Help! Interview tomorrow but should I have done a presentation?

[whompingwillo]

I have an interview tomorrow and I thought that the presentation was on the scenario that they will presumably provide.

looking at the email again do you think I should have prepared a separate presentation?!

this is literally all the info on the email other than the location …

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’You’ll be expected to give a presentation at your interview.

We will give you a clinical scenario for you to discuss a management plan.
You will be given 10-20 mins to complete this and will discuss as part of the interview’

Sounds like it to me!

It looks like 2 separate questions.

Yes it looks like two separate items to me too.

Hmmm, it’s not clear. Could read it either way. Is the presentation about the clinical scenario? Or is it 2 separate tasks? I would think if they wanted a presentation, they would say a topic and time length?

No, I think the presentation is on the clinical scenario. Otherwise surely they would tell you what the presentation should be on, or how long it should be etc.

The thing is there is no title or subject or anything for the presentation?! Ahh what on earth do I do!

I think you are being given the topic at the time of the interview and the presentation doesn't mean a slide deck.

It’s the same task in my view (HR). A request for a presentation will always give a topic and time limit.

I disagree with the folk above

Fine to tell you you’ll be expected to give a presentation. Great. Err on what? What topic? Your cat? Your favourite foods? It would be usual to provide the topic.

so I believe they’re telling you you’ll be giving a presentation on a clinical scenario and they’ll give you up to 20 mins to get this polished and then you’ll discuss this presentation as part of your interview

Oh and good luck!

@whompingwillochill! It is most definitely not two separate issues. You would never be told to just ‘give a presentation’ so the previous couple of posters have got that wrong

It's really unclear but yes sounds like a presentation and then the discussion. But a presentation on what?

Maybe it is just all for one task ... how confusing.

Do a quick presentation on the importance of being clear and non ambiguous in requests!

Nurse, please prepare the patient for surgery at 9am (is the surgery at 9am or is that when we start preparing them??)

What's the role? Do you have a presentation you've used for something else you could quickly polish up just in case? If not, I don't think it's worth trying to put something together at this point with nothing to go on about what it should be on or how long it should be - if it's needed just be honest and say you misunderstood from their very unclear instructions!

It's a presentation on the clinical scenario they will share tomorrow. You'll be given time in the interview to design a management plan and then you'll be asked to present it, and then discuss it with the interviewers.

If they wanted a presentation they’d have told you the format (eg PowerPoint), the length, the subject and also probably to submit it in advance so they could make sure they had it saved on their laptop for the interview.

Agreed.

I read that to mean your presentation will be on a clinical scenario. That when you arrive you will be given a clinical scenario and given a 10-20 minutes to prepare to present a management plan of that scenario, which will be done in your interview and then discussed.

Just to say based on my feedback from a very engaged interview with JL, where I had to examine a 9 page report in 20 mins, then present conclusions/findings to certain questions for 10 mins, the feedback ultimately was that I hadn't presented my findings as a full presentation. So I think this is for you to engage with the task, then have to present. ( format: well who knows!).

That reads to me as 1) (essentially) please note you're going to have to do a presentation as part of the interview.

2. the form that takes is that you will be assigned a clinical scenario, be given 10-20 minutes to come up with a management plan and then present that to us for discussion.

If they expected you to prepare something there would be a topic assigned. I'd expect they instead want to see how you formulated a plan on your feet and how you speak/deal with stakeholders presenting it and discussing it.

Best of luck OP.

They will give you the scenario at the interview then they will give you 20 minutes to create your presentation before you deliver it

I think they will give you the subject at the interview and 20 mins to prepare. Good luck.

Ok phew this is what I initially thought and was just overthinking / panicking when reading it again!

Agree they’ll give you the topic. You could have a presentation app open with a header slide with your name on it and two more slides with blank headers and blank bullet points. Then you can complete it and email
them if they want it afterwards.

There was no additional presentation :D