1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background Information
The origin of Secretarial profession ca be traced to the fifteenth century in the Roman Empire where a set of professionals, according to Klem (1968) “secretaries were made to record the secret deed of the church.
Also, the word “secretary” is taken from the Latin word “secretaries” meaning “A notary scribe” scribes are professional letter writer and well known to be keeper of secrets.
Therefore, the term secretarial practice combines all the duties performed and carried out in the administrative department of an organization ad all these duties can be performed by trained secretaries.
Secretarial profession is for specialists who have undergone some special training in secretarial activities. It is a kind of profession that cannot be aduttered by some way-ward professionals and academician. It requires sound knowledge of shorthand writing, typing, knowledge of Reception and Telephoning activities, recording minutes of meetings, knowledge filling and indexing, Employer's correspondence and knowledge of Accounting.
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