Job Search Final Presentation

Alrighty job seekers, you have searched high and low, reviewed, and reflected and now youre almost done with your
task. It is time to think about your learning and draft a Reflective Presentation. You will have 3 to 5 minutes to speak
about your learning from this unit of study. This means that you cannot share everything! You will have lots of freedom
in your choice so be creative. And, to support the content of your speech, you will gather all of your materials to create a
beautifully organized poster to host all of your hard work. Dont worry if youre not crafty, you can print your
documents for this showcase. What is most important is that you are going to share your learning; show your audience
how you made your choices and what information helped you to decide. Teach them what you learned about yourself
and your potential career field.

1. Review your work and select the most important information to share with your audience.
2. Draft your speech following the guidelines:
Introduction
1. _____ Begin the speech with an interesting or unique catchy phrase.
2. _____ Introduce yourself and clearly explains the purpose of the speech.
3. _____ State the job title you would like to have and a brief explanation of what this person does.
4. _____ Explain why you are interested in this career field.
Body
1.
2.
3.
4.

_____ Transition from the introduction to your first main idea.

_____ Explain a few steps from the hierarchy or basic statistics about the career.
_____ Transition and share your top five companies or parts of your company profile.
_____ Transition and share a bit from your interview or other research in general.

Conclusion
1. _____ Transition to the conclusion.
2. _____ Wrap up your speech with an appropriate concluding sentence or two.
3. _____ Re-state what you think is most important for the audience to remember from your speech.
4. _____ Thank the audience for their attention and offer to answer their questions.
3. Review your speech and decide information may cause confusion for audience members.
4. Plan what images would best help the audience to imagine what you are talking about or
clear up the areas where they may be confused.
5. Create a poster for your presentation following the guidelines.
Poster Guidelines
1. Your poster must be on paper (medium or large poster paper or 3 fold presentation screen).
2. The poster must be legible from the back of the classroom so entire audience can understand it.
3. The poster must contribute to your speechto clarify your point or content.
Your speech and sketch of your poster are due this Tuesday. We will peer review both.
Your speech and presentation are worth 75 points.

Helpful tips:

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1. Decide what information you want to include in your speech and poster
a. DO NOT simply print everything youve done and glue it to a piece of construction paper.
b. Select the pieces that you found helpful when selecting your career. You may include:
i. Brief paragraph to explain how you chose this career path
ii. Basic facts about the job that you found throughout your research, like what that
person does or how much money they make
iii. The career hierarchy to show how to become what you want to be
iv. Important information you learned about the field from your interview
v. Pictures to show the audience what people with that job do
2. Organize your information
a. Find a format that best SHOWS your progress throughout this project
i. Try a flow chart or four square chart for example
ii. Use graphics to designate each section of your poster
b. Use titles and captions to guide the reader through your poster
3. Create the poster
a. Ask Ms. Burnett or Mr. Garrido for poster board (or go to Big Lots!)
b. Take your time and make it neat
c. Give it a catchy title that clearly relates to your career field
d. The audience MUST BE ABLE TO READ IT FROM ACROSS THE ROOM
i. This doesnt mean to print all documents in 34 point font, but make sure that your
viewing audience will understand what you do include.
FAQs:
1. What if Im missing assignments or havent learned anything?
You did learn something. Go back and present what you have found out.
If you didnt do the assignments, do them now. You still have time to learn and, even though you will not
receive credit for your work, you will succeed at your speech.
2. Will this help my grade?
That dependsif you dont do it, your grade only goes down. If you do well, your grade only goes up. If
you do a half-effort job, there you go
3. Can I choose the Advisory class I speak to?
No, Ms. Burnett assigns them based on your career choice. This way one group of students wont listen to
four presentations about Law Enforcement.
4. What if I dont have supplies?
Ask Mr. Niblett or Ms. Burnett to print. Ask Ms. Burnett or Mr. Garrido for supplies.
5. Who will grade my poster and presentation?
Ms. Burnett will evaluate your poster.
The teacher and two students in the advisory class will evaluate your presentation.
Presenters Name: __________________________

Career of Choice: ______________________

Directions: Please circle the words that you feel best define the performance of this student. You may circle items
in more than one box. For example, the student may speak loudly (4) and say um (1) a million times.

