My interview slideshow crashed 10 minutes in, here's how I saved it

I was presenting to a hiring panel at a marketing firm in Austin last month, and my PowerPoint froze on slide 4 with 40 people staring at me. I had printed the key points earlier, so I just switched to the paper copies and talked through them while the IT guy rebooted my laptop. To my surprise, the team liked it more because it felt more like a conversation than a show. Has anyone else had a tech fail turn into a win, or did you just call it off?

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phoenix_thompson422d ago

Man, I used to think ditching the slides was a total fail, but your story flipped that for me. Sounds like just talking it out actually made you look more human up there.

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