Body and Voice Preparations for Your Interview

Body and Voice Preparations for Interviews.

This is the five minute warm up for your voice and your body before an interview. It should settle your mind, and warm you up so you can make an instant impression on the interviewer.

You should be in a private place. You might look a little odd doing this in the Reception area!

Word of Warning: Be gentle with yourself - don't push yourself beyond your capabilities. 

Stretching:

1. Open up your Chest and Back

• Stand with your feet hip width apart.
• Link your hands behind your back.
• Breathe in and out for a few breaths with your arms behind you.
• Then lean forwards from your hips, keeping your knees bent. 
• Rest in this position for a few breaths.
• Drops your arms and slowly roll up from this position.

2. Stretching your Sides

• Stand with your feet hip width apart.
• Stretch your left arm up to reach the sky, slightly leaning towards the right.
• Breath in and out slowly.
• Repeat on the right side.

3. Spinal Rolls

• Stand with your feet hip width a part.
• Breathe in and out, then roll your spine downwards slowly so you touch your toes. 
• Try to go one vertebra at a time.
• Let your head and arms hang down and their weight bring you down.
• Take a deep breath in, and roll upwards one vertebra at a time. 
• Repeat a couple of times.

Voice Warm Up:

1. Breathing

• Breathe in from the very bottom of your lungs - fill the whole of your lung capacity. 
• Breathe in for the count of 4 and breathe out for the count of 6.

2. Articulation Exercise - this should warm up your mouth and make your diction clearer.

• Pick a phrase - maybe "I'm going to be brilliant".
• Say it out loud 10 times.
• Now stick your tongue out - all the way out!
• Repeat your phrase 10 times with your tongue sticking out.
• Try your phrase again with your tongue in.