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The purpose of this study was to determine the work skill needs of fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries in Kaduna state. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study consists of two groups, group one comprised of 87 fabrication and welding technical teachers in the 5 Technical colleges and 19 secondary schools in the state offering fabrication and welding subject. The second group comprised of 12 Industrial fabrication and welding supervisor and 84 fabrications and welding craftsmen registered with the Kaduna state Ministry of labour and productivity. There was no sampling as the population 183 respondents are not large, accessible and manageable. Four research questions and four hypotheses, tested at 0.05 level of significance, the instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by five experts, two from the Department of Vocational Teacher Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and three expert from welding and fabrication industries in Kaduna State. The reliability coefficients was found to be 0.91 by trial testing it on 10 Technical teachers and 20 fabrication and welding Industrial supervisor which was not part of the respondents used for this study. Data obtained from the administration of the instrument was analysed using mean, standard deviation to answer the research question and t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses. eight major findings were made. These findings, included. Problem solving skill required by fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries, communication skill required by fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries, self management skill required by fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries and critical thinking skill required by fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries. Also the hypotheses tested found out that: there was no significant difference in the mean responses of industrial supervisor and craftsmen on the problems solving skill required of fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries. There were no significant difference in the mean responses of industrial supervisor and craftsmen on the communication skill of fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries. There was no significant difference in the mean responses of industrial supervisor and craftsmen on self management skill needed by welding and fabrication craftsmen. And the last hypothesis also corroborate the others that there is no significance difference in the mean responses of qualified and less qualified industrial worker on the critical thinking skill needed by fabrication and welding craftsmen as perceived by related industries. Based on these findings, conclusions were drawn and recommendations proffered.
