Presentation Skills for Recruitment Professionals 

(with Maureen McCowen)

COURSE CONTENT

Being good at what you do doesn’t always make it easy to present your ideas clearly and confidently.

This practical, interactive programme will help recruitment professionals plan, structure and deliver presentations that are clear, engaging and audience focused.

Participants will learn how to:

• – Structure a presentation around their audience and objective.

• – Create a clear, concise message.

• – Deliver with greater confidence and credibility.

• – Use slides effectively and engage their audience.

• – Manage nerves and handle questions with confidence.

**With a maximum of eight participants, there will be plenty of opportunity to practise. Each participant will deliver two short presentations and receive individual feedback.

DETAILS:

DATES:             20th and 27th October 

TIME:                9.30am – 12.30pm

FORMAT:          Online Training

COST:               €75 per person

This course is subsidised by ERF Skillnet – Early booking is advisable as there are only 8 places available.

About the trainer:

Maureen McCowen, Founder, Soft Skill Success

Subject matter experts know their stuff inside out. Getting it across is a different skill entirely.

In the room, it looks like too much detail, jargon that loses people, or the point that actually mattered getting buried under everything else.
You can see it happen- the moment attention slips, and the thing that needed to land, doesn’t.

Usually, nobody’s ever shown them what the audience actually needs. What to leave out, what to lead with and how to say it in plain English. Once they see it, they do themselves justice whether it’s the board, a client, or their own team they’re speaking to.

Maureen has won the Kildare Chamber Business Awards’ Best Sole Entrepreneur in 2025, and the 2024 Speaker Factor competition for Ireland, then represented the country at the Professional Speaking Association’s UK & Ireland final. She’s worked with teams at HPE, EirGrid, Bord Bia, Sky, Fortinet and HSE, and trained clients across five continents.

Working through her ACE framework – Audience, Content, Engagement – is a structured way of getting someone from “I know this” to “they’ve got this.”

One client put it simply: practical, no-nonsense, and it gets results.

That might mean one-to-one coaching, team training, the Communicate with Confidence programme, or a keynote.

If you know you’ve got more to say than you’re currently getting across, or you lead people whose expertise deserves to land the way it should, get in touch. she’ll talk you through what’s possible.

maureen@softskillsuccess.ie