THE EMPLOYERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE EFFECTS OF CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TOWARDS EMPLOYABILITY

Abstract

For the last five years, Malaysia has critically explored the potential of co-curricular activities to be the one of changing agent in enhancing graduate employability. In 2012, Malaysia launched the Graduate Employability (GE) Blueprint in order to increase employment opportunities. Hence, Malaysia introduced iCGPA (integrated cumulative grade point average) in 2015, which was in line with the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015 – 2025. iCGPA aims at producing holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced graduates through co-curricular activities.This study aims to fill the gap by investigating the employers’ perspectives on the effects of cocurricular activities towards employability. In order to achieve the aims, this research adopted a quantitative research where by giving questionnaire to the respondents. The finding of this research show that the most important employability is initiative/self-motivation and career as the most important for the types of co-curricular activities. Some recommendation of this research is educational institution should aware towards the participation students in cocurricular activities.