Keterampilan Peribadi Pelajar Sebagai Satu Bentuk Kemahiran Komunikasi dan Kepentingannya dalam Pasaran Dunia Pekerjaan

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Students' Personal Skills as a Form of Communication Skills and Their Importance in the Job Market ABSTRACT This article discusses students' personal skills as a form of communication skills and their importance in the world of job markets. Communication skills have been identified as an element that helps graduates in improving their personality qualities. Humans communicate because they want to influence the understanding of others, attitudes and even actions of others whether they agree or not on an issue. In addition, communication is also a two-way process in which both parties must respond to a piece of information presented. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze non-verbal communication skills as well as the level of personal skills of students at UPM and UMS. Data obtained through survey methods were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using descriptive mean analysis, correlation and regression. The findings show that students' awareness of non-verbal communication skills is at a high level. Similarly, the personal skills expressed by them, are also at a high level. While regression analysis found that non-verbal communication skills contributed variance on personal skills by 36.9 per cent. With good skills, students can improve their personal skills. The concept of self-skills covers three main elements, namely communication skills, leadership skills and also group work skills. Graduates who have these three elements will make it easier for them to build a good personality and help them bring themselves into the world of the job market. Keywords: Communication skills, personal skills, the concept of skills, importance of skills, core skills.