World of Radio Jockey

If you like jabbering non-stop, walk around with earphones plugged to your ears unendingly and like to drop yourself in the world of music, you must go for jockeying.

Many a time listening to your favorite songs on FM or walking into your most loved nightspot shaking a leg you must have wondered on how the jockeys really make you dance to their tunes!

Jockeying generally involves three areas – Video Jockey (VJ), Disc Jockey (DJ) and Radio Jockey (RJ). All three deal with music. What differentiates them is the place or media they use to reach the audience.

Radio Jockey is someone who gets paid for playing viewers favorite tunes in radio stations. What's in Radio jockey job?

A Radio Jockey guides listeners through a radio program, entertains them and gives them information. Your communication powers and language skills both are important aspect for any Radio Jockey.

How To Be?
Being RJ or VJ is a matter of style, personality and presentation skills and communication (how you exchange words with your listeners). It requires absolutely hard work and presence of mind.

Degree or diploma holders in Mass communications, Acting & Drama, Music or Media studies may land up with this career with great zeal and interest. Other than education, here are few qualities and requirements drawn from RJ expert’s views to be a good RJ or VJ.

Music
RJ or VJ is all about music. Your interest in music may bring you to this job. Thus, Intensive knowledge of music is precondition to be RJ or VJ.

Personality
RJ should be young from heart and carry vivacious personality. RJ is one who loves talking to people and believe in its own performance. RJ is original and has own style. RJ can sound normal and like anybody else. But he doesn't like to be normal. He always wanted to do it differently; the language he speaks is very normal but he treys to spice it up so that what he presents comes out differently. The foremost condition of RJ nature is hanging your shyness, embarrassment, inhibition and reserve nature in your wardrobe. Simply come out of it and make yourself open.

Voice
Modulating voice should be your style of speaking. Monotones speech in single flow without any turn will help you to lose your audience. Sound different every time. A friendly and interesting voice is a necessary attribute, but not an all-sufficient one. Research your own script and break it into interesting modules.

Humor
Humor is the lifeline of radio chatting. Jokes or mimicry helps you further. Saying something witty and very direct way to say will leave a mark on your audience. Do something that's normal and at the same time that has not been done in radio before.

Resource
Have resources enough to strike up epideictic flashes at will. Tunes in to the little things that others miss. Radio jockeying is not only garrulous and whimsical remarks. It is about delivering important news and keeps people well informed for the happenings. So always be resourceful.

Be Friendly!
The listeners should be able to relate to you. Why would they want to listen to a stranger? Try to be one among them and always be a friend so that they can relate to you. You need to listen to somebody who is a friend of us. Be like how kids talk in schools and guys talk in colleges, how friends talk when they are going out to eat or drink.

The competition is tough and it takes more than a good voice to woo the audience. There are some who believe that RJ is born and not made. General advice is to listen to a lot of radio, try to put yourself in the shoes of listeners, try and come up with innovative ideas, use oodles of wit and pack your voice with energy.

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Long hours, unstructured work environment, hard work, responding effectively under pressure and constantly keep your audience entertained. Do you have it you to manage all these things?

Love a quick work pace, opportunity to talk and interact with new people everyday, love music - what's stopping you?