Factors Affecting Graduates’ Employability Skills: Quantitative Study on Employees in Brunei

This research attempts to examine the factors that affect graduates’ employability skills. The researcher has identified five factors that have impact on graduates’ employability in this research, which are ‘Career Development Learning’, ‘Experience’, ‘Degree Subject Knowledge, Skills & Understanding’, ‘Generic Skills’ and ‘Emotional Intelligence’. This research has adopted a quantitative method and used probability sampling as the data collection method. The targeted population of this research is employees in Brunei Darussalam, who has at least 1 year of working experience. A total of 153 respondents have participated in the research through a questionnaire that has been distributed online. After all data has been collected, the data is computed and analysed through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 28.0. The research has found that all of the independent variables have a significant relationship with graduates’ employability through the outcome of the Pearson’s correlation analysis. The hypotheses formed in this research were also tested. The research was concluded with academic and managerial implications, limitations and recommendations for future research to further explore and improve the quality of this study.