Job Opportunities For Graduate Secretaries In This New Millennium
(A Case Study Of Enugu Metropolis)
This study has its main of identifying the extent of job opportunities available to graduate secretaries within Enugu Metropolis and to see whether there are problems militating against them.
The need for the study stems form people’s wrong notion that secretarial studies is synonymous with typewriting and shorthand and therefore secretaries are mere typists and stenographers and because f this level of training they cannot hold managerial and administrative positions.
Office automation has also brought it own problems while some areas are yet to be appropriate due to lack of training. The researcher’s study is to obtain the true position of things.
Related literatures were reviewed and opinions of others in this respect were obtained. Working class, applicant graduate secreted from five organizations formed the population.
The total number of 200 was trimmed down to a sample size of 133 using the simple random sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used for the collection of data and analysis was done using tables and simple percentage method.
The findings show that secretaries study other management and Administrative courses, apart form the professional courses. Many tertiary institutions offering secretarial studies do not have sophisticated secretary – job related machines for their training.
Job opportunities exist for secretaries in set-up, oil companies and international organizations. However, in the areas of legal, medical, technical and linguistic secretary ship, employment opportunities are yet to be exploited by secretaries due to lack of training.
Based on the findings, the researcher recommended a broadening of the course curriculum, equipment of tertiary institutions with modern office machines.
Finally, the researcher concluded that secretary ship us lucrative course and sky is the limit of the secretary who knows.
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Title page i
Approval page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract v
List of table vii
Table of content ix
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction 1
1.1 Background of the study 1
1.2 Statement of the problem 5
1.3 Purpose f the study 7
1.4 Delimitation of the study 8
1.5 Significance of the study 9
1.6 Research question 10
1.7 Definition of terms 11
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Review of related literature 13
2.2 The graduate secretary 14
2.3 Categories of secretaries 16
2.4 Responsibilities of the graduate secretary 20
2.5 Academic qualifications required for one to train as asecretary in nigeria universities polytechnics 24
2.6 Course studied by graduate secretaries 27
2.7 Job opportunities for graduate secretaries 28
2.8 Sources of employment information 32
2.9 Office automation and graduate secretaries 34
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Research methodology 36
3.2 Research methodology/design 36
3.3 Are/location of study 37
3.4 Population of the study 37
3.5 Sample size 38
3.6 Sources of data 40
3.7 Research instrument used 40
3.8 Method of data analysis 41
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Data Presentation And Analysis 42
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Discussion of findings, summary, and recommendations 65
5.2 Summary of findings 72
5.3 Conclusion 74
5.4 Recommendations 75
Appendix 78
Questionnaire 79
Reference 85
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