Interview Preparation

We now live in a digital age where texting, posting, instant messaging and emailing are the preferred communicative methodology for both social and professional contexts.  There are still certain situations in life, however, where we have to be able to sell ourselves face-to-face with our voices whether in-person or on a screen with a webcam.  Interviews are good examples of such face-to-face situations and also sources of anticipatory stress and worry for non-stutterers – which means we as stutterers (including those who may only stutter or experience dysfluency during an interview) can have that stress and worry multiplied to the umpteenth degree.

Words Are Wings® Interview Introspection and Preparation is $100 per hour and offers assistance for the following respective populations:

- High School students preparing for college admission interviews
- College students preparing for graduate school interviews or their first round of job interviews
- Professionals looking for another job
- Athletes (all college levels and professional), actors, musicians and/or politicians looking to improve their public speaking    skills during an interview

(NOTE: Words Are Wings® Interview Introspection and Preparation is not affiliated with nor endorses any political party.)

An interview is an opportunity to demonstrate why you should be chosen.  Discussing your stuttering as well as the positive attributes you have developed because you’re a stutterer (e.g., from empathy to tolerance, patience to open-mindedness and strength to leadership) can be the reason you distinctly stand out and why you should be chosen despite whatever speaking challenges you may have as a stutterer regardless of whether you stutter during the interview (remember: you’ll probably be the only

stutterer interviewed.)

Words Are Wings® Interview Introspection and Preparation offers assistance in the following areas:

- Establishing and maintaining eye contact
- Optimizing speaking rate, volume, tone of voice, and melodic inflection
- Topic maintenance (a.k.a. answering the question that was asked or remaining on a topic that was presented)
- Posture and sitting position
- Facial expressions and body language when speaking and when listening
- Stuttering-based counseling services to help transition any fear(s) about your stuttering to acceptance and tolerance, and view your stuttering as something that equips you with distinctly positive qualities and attributes
- Identifying specific points of an interview (e.g., saying your name or certain words) that may be particularly worrisome and reviewing strategies to make it through those moments
- Reviewing techniques for stutterers using a fluency shaping program (whether you’re a Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ & Fluency Flier Academy™

client or not)
- Roleplaying the interview to see how the reviewed strategies fit with each particular stutterer
- Implementing various Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ specifically for the upcoming interview

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If you are interested in Words Are Wings®

Interview Introspection and Preparation, please

contact me today using any of the following:

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Phone: 917-887-4716 (AZ MST 10:00am – 6:00pm for calls,

24/7 for texting)

Email: micelispeech@gmail.com (24/7)
Linked-In: linkedin.com/in/andrew-miceli (24/7)

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(As I answer all correspondences personally, kindly allow one to two business days for a response.)