On having accent free communication skill

[Saurabh Katiyar]

This came out of my experience. Few Years Back, I lost a potential precious  job opportunity  , struggling giving interview over the phone at a airport lounge.

 

Here is a Piece of Advice here for prospective fresheres/experienced candidates sitting for their next change.. The beneath news reminded when in the few preliminary telephonic interview was the ring tone and the phone handling skills were the determining factors for shortlisting the candidates.. Someone serious in career pursuit should disable the caller tune and ensure that phone handling skills are in place.  Especially to lift before the third ring and introduce . Or if not able to take call. SMS back immediately for the next time slot..

Then the best impact would be accent free communication skill . Still remember when the candidate last year who was an expert in Mobile Computing Architecture confessed immediately that preferred language is Hindi .Though can understand English well. His Austosh Rana like "klisht" Hindi was what made him win the job.  Fake CV with self praise and doctored by the Job portals will do more damage.

 

Yes the beneath would reinforce your communication skills. Just record your voice and listen for Auto Feedback correction

With best wishes always,

 

Saurabh Katiyar 

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. -- Alistair Cooke

 

How you talk is how unknown people judge you!

Press Trust Of India

London: Move over, first appearances. It's actually how you talk which most influences how unknown people judge you, says a new study.

Experts always thought visual clues took over when we categorised unknown people. Not any more.

 

Now, a team at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany has found accents and language provide information about temperament, age, state of mind and ethnic background, the 'Daily Express' reported.

 

In the study, participants were shown photographs of German and Italian-looking people, together with written statements from them. The subjects subsequently had to assign statements to those they thought had made them.

 

As with earlier findings, mix-ups were common within the groups, but not across them. So statements by German-looking people were not wrongly assigned to Italian-looking subjects or vice versa.

 

But when accents were added, some German-looking people spoke with standard German accents and others with an Italian accent. A similar thing happened with Italian-looking people, the findings revealed.

 

Looks, which came into the equation in the first experiment -- with no other information provided -- were no longer relevant.

 

Lead researcher Dr Tamara Rakic said this proved the huge importance of language in ethnic categorisation. It also accorded with the assumption that accent-free language plays a critical role in social integration.

Dr Rakic said: "The accent is much more important than the way a person looks. Results indicated the participants orientated themselves nearly exclusively on the spoken accent while categorising people."