Yesterday I had the pleasure (?) to watch a prensetation about social networking of Piraues Univesity. I would like to point some common mistakes that I found which you should generaly avoid.
1)One of the things the speaker said, was about paying a company to create your facebook, twitter, wordpress and other social network accounts so
that, no wrong impressions are made to possible employers who try to find employees over the net. Well guess what, if I was an employer, I wouldn't even bother to look at your resume! Hiring a company to do such a simple job, which demands so little time, means first, thats you are incapable of managing simple tasks requiring minimal effort and second, you are incapable to promote your image ( even if that personal touch is not the best possible ) and you want to hire some else to get the job done, minning you don't have a character, meaning you are not capable of critical thinking and dessision making.
that, no wrong impressions are made to possible employers who try to find employees over the net. Well guess what, if I was an employer, I wouldn't even bother to look at your resume! Hiring a company to do such a simple job, which demands so little time, means first, thats you are incapable of managing simple tasks requiring minimal effort and second, you are incapable to promote your image ( even if that personal touch is not the best possible ) and you want to hire some else to get the job done, minning you don't have a character, meaning you are not capable of critical thinking and dessision making.
2)Adjust you presentation to the current reality. One of the big mistakes of the speaker was to talk about the chances of employability using social networking to Greek citizens, having on her mind USA. This is wrong, adjust you presentations and create paradigms to current cituations, generalizations should be avoided!
3)Also another thing that i really hate about presentations is generalities. Showing a slide with a paragraph and talking a bunch of words about it, is completely unprofessional and shows luck of organization. When you want to support your opinion do it by using bibliography, paradigms and stats. You can tell me what is good or right to do, but showing it with a simple example could make things much more easy!
4)Also it is of great importance to speak ONE language during presentations. For example using greek language and english terminology is acceptable, but when the presenation is in greek and in five words one is in english and this can be avoided it gets frustating.
5)Promoting you work is good and nessecary, hiding your clients identity is professional, but mentioning repeatedly previous collaborations without mentioning your client reduces the value of your work and creates supsicions whether you say the truth or not.
6)Talking to the point is of much better use and less tiring than repeating the same arguments in a different way over and over again. It may fill time and show you are a capable of handling vocabulary, but for an observative listener it is frustrating!
7)Finally let your audience take part in the conversation. Talking for hours ( 4 in particular ) and leting time for questions only in the last ten minutes, shows disrespect and one way communication. It is better to seperate your presentation to smaller parts letting people tell their questions and ideas. Your job is to suggest, not to impose!
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