The Job Interview Dont Let Your Voice Betray You

The Job Interview Don't Let Your Voice Betray You 279 Your tone of voice is telling your job interviewer more than you think. This is a guest post by Dr. Michael Britt. Photo Credit: Tess Watson You’re about to go for a job interview. So let me guess, you:eval Spiff up the resume Buy a good suit/dress Rehearse your answer to “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” Recall what your mother told you: “Sit up straight”, and what your father told you: “Give ‘em a strong handshake.” Ok, not bad. All this should help you present a good impression. But have you thought about what your voice says about you? Did you do anything to prepare your voice before your last job interview? Yes No View Results Free bonus: The One Job Interview Resource You’ll Ever Need is a handy reference to help you prepare for any kind of job interview. Download it free noweval Listen to what your voice is saying Interviewers pay attention to body language (eye contact, smiling, etc.). Sometimes I wonder if job seekers realize this because I’ve interviewed more than one person who wore a drab “this is my interview suit” suit and sat back in the chair like it was getting late for his afternoon nap and when was this going to be over? So when you rehearse things over in your head or when you talk through your answers in the car, consider what psychologists are discovering about what your voice says about you: 1) The pitch of your voice There’s not much you can do about how high or low your voice is, but you might as well know that for men, lower voices are seen as more authoritative (wouldn’t we all like to sound like James Earl Jones after all?) and people with voices like this are seen as more appropriate for managerial jobs. For women, interestingly, a low voice or a very high voice is rated poorly. Low voice = not feminine, high voice = not mature. Geez! Ya can’t win! 2) The rhythm of your voice Has your voice changed? Don’t speak in a monotone voice. Remember how your college professor put you to sleep with a boring lecture? Put some life into your voice during an interview. Who wants to have a boring co-worker? Show a little personality through your voice. 3) How fast you speak Although you don’t want to come across as a fast-talking, Slick Willie-type salesperson, don’t talk slowly. A good pace is essential for a good impression. don’t talk slowly. A good pace is essential for a good impressionClick To Tweet 4) Don’t pause too often While it’s good â€" especially if you’re stuck for an answer â€" to pause and say “that’s a good question”, long or frequent pauses don’t send a good impression. Your preparation regarding those annoying questions is important. 5) Consider how loudly you speak I’m talking about watching out for sudden changes in how loudly you sound. Too much unexpected or surprising change in how loud you are can lead to a sense that you just aren’t stable and maybe not right for that job that requires a lot of responsibility. Conclusion Pay attention to what your voice is doing. The voice characteristics above were studied with interviews for managerial jobs in mind. If you’re going for that great acting job then you might violate all of the guidelines above. Other creative types might also violate these guidelines. In either case, take a look at your voice language as well as your body language. And remember to sit up straight and give ‘em a good handshake too. Question of the article Do you do anything special to prepare your voice for job interviews? Tell us in the comments. Free Bonus If you want a handy job interview resource that you can keep on your smartphone or print out for easy reference, I’ve got a special bonus for you. This free download contains: 165 positive personality adjectives to describe yourself 444 of the most popular job interviewer questions to prepare yourself with 175 questions that you can ask in job interviews to make a good impression and learn about your future employer Click the image below to get access to The One Job Interview Resource You’ll Ever Need: JobMob Insiders can get this free bonus and other exclusive content in the JobMob Insider Bonuses area. Join now, it's free! Super bonus Celebrity voice coach Roger Love explains how to improve your (interview) tone of voice More reading 5 Ways to Improve Your Vocal Delivery in Interviews Phone Interviews: How To Put Your Best Voice Forward How to strike the right vocal chords in a job interview Your voice may be your biggest asset at your next job interview Trainer's tip: Preparing your voice before speaking About the author Michael Britt, Ph.D., is the host of The Psych Files podcast and blog. The Psych Files is for anyone interested in what makes us “tick”. Each week he shows how ideas from psychology can be seen in everyday life. Michael taught psychology at Marist College and is currently an eLearning specialist for Pearson Education. You can subscribe to The Psych Files through iTunes. This article was part of the 2008 JobMob Guest Blogging Contest. Is your message getting across?

