In the highly developed society, communication is every moment everywhere. Effective communication skills help us to achieve success in work and gain happiness in life, which is why I think it is important.
Effective communication can bring me a good start in my career. I am in my last year in NUS, and the most important thing to me is to find a job that I dreamed of. There are three steps to achieve this. First of all, I need to send out an impressive resume and cover letter so that I can be shortlisted from thousands of candidates. Great non-verbal communication skill, more specifically, excellent writing skill, decides whether I can make my first impression to HR fresh and outstanding. In the interview followed, I need to clearly articulate my skills, key achievements in the past and how I am going to add value to the organization. If I am “lucky” enough, I may even have to go through a networking section with the CEO and managers, to convince them I am the most passionate, smart and dedicated employee they are looking for. In each of the steps above, I need effective communication skills to support me. Without that, no matter how desirable and suitable I am for the job, the employer wouldn’t know.
Effective communication skills help me to gain friendship. As a foreigner in Singapore, I want to fuse into the local environment and make friends with people around me. Effective interpersonal communication is the bridge bringing me to them. By sharing experiences, exchanging opinions, chatting and joking, I can overcome the difficulty in culture difference, and make them like me and treasure me as a friend. Besides, for my old friends in china, I keep in touch with them through phone calls. Since we don’t have much time to spend together, effective communication through phone plays a more crucial part in our friendship.
After all, effective written skills, oral and interpersonal communication skills benefit me in various ways, and make effective communication the essential component of my life.
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Effective communication skills are indeed very important to foreign students like you and me. Sometimes I also encounter difficulty in communicating with locals. I do hope both of us can learn more from this ES module.
Effective communication skills can help us overcome intercultural barriers. I hope we can get to know each other better by practicing some of these skills. :)
By the way, do you keep in touch with your friends in China via Skype or MSN too?
Sometimes I also found that I have a bit difficulty to mix to locals, so I hope by learning effective communication skills, it can help me to overcome this barrier.
Effective communication skills not only can help us to make good first impression to win in the interviews, but also can help us to create good relationships with our colleagues and managerial persons after we get the job.
Between, I seldom keep my friends in Sabah in touch using phone calls. I use MSN messenger instead because it is free and can have a few people together in a single conversation.
Hi Caroline, two very good and personal reasons given! Would have been interesting though, to share with us some anecdotes where you had difficulty communicating with the locals here in order to highlight some barriers to communication.
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