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CAREER
READINESS OF THE OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STUDENTS
Abstract
This study
seeks to assess the career readiness of Office Technology and Management
students in polytechnics in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu state. Career readiness
is a measure of the extent to which the OTM students possess the skills and
attitudes needed for advancing in their career path. The career readiness of
the students was measured using six indicators; office skills, managerial
skills, entrepreneurial skills, ICT skills, communication skills and
socio-psychological skills. The study employed a survey research design and
polytechnics offering OTM in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu state were selected for
the study. Seven research questions and three hypotheses guided the study, 179
HND II students offering OTM constituted the population, and no sample was taken
because of the manageable size of the population. Structured questionnaire was
used for data collection. The instrument was structured on a five point scale,
type in line with the indicators for measuring the career readiness of the OTM
students. The instrument was face validated and trial tested on 35 OTM students
from Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo and a reliability coefficient of 0.95 was
obtained. The instrument was administered to the respondents and data collected
was analysed accordingly. Mean was used to answer research question 1 to 6
while research question 7 was computed using the Arowolo & Ede (2012)
modified formula for computing readiness index. Hypothesis 1 and 2 were tested
using t-test at .05 level of significance while hypothesis 3 was tested using
ANOVA at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed a low
career readiness index of 2.43 for the OTM students in the Polytechnics in
Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu State. The indicators for measuring career readiness
showed that the students are lacking in office skills, managerial skills,
entrepreneurial skills and communication skills but rated very high in ICT
skills and socio-psychological skills. The low career readiness index has great
implication for OTM programme in south east Nigeria and it justifies the
opinion in many researches that graduates of the Nigerian higher education
institutions are not employable. The study reveals that much of what is done in
the classroom are mere theoretical rather than practical. It was therefore
recommended among others that the polytechnics should strengthen their
partnership with industry for work based training of their students and a
re-evaluation of the programme should be conducted to ascertain the possible
strategies for effective teaching and learning of office technology and
management courses.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background
of the Study
Career
choice has been the major content of vocational advocacy. However, preparedness
to take advantage of the openings in the area of career choice is more
important than the mere choice of a career. To develop a career is a lifetime
process encompassing the growth and change processes of childhood, through
formal education at school throughout a person’s working adulthood and into retirement.
Career development occurs through life and it is enhanced by lifelong learning.
The term career as defined by Herr, Cramer and Niles (2004) is a sequence of
interaction of individuals with society, education and organisations throughout
their lifespan. A career can be defined as a pattern of work experiences
comprising the entire life span of a person and which is generally seen with
regard to a number of phases or stages reflecting the transition from one stage
of life to the next (Weinert, 2001). Similarly, Collin (1998) explains that the
term career arises from the interaction of individuals with organisations and
society. This interaction, as Savickas (2009) proposes, is no longer merely
just a sequence of jobs but is now a story or an identity that working people
build about themselves.
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