Interview Presentation. To powerpoint or not?

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Have an interview next week and need to do a 15 minute presentation. They've offered projectors, flip-charts, laptops, macs etc but my preference would probably be to just stand in front of them for the presentation.

Last year I had to do something similar at another interview and, despite normally being a confident public speaker, I sped through my very well rehearsed talk. Using a pause to reinforce a point doesn't work at speed!

Guess it was nerves, but strange as I knew it wasn't the job for me before I did my talk.

I thought about maybe doing a 2-slide presentation.
Slide 1 "How many PP presentations that you've seen do you remember?"
Slide 2 "None!"
and then just talk, but might be too cheesy.

As with all my applications, I'm probably a wild-card, a disruptive force for change, so I'm already going to have a different background to the others, but I'm early on day 1 of 2 interview days (with a week between them), so want to be remembered.

Lunch with other applicants is something I've never seen on a schedule before!

[22]

Thanks all. Wait ages for an interview and now have two next week. I'm glad the general opinion is to avoid PP and the such, this was my preference but wanted to check I wasn't missing a trick.

For this interview I've met the team before so should be relaxed. I'm normally quite naturally confident, but (hopefully) not arrogant with it.

The other vacancy I spotted a day after closing date and rang to ask (this was yesterday). Was sent an application which I quickly filled in and returned and got invited for interview next week (Weds). It's basically my dream job, so now I need to get motivated for the original interview (Thurs) which requires a bit more preparation.