Innovative Skills and Decent Employment and Prospects of Business Education Postgraduate Students in Rivers State

The study investigated innovative skills and decent employment and prospects of Business Education postgraduate Students in Rivers State. Three objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. This study adopted a correlational research design and the area of the study is Rivers State. The population of this study consist of 164 Business Education postgraduate students. The total population was used for the study since it is manageable. The instrument that was used for this study is a self-structured questionnaire developed by the researchers and tagged innovative skills (INOSQ)” and “Decent Employment Prospects of Business Education Postgraduate Students” (DEPQ) the questionnaire. The instruments was validated by three experts: Two from Business Education and one from Measurement and Evaluation. In order to establish the reliability of the instruments that was used for the study, test re-test method was employed, scores obtained the scores obtained were correlated using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient ® formula, and it yielded a reliability coefficients of 0.74 and 0.82 which revealed that the instruments are fit to measure what they are purported to measure in the study. The data collected for the study was analyzed by the researchers using the SPSS. Findings of the study revealed that there is relationship between creativity skill, adaptability and digital skill, and decent employment prospects of Business Education postgraduate students in Rivers State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that universities should provide students with practical learning activities such as problem-solving tasks, innovation projects, case studies, entrepreneurship activities, and project-based learning to encourage creativity and the generation of new ideas and students should be exposed to changing workplace situations through internships, industrial training, seminars, simulations, and collaborative projects.