The relationship between communication education and communication skill and their impact on creating job opportunities in the hospitality industry in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
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https://doi.org/10.25212/lfu.qzj.9.3.51Keywords:
Graduate students, Linguistic knowledge, Communication skills, Hospitality competency, Hospitality MarketsAbstract
This research’s main objective is to study the relationship between Communication Education and communication skills to pave good opportunity for graduate students to enter the hospitality market in Erbil. Often, a deficiency in communication skills hinders them from building an appropriate opportunity to face market requirement and this is a huge problem that this research focusing on.
Which, in turn, affects their readiness to enter the hospitality market. This is due to the hypothesis that there is no relationship between Communication Education and communication skills sparked a discussion around how to enter the hospitality market where this study concludes the importance of such a relationship to equip students for market opportunities. The researcher collected data from 90 fresh graduate students at colleges as a research population and aluminous reveal a correlation between students' linguistic proficiency and the barriers they face in accessing the hospitality market. The researcher used, correlation analysis and regression analysis to analyses the data by using SPSS software. Also, the result shows that Communication Education and Communication Skills in Practice have indicating a positive and significant relationship between them. The second objectives result revels that there is no significant relationship between Communication Education and Interpersonal Communication Skills
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