Tuntutan Kemahiran Komunikasi Antarpribadi dalam Profesi: Perspektif Hongkong dan Indonesia
Abstract: Hong Kong is widely
acknowledged as one of the busiest financial and economic center in the world.
Hundreds of world-class companies establish their representative offices in
this former British colony. For the effectiveness of their operations, the
companies, using newspaper advertisement, actively recruits intelligent and
smart employees. Current research was designed to investigate how companies
appreciate interpersonal communication skills when hiring new employees
announced in the advertisements. Content of weekend edition of South China
Morning Post, called “Classified Post” (about 100 pages), was scrutinized. To
gain a little insight of the same phenomenon in Indonesia some editions of
“Klasika” section of daily Kompas was analyzed. It was found that awareness of
interpersonal communication skill, in general, was fairly high in the case of
Hong Kong (38.2%), but only 9.83% for Indonesia. The top two professions in
Hong Kong requiring this skill was public relations official (38.1%) and sale
persons (32%). In the case of Indonesia, it was secretary and finance
officials.
Key words: interpersonal
communication skill, ranking
Penulis: Tjipta Lesmana
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd060009
