Perceived employability among undergraduate students at Faculty of Business And Management, Universiti Teknologi Mara [UiTM] Perlis Branch / Nurul Jasmin Sofhia Jamaludin

Unemployment is a rising issue in Malaysia especially for the youth or in the other terms the fresh graduates. It is important for the undergraduate students to acquire several qualities in themselves in order to obtain a job. Therefore, the study of perceived employability is conducted in order to see the relationship of several factors which are self- efficacy, career adaptability, university reputation, labour market and also gender, that may affect the employability among business undergraduate students of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Perlis branch..In this study, the researcher used convenience sampling in order to get the result among the respondents. 196 questionnaire have been distributed through hard copy for the students of semester of September 2019 and also have been distributed through Google Form platform for the students of the previous semsters. However, only 104 have returned and answered the questionnaire. The result showed that only university reputation have a significant relationship with the perceived employability while the other three factors which are the self- efficacy, career adaptability and also labour market have been rejected. Meanwhile, the gender did not have a significant difference with the perceived employability. The university should create a longer period of hours for practical training and also encourage more abroad industry to build a link with the university in order to enhance the perceived employability of the students. This study in the future can also focused on the different programmes and different university as well as the post graduate students in order to obtain a clear result on this topic.