The Influence of Employability Skills toward Career Adaptability

Abstract

Career adaptability is becoming increasingly critical in the rapidly changing business world as it assures organizations to sustain their competitiveness. Career adaptability is described as an individual's willingness and ability to cope and adapt to work environment changes. Employability skills have become one of the factors that affect career adaptability as soft skills will contribute to the growth and success of an organization. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between communication skills, problem-solving skills, and teamwork skills towards career adaptability and to identify the most influential factors toward career adaptability in a Malaysian public university. This research is quantitative research which used a self-administered questionnaire as the instrument to collect data. A total of 136 respondents from two faculties responded to a set of electronic questionnaires. The data collected were then evaluated using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Version 23. The Pearson Correlation analysis revealed that there were positive significant relationships between problem solving and teamwork toward career adaptability. While communication skills revealed no significant relationship toward career adaptability. Regression analysis showed that problem-solving skills have become the most influential factor toward career adaptability.