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Why English is important in Job Requirement?
A study conducted by one of the biggest agencies, Job.com, founded that lack of communication skills in both speaking and writing has caused the main reasons for the failure of graduates in seeking jobs.
An English lecturer of University Utara Malaysia’s school of cognitive science and education, M.Puveneswary who taught English at the University for about 11 years said, there was a gap between English at the workplace and academic environments. In her PhD thesis entitled “A Comparative Study Of The Criteria Employed By Academic And Workplace Professionals In Evaluating Business Correspondence“, Puveneswary finding showed that ESL teachers were very concerned about gauging how students had learnt on the subjects taught, where as employers seem to focus on the “big picture” using English proficiency as a “move and “strategy aimed at achieving their business goals that involve consumers and clients. Based on those two scenarios Why English is Important in Jobs Requirement? There are over 300 000 graduates in the country without jobs, and the numbers looks set to rise as there are over 100, 000 graduates who will be entering the jobs market this year. Salina Jaafar, a graduate of University Malaya, one of the country’s top universities, is one of the unemployed graduates. Studying the Information Technology and graduates a year ago but still can’t land a job was a painful realization for her that the day when a scroll was a passport to employment may be over.
“I’ve gone for more interviews than I can remember, but in each case, I was turned down either because I didn’t have the specific skills they were looking for or because I didn’t have any experience.” She says “The four years I spent in university studying IT has come to nothing” she laments. She is the only one complaining. It was an unbelievable situation where a country that attracts a thousands of foreign workers can have such a high
A study conducted by one of the biggest agencies, Job.com, founded that lack of communication skills in both speaking and writing has caused the main reasons for the failure of graduates in seeking jobs.
An English lecturer of University Utara Malaysia’s school of cognitive science and education, M.Puveneswary who taught English at the University for about 11 years said, there was a gap between English at the workplace and academic environments. In her PhD thesis entitled “A Comparative Study Of The Criteria Employed By Academic And Workplace Professionals In Evaluating Business Correspondence“, Puveneswary finding showed that ESL teachers were very concerned about gauging how students had learnt on the subjects taught, where as employers seem to focus on the “big picture” using English proficiency as a “move and “strategy aimed at achieving their business goals that involve consumers and clients. Based on those two scenarios Why English is Important in Jobs Requirement? There are over 300 000 graduates in the country without jobs, and the numbers looks set to rise as there are over 100, 000 graduates who will be entering the jobs market this year. Salina Jaafar, a graduate of University Malaya, one of the country’s top universities, is one of the unemployed graduates. Studying the Information Technology and graduates a year ago but still can’t land a job was a painful realization for her that the day when a scroll was a passport to employment may be over.
“I’ve gone for more interviews than I can remember, but in each case, I was turned down either because I didn’t have the specific skills they were looking for or because I didn’t have any experience.” She says “The four years I spent in university studying IT has come to nothing” she laments. She is the only one complaining. It was an unbelievable situation where a country that attracts a thousands of foreign workers can have such a high