POWERPOINT COMPETENCIES NEEDED BY FINAL YEAR OTM STUDENT FOR MODERN JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN KANO STATE

Abstract Adaptation to the emerging methodologies in modern Job opportunities demands that OTM Final year Students should adequately possess relevant technological competencies for modern job opportunities. This study determined the extent HND OTM final year students in Kano State Nigeria require different Power Point Application competencies for efficient adaptation to the emerging methodologies. Descriptive approach was used to analyze the data. The decision to agree or disagree on nay mean item was done based on the cutoff as follows: 4+3+2+1=10/4 = 2.50. Therefore any mean from 2.50 and above is regarded as agree. While below 2.5 is considered disagree. The population size also used as sample was 136 final year OTM Students in both in both part time and full time programme because the number is manageable. Therefore, no sampling technique adopted. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and determine the homogeneity or otherwise of the respondents while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings show that OTM Final Year students required PowerPoint competencies for modern Job opportunity to be efficient in the emerging methodologies. Gender and experience did not significantly influence the respondents’ ratings. It was concluded that adequate possession of PowerPoint presentation competencies by OTM Final Year students will make for greater efficiency and effectiveness in their performance. Based on the findings and conclusion of the study it was recommended among others that OTM Final students and prospective ones should seek out training opportunities to adequately acquire these competencies while NBTE should continue to emphasize the technological competencies in the OTM curriculum (195 words)