Young people typically use
filler words more, since they are «socially insecure,» he says.
Not exact matches
What's
more, another study found that highly conscientious — hardworking — people are
more likely to use
filler words in conversation.
Where do you find 30,000
more words without just adding
filler or fluff?
Their hypothesis was that anxiety will increase verbal
filler rates only if it interrupts the automatic flow of speech by making speakers self - conscious about how they sound.41 In other
words, thinking about speaking might make people «choke,» in much the same way that any conscious attention to a skilled performance can disrupt, and limit, that performance.42 Choking, in turn, would make people use
more uhs and ums.
Study subjects asked to «talk» their way through mazes used
more verbal
fillers when confronted with mazes that could be navigated using multiple routes.33 Conversely, mazes with a single path (and fewer choices) produced fewer
fillers.34 But the maze study produced another interesting result: When study subjects were told they could use only four
words to talk their way through the maze (left, right, up, down), they began to use
more verbal
fillers, even when describing simple mazes.35 Researchers posited that the «lexical suppression» created by limiting speakers to four
words triggered a stopping and starting of the speech apparatus that prevented speakers from developing a normal speech rhythm.36 Thus, while verbal
fillers are a mark of task complexity, they also appear where, «for some other reason, the flow of speech is disrupted.»
Virtually everyone uses verbal
fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand
words, with a median
filler rate of 17.3 per thousand
words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand
words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal
fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use
more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal
fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23
Do you see how much
more convincing it would be to describe the experience rather than to just list out
filler words that make you sound like you know what you're doing?
If you feel that still a resume is not effective, you can add
filler words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns to make your resume
more readable.
although phrases such as «detail - oriented», «team player», and «hard working» are generic and
more often than not just
FILLER words in a resume, it's important to note that most companies don't have the resources to individually review resumes... so they use software that scans resumes for keywords and only selects those which have a high percentage match of those specific keywords which directly affects those which fall onto the Hiring Manager's desk.
Further, minimize the use of
filler words, such as a, the, and that, they take up real estate you can use for
more valuable information.
Research shows that people who use similar function
words (also known as
filler words) are
more likely to be compatible.
Individuals completing the disclosure writing used
more negative emotion, insight, cognitive, function, and
filler words along with decrease of tentative
words.