A SURVEY OF TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO PROFESSIONAL SECRETARIES IN FIRST ATLANTIC BANKS PLC AND OCEANIC BANK PLC OKPARA AVENUE, ENUGU

CHAPTER ONE

                                                         

INTRODUCTION

1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

As competition between personal assistance and personal secretaries geared up, it becomes imperative to turn attention and evaluate the professional growth of personal secretaries in government parastatals which are naturally insatiable.

For a secretary to perform her functions efficiently and effectively, she must have undergone some educational training and obtained the basic offices knowledge and skills for days are gone when any person that work in an office under the supervision  of boss is being regarded as personal secretary. A personal secretary is therefore quite different from a clerk, a typist and other workers. I time past, secretarial profession was the responsibility of commercial schools, in that period those who attended commercial schools were regarded as secretaries, but I actual sense they were typist.

However, changes came to the organization of secretaries at the advert of industrial revolution when techniques and training developed. Carr

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