sitting down for your presentation
- Not rehearsing, as you’re ‘better that way’
- Relying on the spellchecker
- Looking at the people who aren’t interested
- Making long lists to prove your point
- Telling them everything about your subject
- Copying your friend’s talk
- Reading neutral Body Language as negative
- Not rehearsing your introduction
- 20 Tips Bad Presenting at Interviews