Title: COM105 Career Communications Competencies
Course: Career Communication > Section: COM105-Career Communication

COM 105 Career Communication

Course Description:

Develops skills needed in obtaining and keeping a job. Includes job searching, applications, resumes, interviews, and the dynamics of customer, peer, and managerial relationships. Emphasizes speaking, writing, listening, critical reading skills, and vocabulary development essential to the employment world.

Credit: 3

STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

1. Demonstrate basic communication skills.
2. Identify effective verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills.
3. Use reading skills, and computational skills to complete business forms.
4. Interact positively with others developing human relation skills.
5. Apply techniques for obtaining, maintaining, advancing in, and exiting a job and be able to articulate their value to a prospective employer in meeting the employer's goals.
6. Utilize  knowledge of management information systems, decision making skills, stress management techniques, goal setting skills, problem solving skills, planning skills, customer skill, ability to use the telephone in a business-like manner.
7. Demonstrate development of leadership skills, positive self image, risk-taking skills, respect for one another, people skills, respect for property, negotiation skills, and empowerment skills.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of the ethics involved in the operation of a business such as confidentiality, respect for authority, loyalty, integrity, and honesty.  The student will demonstrate the development for procedures for a safe work environment.