Enhancing international students’ employability skills is an increasing concern of universities around the world. Little is known about how non-Western higher education institutions are developing employability of international students. This chapter fills the literature gap by investigating key initiatives and strategies adopted by a Malaysian research university in enhancing employability of international students, thereby contributing to international student development scholarship. Thematic analysis of 55 semi-structured interviews with postgraduate international students and staff members revealed that this university has initiated several within-curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular initiatives to develop internationals students’ discipline-related skills, soft skills and cross-cultural/interpersonal skills. The chapter discusses differences in the adoption of these initiatives compared with those adopted by universities in the West and explains the causes of such differences. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.
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