Factors affecting job selection preferences among students

Job selection preferences have an important influence among current students and many factors or criteria they are looking to select their first job. The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine the factor that affecting job selection preferences among students. This research seeks to identify whether starting salary, employer reputation and working environment are vital to final year students when selecting job or career after graduates. The study has been made with 169 final year students from one campus of UiTM were identified as the sample. The data collected is analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Whereby, the demographic data are analyzed by descriptive statistic while the hypothesis are tested by using Pearson correlation analysis. The research findings showed that three factors, which are starting salary, employer reputation and working environment, has significant relationship with job selection preferences. It’s been found that the (starting salary, employer reputation and working environment) is the important factors that affect job selection preferences among final year students to select their job after graduates.