Online interview presentation help!

[MyNameIsGeraldine]

Hello.. I would really appreciate some help/tips!

I have an interview for my dream job. It’s an online interview and I have been asked to prepare a presentation which has to be emailed to them a week before the actual interview. I then do the actual presentation at the beginning of the online interview...

I’ve prepared a presentation, but it’s not something I have lots of practice of..
I have text of what I’m going to say in notes. Do I email the whole thing to them? Do I pre record with my voice and send this? Can I pre record the whole thing, and send it as a video (just the screen)?

Help! It’s my dream job, first senior position and I need all the help I can get!

Thanks 😊

Hi

You email them a PPT PowerPoint with slides that have your presentation on it, how many slides have you done?

Ensure all headings are equally sizes all bullets align and no typos, use Helvetica and stick to black and white and avoid all clip art.

I'd make a copy with the notes on for the day of the meeting, I'd also make sure that my teams or other platform fully supported screen share and I was able to be smooth with the tech of online presentation, and I'd practice and check mic works, settings allow screen share etc.

The actually tech side for me is important when interviewing, I'm going to be honest and say I have about 50% of people fluff up mics, muting, bad camera positions and lack of knowledges how to screen share.

I get people with headphones causing the most issues, not hearing, headphones not working etc. if you can avoid headphones that helps.

Unless the instructions explicitly say otherwise, I would have thought they're simply asking you to email the slides.

Have you prepared slides?

Hello @whyamiawakestill
This is great advice! Thanks so much. I have 10 slides for 10 mins (but this includes title screen and thank you slide). Thankfully I hadn’t included any clip art ;)

Wont use headphones (was wondering if I should..)

@user628468523532453 Yes, it’s nearly all done! Thanks, will just send slides then..and not include presenter notes?

Make sure you check the accessibility of your slides.

Disagree about not using headphones! Headphones are needed to prevent echo / feedback loop - I know lots of web conferencing software have built-in echo cancellation, but it's never 100% effective and I certainly wouldn't want to rely on it for an interview.

Very off-putting for an interviewer to hear themselves echoing back because your mic is picking them up through your speakers.

I'd only send the slides.

World Blind Union has a guide to creating accessible PowerPoint presentations: https://www.ifla.org/publications/guidelines-created-by-the-world-blind-union-wbu-on-how-to-make-the-use-of-powerpoint-and-other-visual-presentations-accessible/

Practice with your set up beforehand so you’re happy that when you share your slides, you can still see the interview panel and you’re looking at your camera too. Sometimes it takes a bit of playing around to ensure that all works fine.

I can't believe there are 3 of us on this short (so far) thread that care know about this! @Cornishmumofone

OP, it's worth asking what the interviewers expect to receive. It's possible that they might share the screen and your slides for you as not all of us reliably have the bandwidth to share slides and appear on video.

Online interviews are your friend! You can have so many notes to hand to prompt yourself. I got my dream job via an online interview process. I had lots of notes and post-it notes around my screen. Which they obviously couldn't see. And no.. don't send them your notes... they are for you. Not them. And don't record your voice... you'll be talking them through your PPT.

When I did mine, I had control of the slides so I could move to the next slide when I needed to. Good luck OP.