Industrial Installation Skills Acquired and Job Performance of Graduates of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Works Trade of Technical Colleges in North Eastern Nigeria

This study was conducted to determine level of skills acquired and job performance of graduates of electrical installation and maintenance work (EIM) trade of technical colleges in industrial installation in north eastern Nigeria with a view of finding information that will help solve low level of skill acquisition and job performance of the graduates in order to sustain the graduates' human and job security for national development.The study was guided by two research questions and one hypothesis.Descriptive survey research design based on core self-evaluation was used for the study.The population for the study consisted of 313 graduate of electrical installation and maintenance work trade and 82 work place supervisors in 33 public establishment in north eastern Nigeria.The entire population was used for the study.Two sets of structured questionnaires were used for data collection.Each of the questionnaires has 32 items in four task cluster within two major sections.The instrument was validated by three electrical technology lecturers form ModibboAdama University of Technology, Yola and three EIM teachers and workshop based supervisor each from government science and technical college and federal ministry of works and jos respectively.The entire validated instrument was tested for internal consistence using the cronbach Alpha method which yielded reliability coefficient of 0.85.The data for the study were analyzed using the mean, mean of means and z-test statistical methods using the SPSS 17.0 for windows.Findings of the study include among others that the graduate of electrical installation and maintenance works trade of technical colleges in north eastern Nigeria moderately acquired skills in installation of MICC cables and slightly acquired skills in installation of ducks and trunking task clusters respectively of the industrial installation module.While the graduate exhibited moderate level of job performance in installation of MICC cables and low job performance in installation of ducks and trunking tasks clusters, there was no significance difference in the mean response of graduate and supervisor on level of job performance of graduate in industrial installation module as a whole.It was recommended among others that government should provide adequate training facilities at the technical colleges especially on the task clusters that the graduates were deficient in.On the job remedial training should be provided by employers to remedy the very low skills acquired by graduates of EIM in some task clusters in industrial installation