Abstract

Unemployment among fresh graduates is a worrying issue that happen in Malaysia. The continuous upward trend shows that this is a problem that need to be solved. Previous research mostly focusses on candidate attributes in linking them to unemployment. However, the uncontrollable factor for fresh graduate needs to be addressed.

This study will be carried out to find whether job creation and competition which are aspect of labor market as well as organizational technology and employer’s preference, which are aspect of organizational factor plays a role in contributing to the unemployment among fresh graduates. The sample of this study is 393 human resource executives around Klang Valley. Mean data is used as a form of data analysis in answering the hypothesis. It is hypothesized that job creation, competition, organizational technology and employer’s preference has a significant effect on unemployment among fresh graduates. SPSS is used for Reliability Test and Normality Test.

The finding of this study is crucial in lessen the blame put on fresh graduates and open many eyes especially from government and companies to make some effort in offering more job as well as revising their organizational practices. The result shows that respondents agreed that job creation, competition, technology usage and employer’s preference do influence the unemployment among fresh graduates. Implications and limitation of the study are discussed while suggestion for future research have been given as well.

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