Digital employability skills required by office managers in the electronic office

Abstract

The office of today has gone digital unconsciously by the application of digital equipment being used in our offices presently. Today's offices are surrounded by digital office equipment like computers, scanners, photocopiers, laminating machines etc. These make the office electronic and require skills to operate them for maximum productivity. Employers of labour are presently on the lookout for future office managers who possess digital employability skills for optimum productivity in business organizations. This paper tends to identify digital employability skills required from Office Managers for optimum productivity in business organizations. Digital employability skills required by future secretaries for optimum productivity include: electronic record management, operations of digital office equipment, keyboarding skills, MS words skills etc. The paper recommends that training institutions should be adequately funded to enable them to install modern ICT equipment for effective training and proper acquisition of manipulative skills of ICT equipment, short training programmes should be organized for office managers at intervals to enable them to keep abreast of new technologies in the office among others.