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Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interview Tips

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I thought this SlideShare titled "Resumes and Interview Techniques (North American Style)" was interesting and enlightening. While the instructor was giving good techniques and ideas for resume building, he also included great pictures and diagrams to help stimulate the audience. I think he really agreed with the slogan, "If you can't say it with words, use a picture." But also lightened his slide show with pictures to make the audience more perceptive to his message and presentation.

What I didn't like about this presentation is it seemed the author was trying to market his speech toward a professional audience at a conference, but he used interesting pictures and sometimes eluded to college humor and pictures and expressions that didn't seem to fit with his intended audience.

I found some interesting tips for presentations here that may be helpful in making my presentation for class.
Here were five tips I thought were interesting and this blogger explains them in great detail to make sure the presentation is great.
1. Know your audience well.
2. Learn to study the body language of your audience.
3. Ask friends for honest/frank feedback.
4. Prepare a map of land-mines (or topics to stay away from).
5. Learn the subject you are going to be presenting thoroughly.

With this, I'm going to start on my presentation and brainstorm some ideas for a great topic to cover and get to know SlideShare more in depth.