Effective Work Placement Presentation: A Comprehensive Guide

Present your findings via a presentation of a professional standard using PowerPoint. Where relevant and appropriate to the presentation, provide accompanying documents such as a Briefing Note or Presentation handouts.

Work Placement Presentation Aims the Presentation element of the Placement Assessment requires that you demonstrate you can effectively utilise your learning and skills from your work environment as well as your academic studies in order to:

 • Identify, and articulate the significance of a given issue or process for your organisation and/ or business environment;

• Analyse factors contributing to and impacting upon this issue or process and recommend appropriate actions for your organisation. The issue or process should be analysed and evaluated using knowledge and skills from your academic learning as well as the professional competencies developed during your placement year. The methods applied and sources used in your analysis and evaluation should be evident in the delivery of the presentation.

Work Placement Presentation Project Format: Slides and Contents

The presentation slides should:

• Be a maximum of 10 slides (excluding title page and where relevant, reference slide)

• Be written in language appropriate for a business context and should include the following:

1. The title slide should include your name, 9-digit student number (not your 6-digit candidate number), degree programme, project title and placement organisation.

2. The main slides (10 maximum) / Font Style: Arial, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma or Verdana, or corporate font used by placement organisation (e.g. mandatory Helvetica Neue).

Accompanying documents

The following elements of the presentation are not absolute requirements. Your presentation may not include a supplementary briefing note or supporting/complementary handouts as they might be superfluous to the topic and presentation objectives. Whether it is appropriate to provide additional materials is something which you should consider when planning / constructing your presentation.

Accompanying Briefing Note or Presentation handouts (Where relevant) - Maximum 5 pages (not including cover page):

Cover page including your name, 9-digit student number (not your 6 digit candidate number), degree programme, project title and placement organisation.

1. Font Style: Arial, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma or Verdana, or corporate font used by placement organisation,

The above requirements for presentation will be strictly adhered to.

Identify the Objective/s of Your Presentation Project:

• What is the topic of your presentation?

• Identification of your audience.

• Outcome – e.g. what actions (if any) you would like your audience to take following your presentation?

Evaluation of Your Audience:

• How much does the audience already know about the topic or what is their current position on the issue/process?

• How will you add new information and understanding in your presentation?

• Is there a need to convince them of a particular point of view?

You may not be able to answer these questions for each member of your audience, but you should have enough information to ensure that you have targeted your material at the correct or appropriate level for their needs. This might involve avoiding technical jargon or having to explaining abstract concepts with clear practical examples. If you fail to consider your audience’s needs, you are likely to fail in your overall objective of the presentation as the audience might have lost the thread of your argument or lost interest.

The Main Points and Supporting Information to be made during the Presentation:

• What are the main points you want to make?

• Consider if these main points reflect your own objectives and take account of the needs of the audience? (link back to steps 1 and 2)

• Have you included evidence to add clarity and authority to your argument? (Methods, supporting theories, models, frameworks or perhaps evidence from your own research)

• Have you included anything to add emphasis to your argument so (e.g. video clips, a practical example, an engaging exercise).

The Linear Flow of Your Presentation:

• What have you included to ensure that there is a clear linear flow to your presentation?

• At a basic level this is, to establish a suitable opening, followed by the main content and then appropriate