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Nonverbal Skills
Eye Contact

Presence

Verbal Skills
Enthusiasm

Volume and Clarity

Content
Organization

Subject Matter

4
Holds attention of
entire audience with
the use of direct eye
contact; seldom looks
at notes or screen
Is relaxed, self
confident and
movements help
audience visualize

3
Consistent use of
eye contact with
audience, but still
uses notes and looks
at screen
Makes minor
mistakes but
recovers quickly,
movements help
presenter speak
clearly

2
Minimal use of eye
contact with
audience, mostly
reads from notes or
from screen
Mildly tense, has
trouble recovering
from mistakes or
uses very few
gestures or
movement

1
No eye contact with
audience, read entire
speech from notes or
screen

Demonstrates a
strong positive
feeling about the
topic during entire
speech
Uses loud, clear voice
and correct
pronunciation of
words; easy to
understand speech

Occasionally shows
a positive feelings
about the topic
during most of the
speech
Uses clear voice,
pronounces most
words correctly

Shows some interest

in the topic during
the speech but may
be negative

Shows no interest in
the topic

Uses a soft voice,

pronounces many
words incorrectly

Mumbles, uses: um,

yeah, whatever, you
know, or speaks too
softly to be heard

Information is
presented in a logical
interesting sequence
that is easy to follow.

Information is
presented in a
logical way that is
easy to follow.

Information is not in
order, which makes
it difficult to follow.

Information about
career goal is very
clear; speaker
demonstrates full
knowledge by
elaboration during
speech and answering
questions at end.

Information about
career goal is clear;
speaker
demonstrates
knowledge by giving
some details during
speech and
answering basic
questions at end.

Information about
career goal is
unclear; speaker is
uncomfortable with
the information and
can only answer
basic questions
about the subject.

Audience cannot
understand speech
because there is no
organization of the
content.
Information about
career goal is not
explained; speaker
does not elaborate
and cannot answer
any questions about
the subject.

Nervousness is
obvious and makes
no gestures during
speechrefers to
visual aid after
speech is over

Check one to assess time limit:

_____ YES! Student spoke for 3 to 4 minutes.

_____ No. Students speech was too long or too short.

Student Feedback Form

Speaker #

_______________________________________

Career Area:______________________

Directions: Please circle the score that best describes your opinion of this speakers performance.
1. Did the speaker look at the audience throughout the entire presentation?

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Not at all/Never

Sometimes

Frequently/Mostly

Consistently/Always

2. Did the speaker speak loudly and clearly (avoided saying um, yeah, uh, whatever)?
Not at all/Never
Sometimes
Frequently/Mostly
Consistently/Always
3. Was the speaker interested in his or her topic or did s/he seem bored?
Not at all/Never
Sometimes
Frequently/Mostly

Consistently/Always

4. Did the speaker stand tall and seemed to have good confidence in his/her speaking skills?
Not at all/Never
Sometimes
Frequently/Mostly
Consistently/Always
5. Overall, was the content of the speech interesting to you? Why or why not? (Please select one)
Yes, because:
No, because:

Career Search Presentation Poster Rubric

Student Name ___________________
CATEGORY

Required
Elements

The poster includes all

All required elements are All but 1 of the required
required elements as well included on the poster.
elements are included on
as additional information.
the poster.

Several required elements

were missing.

Labels

All items of importance

on the poster are clearly
labeled with titles and
labels that can be read
from at least 3 ft. away.

Titles and labels are too

small to view OR no
important items were
labeled.

Graphics Relevance

All graphics are related to All graphics are related to All graphics relate to the
the topic and make it
the topic and most make it topic.
easier to understand.
easier to understand.

Almost all items of

importance on the poster
are clearly labeled with
titles and labels that can
be read from at least 3 ft.
away.

Many items of importance

on the poster are clearly
labeled with titles and
labels that can be read
from at least 3 ft. away.

Graphics do not relate to

the topic or are missing.

Attractiveness The poster is

The poster is attractive in The poster is acceptably
exceptionally attractive in terms of design, layout
attractive though it may
terms of design, layout,
and neatness.
be a bit messy.
and neatness.

The poster is distractingly

messy or very poorly
designed. It is not
attractive.

Grammar

There are more than 4

grammatical/mechanical
mistakes on the poster.

There are no
grammatical/mechanical
mistakes on the poster.

There are 1-2

grammatical/mechanical
mistakes on the poster.

There are 3-4

grammatical/mechanical
mistakes on the poster.