Keterampilan Komunikasi Yang Dibutuhkan Pasar Kerja Bidang Akuntansi: Studi Iklan Lowongan Kerja

Communication skills are one of the key factor to the success of graduates in entering the world of work. Preparation curricular program to develop the communication skills of students must depart from the analysis of labor market needs. This study intends to identify the attributes of the communication skills required by the labor market accounting. The study was conducted by analyzing the content of job advertisements, especially related to the attributes of the communication skills to be a requirement in job advertisements. The main sources of research data are job advertisements that are posted on on-line media or on-line job advertisements within March 2018 June 2018. The number of job advertisements analyzed during the study period reached 200 ads. There are 148 words, a combination of words or phrases of communication skills that have been identified, with the number of occurrence frequencies reaching 286 times. Verbal and written communication skills, emotion self-control, interpersonal skills, providing performance feedback, initiating open discussions, providing motivation, convincing presentations, and being a change catalyst are keywords communication skills that appear more than ten times. Most of these attributes are included in the group of interpersonal communication skills.