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Personal Branding Interview Greg Verdino - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, and more. What is micromarketing and why is it important now? Let me answer that the other way around. I’ve been keeping an eye on three key changes going on around us. First, mass culture has splintered into millions of highly niche microcultures. In other words, we’re all into our own thing. Second, thanks to the social revolution, mass media is losing ground to micromedia. Everyone has the means of content creation, the web gives us all a viable means of distribution, and today everyone is a media outlet. Third, the average unit size of a piece of content has shrunk. Call it the Twitter effect â€" we used to read the newspaper article, next we got the highlights from a blog post, now we get the bare essence in a 140-character tweet. But it’s not just about Twitter of course. It’s 2-minute YouTube clips, stories told in Flickr photos, status updates on Facebook, LinkedIn and (yes) even MySpace. So micromarketing is important because this is the world we do business in today. Next, what is it? It is an approach to marketing that taps directly into these trends â€" rather than the more traditional tendency to buck against them, while bemoaning the demise of the good old days of prime time television â€" in order to connect more effectively with consumers and get better results than we can now expect from traditional approaches. How do macro and micro marketing differ? I’m sure we all know what mass marketing looks like â€" grand gestures, splashy creative and big budget media buys designed to reach and appeal to the widest possible audience. The problem? This type of marketing is less likely than ever to actually appeal to anyone at all. Conversely, micromarketing emphasizes the use of small gestures (like one-on-one, person-to-person interactions), simple social media approaches and the amplification effect you get when the right people start spreading your messages and content throughout their social graphs. What do you think of the quality vs quantity debate in social media? Does having one million followers on Twitter matter? Quality, all the way. I’m not going to argue that there isn’t a certain amount of value in having a million followers or fans (assuming you can build that kind of community organically rather than with some complex array of smoke and mirrors), but isn’t “get me one million followers” the social media equivalent of “make the logo bigger”? What really matters is a brand’s ability to build deep, meaningful relationships with the people that matter most â€" either because they’re your best customers or they are your best evangelists (and those two groups aren’t always one and the same, by the way). Actually, this is one of the key arguments in microMARKETING: where mass marketers favor shallow reach of the largest possible audience, micromarketers do what it takes â€" often one human-scale interaction at a time â€" to resonate through deep, lasting and mutually beneficial relationships. What case studies can you share of people who have used micromarketing to their advantage? The book is loaded with case studies, but I’ll share two better known examples from large companies and one from a microbrand. When Ford wanted to generate excitement for the 2011 Fiesta (a year before it would be commercially available in the U.S.), rather than spend millions on paid media they loaned 100 cars to 100 social media mavens and inspired them to create and share compelling content over a 6-month period. For a relatively modest investment (and none of it spent in advertising) they generated more than 10 million earned media impressions, amassed a list of nearly 100,000 people interested in test drives and generated a staggering 60% level of brand awareness for what is ostensibly a new vehicle. Similarly, Tourism Queensland’s Best Job in the World campaign took a budget that would have barely afforded them a single ad on a single episode of a show like American Idol, and instead created a social media competition that got tens of thousands of content creators buzzing a bout the program and generated an estimated 5 billion (yes, billion) earned media impressions. But obviously micromarketing isn’t just for big business. One of the book’s key notions is that anyone can do this. Consider sci-fi novelist J.C. Hutchins. When he couldn’t find a traditional publisher for his book he microchunked it into more than 100 podcast episodes and built an audience more than 100,000 listeners-strong. He then activated the most passionate people in that audience as a street team who helped him spread the word online and in the real world. He ended up getting a publisher for that book and now J.C. is applying the same principles to help Discovery market their program The Colony through social media. How have you built your personal brand? If I’m being totally honest, I don’t give much thought to my personal brand. I think I’ve always applied the Marty Neumeier notion that a brand isn’t what you say it is; it’s what they (meaning the people on the receiving end) say it is. That said, I have to say that I’ve always applied the kinds of principles I lay out in microMARKETING to find an audience, build my community and give them enough ammo to decide what my “brand” means to them. Content creation is vital so I blog, tweet, share photos, upload the occasional video; I wrote the book â€" because it allows me to share my ideas and express my unique points of view. Community building is essential as well â€" something I do on Facebook and Twitter, for the most part, but also in person at events â€" because it allows be to forge strong relationships with other people that might share my points of view (or if not share them, be able to challenge them intelligently and help me get smarter). - Greg Verdino is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, a full service social media agency. Greg is the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). He joined Powered through its acquisition of crayon, the strategic consultancy in which he was a principal and at which he served as chief strategist. Previously, he held leadership roles at a number of advertising, marketing, digital media and technology companies including Digitas, ROO.tv, Akamai Technologies, Arbitron and Blau Marketing Technologies. Over the course of his 20 year career he has helped clients like American Airlines, American Express, BIC, Coca-Cola, Ford, General Motors, Panasonic and many others evolve their marketing strategies to take advantage of disruptive changes in media, technology and consumer culture. Verdino writes a popular and influential marketing blog (www.gregverdino.com), is a frequent conference speaker, and has been profiled in and quoted by a wi de variety of news and business media including BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.