ENGL312- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Communication skills: your ticket to success: workplace surveys and studies confirm that recruiters rank communication skills at top of list of qualities they most desire in job seekers. Superior communication skills will give you an edge over other job applicants: why writing skills matter more than ever. Workers communicate more since info tech and internet have transformed world of work in last 2 decades. Tech enables us to transmit messages faster, father, to potentially larger audiences, and more easily than in past. People who can"t write and communicate clearly will not be hired. Writing is a marker of high-skill, high-wage, professional work. Many job listings explicitly ask for excellent oral and written comm skills. Employers consistently state that comm skills are critical to effective job placement, performance, career advancement, and organization success. Verbal, written, and interpersonal skills are more important today than they were in the past (in reference to technical field)
