The Deputy Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Rose Entsua Mensah, has called on secretaries to exhibit professionalism and constantly update their skills to meet the demands of their work.
Dr Entsua-Mensah who was speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Sight and Sound Secretarial School in Accra said, the work of a secretary had developed from the traditional duty of typing letters, maintaining files and documents, into a new task of preparing meeting documents, maintaining websites, making travel arrangements, among others.
She said the secretarial job had become more advanced, and that it was imperative for them to demonstrate efficiency, honesty, integrity and reliability in their field of endeavour.
Sight and Sound Secretarial school was established 32 years ago with the sole aim of training professional secretaries for the job market.
Dr Entsua-Mensah advised the graduates to be productive, urging them to work towards the smooth running of their offices.
The Principal of the school, Madam Julie Aryeetey, said the presence of more than one examining body for secretarial schools in the country continued to pose some challenges to institutions that run such courses.
She said presently, students were required to either take NVTI exams, COTVET exams or government secretarial exams.
Madam Aryeetey said the creation of one examining body for secretarial schools in the country would go a long way in addressing the problems faced by the schools.
She said Sight and Sound was established to provide training in typewriting for interested persons but current trends had compelled the school to provide a full range of professional training for potential secretaries.
She added that the school was currently running courses such as, office procedures, French, computing, economics, accounting, shorthand and typewriting.
Madam Aryeetey said the courses were designed to give students easy access to higher institutions.
In all, 53 successful graduate students were awarded with certificates of honour with Veronica Doe Nyarku emerging as the overall best student.
She advised the graduates to make a positive impact anywhere they found themselves.
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