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Topic: Career/Training

What Approach To Take For Interview Presentation?

Posted by rachellouise66 on 250 Points
Hello!

Looming overhead is a presentation for the CEO of my company, my supervisor and my immediate supervisor who runs the Marketing + Design department by herself (it has been around for 1 year, our parent company is German and has a 100 person Marketing dept.).

I got this job as a temp position- it was originally offered as an internship, but I had all the qualifications and had just graduated a month before it was offered. At that time, and currently, they hadn't created a second full time position as the Marketing half of the Marketing/Design department. The summer is over, and I need to create a presentation that tells them how necessary I have been and how I can be necessary in the future. To further illustrate how unique the position is, they don't have a set date for this presentation but they want me to have one.

I have been here for 3 months and I have accomplished so much! I have organized physical samples of our materials (manufacturing company), I have done physical tasks, I am building and sending out product catalogs, I am creating tradeshow materials.... I've done a ton of work involving my photography background and editing. Even so, I still feel like I am missing so much information, that I don't really know what I am doing.

I have been told that this is somehow part of the interview process. Because of my situation, the process is unique to me and not like this for anyone else. How should I format my presentation? What topics should I cover? They only want 5-10 minutes. I have never had an internship before, or a career-type job, so this is all new to me.

What would you want in a presentation from a somewhat-inexperienced temp who decided she wanted to stay?

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  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on Accepted
    From management's perspective, they're not as much interested in what tasks you've done (or how much time it has taken) but what has been the result of your actions - how many more leads, how many more customers, how many more website visitors, etc. So, if you have access to these numbers, and can make the case for "why hire me" you're in good shape.

    If you don't have this information, then a different approach would be what you could accomplish if hired. You've been around enough to know what they're trying to do, and only you know about where you could shine if given a chance. So, create a 90-day or 1-year plan, detailing the resources you'd need and the results you'd expect (and back them up with some reasonable data).

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