Posted By CFT Ronan As with anything in life, to blow ones socks off involves a great deal more than a 15 minute presentation; or does it? Take those 3 words you started with and drop the middle one, you end up with a behavioural programme that you are involved in; it may be that other candidates are not able to present as well as yourself thus you could easily 'blow their socks off', you won't know beforehand of course so one must be prepared to certainly 'sock it to em!' The HSE in or around 2002 published some quality research on what you are about to present on, broken down of course as with most things there is actually a fairly simplistic approach to creating a captive audience and the content of this presentation will be but one part; say it is in 3 parts, (it's not, but for the purpose of your interview say it is) 1, The content of said presentation, (oh you can get as much or as little as you want and tailor it to the industry you are being interviewed by)2. You the person (under the spotlight, lots of subliminal questions going on, none you can hear either) so they are listening to how you get this across and how difficult have you made it, did you do what you were asked or what you thought they wanted?? 3. And finally, can we work with this guy, and do we want to or do we prefer the other one, and oops, he is actually better than me, 'not certain I want him in that case' so it's a no from me!' Rotten one that and only you can measure up the panel and do your best to get teh balance right on. So much you'll never know but approach it sensibly, give a presentation allowing reason and common sense to be in the content, smile, look at them as well, not just the screen and you could be quids in. Leave the room knowing you did your best and not that you could have done better, talk to yourself, run that presentation through over and over in your head, whilst walking the dog, watching TV and so on, anticipate questions they may ask you and practice the answer; getting in through the door is teh hardest part because it is the odds game. So there we are, forgive me if there was some egg sucking in there, we both know your good or you wouldn't have got this far, and yes, I have been on those panels as an independent a fair few times over the years. Go on, go for it. CFT