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Recommended: Effective communication is important in the work setting

Twenty years ago, the typical college graduate looked forward to a 9 to 5 job with a detailed job description. The outlook to the future was to have a long history with the same employer with a pension waiting upon retirement. Today, business and industry are downsizing and reorganizing. Businesses are trying to increase productivity while decreasing costs. In today’s world, it is vital that the future workforce have good communication skills along with technical knowledge in career performance.

Regardless of the career choice, today’s organizations are looking for people in the workforce who can write, listen, persuade others, and demonstrate good interpersonal communication skills and technical knowledge. Business leaders suggest taking a basic course in communication as the first step in making perspective personnel more marketable. Skills needed for the workforce in the 21st century include techniques to communicate technical information clearly and simply to non-technical people. Communication skills are practical for easy understanding. These explanation skills are essential for the concise communication of the workforce’s areas of expertise, which is practical for understanding, and valued as a needed ability by industry to willingly contribute information to other team members. Employees are looking for people who display the right attitude, along with these technical skills and who exercise these skills with effectiveness.

Most professional and technical academic programs include some requirements for the practice of basic foundation skills. Effective interpersonal, organizational, professional, and learning skills will significantly impact the ability for a success move within and between careers. Masterin...

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...lty and profits and bolsters business stability for years to come.

Works Cited

Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009 edition.” Writing and

reading across the curriculum. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Eleventh Edition. Longman, 2011. 248-250. Print.

Ritchel. “Medicine.” Writing and reading across the curriculum. Laurence Behrens and Leonard

J. Rosen. Eleventh Edition. Longman, 2011. 271-274. Print.

Jill Casner-Lotto and Linda Barrington. “Are they really ready to work?” Writing and reading

across the curriculum. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Eleventh Edition. Longman, 2011. 250-260. Print.

Ursula Huws. “Fixed and footloose: work and identity in the twenty-first century.” Writing and

reading across the curriculum. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Eleventh Edition. Longman, 2011. 214-220. Print.

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