JobHunting Tool Kit Essentials: Lesson 7 - |How to Use Your Cheeseburger Voice!!

Building Up Your Cheeseburger Voice

for your job hunt

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Click here >>>   Building YOUR Cheeseburger Voice!!!

Using Your Cheeseburger Voice:

One of the great questions you need to answer before hunting is how to talk with a prospective employer while making a first impression. 

Your tone of voice needs to portray assertiveness and self-assurance.  Your voice should not sound pushy or boastful; be polite and respectful, but not too soft-spoken.  In short, be blended like a fine wine (not a whine).  

HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GET IT RIGHT?

First of all, do not buy expensive job hunting books or hire speech coaches hoping that you hit just the right sound when talking to the employer.   It’s already inside of you.

Folks, you have that voice inside of you and here's how to use it:  Quick!  Raise your hand if you have ever ordered a cheeseburger (or soy burger for our vegetarian friends).   THERE!  THAT is the tone of voice you need!!   That commanding yet friendly tone is what you are hungering for.   Relax and picture yourself ready to order and say out loud “I want a cheeseburger.”  WOW! Say it again, slowly: “I want a cheeeeseburrrger.” 

Hey, you really mean it!  You said it straight up, plain and seriously.  Sounds like you aren't leaving this place without that cheeseburger.  Hey, you are not making excuses or apologies for what it is you want to say.  You are not bragging or angry, just direct.

You want to get the right tone in talking with the employer?  Use your cheeseburger voice from saying hello to getting through the interview:

•        it's sensitive without being whiney

•        it gets your point across easily

•        it doesn't frighten or put-off employers

•         it’s a well-known and accepted tone and it gets the burger every time.

The cheeseburger voice helps you in other areas (like “getting past the bull dog”, “ending with a period” and “don't think like a job hunter”).  For now, practice it & enjoy it. With relish.

Making It Work:

Practice this tone of voice. Try saying other things you will be saying with that tone, like “I want to see the employer” or “I have the experience you are looking for.”  Make a list of 15 statements you will want to say to the employer and other statements you want to make to friends/teachers/coaches then practice them with that cheeseburger voice of yours.

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Practice your cheeseburger voice with friends, a stuffed animal, anywhere you can hear the sound of your own voice.  More on this later.