RELEVANCE OF LANGUAGE IN EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

Abstract

Employers look for an employee equipped with skills required to do justice to a job position. Each job of an organization requires a unique set of employability skills. For example, a manager should possess good inter-personal and intra-personal skills to get his work done by his/her sub-ordinates, but an attender should always be alert to the directions given by the boss. Thus, some jobs need physical skills (hard skills), some need intelligence (smart skills), some need interactive skills (soft skills), and others need the combination of two or three of these hard, smart and soft skills. All these three skills commonly share the medium of a language in execution, to integrate their piece of work with other fragments done by others. Each employee may be doing his /her work in isolation, but every work of an organization is linked and to be coordinated with every other work of that organization. This integration of work can be done well with continuous communication. There comes in language aiding the process of communication. Language has various features like colloquialism, slang, connotation, implication, standard vocabulary, strong structures etc. Thus, my paper focuses on the some relevant features of language in demonstrating proper employability skills.