Application Of Shorthand Skill In Today’s Business Offices

ABSTRACT For the effective discharge of their duties, professional  secretaries must have a mastery of the basic office skills. These skills include Shorthand, typewriting etc. of all these skills, shorthand happens to the most important and most challenging of all.          But in secretarial departments of most tertiary institutions, most students believed that secretaries no longer write shorthand in business offices with the invention and installation of such machines e t c. This nation has contributed to their poor performance in the course since their interest is restricted to passing th…