Author(s): Sami ALHaderi, Basma Jallali
University students need to be equipped with various skills and knowledge in order to be relevant in the increasingly competitive job market, in particular among management graduate students. These fresh graduates from certain universities are cited to be lacking of certain skills and knowledge that make their employability an issue. Students are thus required to prepare them, whilst at the university, with those skills and knowledge so that they can market themselves better and ensure the image of their universities. This paper aims to present the model indicating the dimensions of ICT knowledge, practical experience, and interpersonal communication that enhances their competencies that lead to better job employability among students of management discipline. The data were obtained from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), the leading university focusing only on management discipline in Malaysia. Using the survey approach, the self-administrated survey was completed on month 201x, after a period of x months with 138 usable questionnaires being analyzed. The findings reveal that fresh graduates from UUM perceive that the dimensions of ICT knowledge, practical experience and interpersonal communication are effective dimensions to their competencies and job employability, however, the graduate competencies variable cannot be proven to be a mediator to the relationship between these dimensions and job employability, as competencies cannot be proven to significantly effecting job employability. These findings show that the theories that propose positive relationship between graduate competencies and job employability can be challenged within the context of this study. The other factors not being measured could be the critical factor to become the mediating factor leading toward job employability.