This research determined the balance between the use of technology
and oral communication skills among college students as factors for
employability. Respondents were sophomore students who had taken
the Purposive Communication (PC) course. Questionnaire was used to
gather data. For statistical analysis, weighted mean and standard
deviation were employed. Findings revealed that students are
comfortable with technology as they see themselves in the virtual world.
They can further share informative, expository, argumentative, and
narrative texts to a moderate extent. Also to the same extent are the
problems that students commonly encounter during oral presentation.
Such include committing mistakes while presenting, feeling anxious and
nervous, experiencing mental block, panicking, and worrying over
grades and possible negative feedback. The results also showed that
students can relatively answer questions within the knowledge,
comprehension, application, and evaluation level. They believe that
oral competence is only important in their prospective career phases
to a moderate extent. The PC teachers, on the other hand, perceive
that students tend to be lacking in the areas of pronunciation,
grammar, speech flow, vocabulary, listening, comprehension, and
organizational skills. Consequently, a significant difference was found in
terms of the perceptions of teachers and students in relation to the
studied skills.