Career Readiness of Office and Management Technology Graduating Students in Universities in Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated career readiness of office management and technology graduating students in universities in Rivers State. Two specific objectives, research questions and null hypotheses respectively guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised 82 office management and technology graduating students in universities in Rivers State. The purposive sampling technique was employed to draw the entire population of the study as sample size. The instrument for data collection was a self-made questionnaire titled “Career Readiness of Office Management and Technology Graduating Students Questionnaire (CROMTSQ)”. The instrument was designed on a four point rating scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated and the reliability index of 0.82 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Mean and standard deviations were used in answering the research questions while the hypotheses were tested with z-test at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings of Rivers State University and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education students on office and managerial skills possessed by office management and technology graduating students for career readiness. The study concluded that office management and technology graduating students require office and managerial skills for career readiness. It was recommended among others that government should improve on provision of modern facilities for teaching of office skills in the universities; universities should strengthen their partnership with industry for work based training of their students in possessing managerial skills; regular retraining should be organize for office management and technology lecturers on how best to impart skills on students.