Advice on structuring interview presentation

[instantpotnoodle]

I have an interview in a couple of weeks and have to do a presentation on the "challenges and opportunities in [sector I'm interviewing for]"

How would you recommend structuring this? It's only a 5 min presentation. I'm feeling very rusty on interviews and really want this job!

If it's 5 mins you need to be very tight, that will fly by. Do no more than 3 slides I'd say and no more than 3 points per slide or you won't have time to cover everything. I'd do a brief 30 second snappy intro (write this last once you know your key points), 1 minute on challenges, pick no more than 3 (if need be you could group various challenges under umbrella headings), 1 minute on how you/your role would respond to those challenges, 1 minute on key opportunities, again no more than 3, 1 minute on how you can contribute to their company taking advantage of those then a very quick conclusion. Don't be tempted down a sidetrack even if it's something interesting. Depending on what you pick to talk about it might be nice to cover the opportunity part first, and don't forget that if you can only think of challenges or opportunities, you can always present one as the other, e.g. sustainability might fit as more of a challenge but you could also say it's an opportunity to lead the way, save money, review supply chain for efficiency, attract new customers with green credentials etc etc.

You could use an analysis tool like PESTLE or TEPIDOIL to help you identify what you want to talk about, if you had longer I would say you could talk through an analysis like that properly but in 5 mins you don't really have the time, but it could give you ideas to follow?