Al-Hikmah University Journal

T-his study was carried out to examine the acquisition of office technology and management skills: current issues and challenges. Also, to ascertain the extent basic skills in secondary education affect acquisition of OTM skills, determine the critical issues in the learning of OTM and identify the measure that can ameliorate these challenges. Descriptive Research design was adopted in this study. Eighty (80) respondents were involved in the research which consists of those who are in the field of office technology and management. Self-developed questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. All data collected from the respondents were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts with mean and standard deviation. The finding revealed that there are lots of issues and challenges hindered the acquisition of OTM skill acquisition. It was also revealed that there were measures that can be put in place to Improve OTM skill acquisition. It was concluded that if issues and challenges that confronting OTM acquisition it resolved, there would be improvement in the acquisition of OTM. It was recommended that practical keyboarding must be made available for students in secondary schools. Professional career counselors must be made available for students in secondary schools. Classroom and laboratories for OTM must be adequate and adequate supervision of students practical must be done.