Higher education value is measured through the employment rate of the graduates. Employment rate also affect the government performance rate. Many factors affect hiring decision such as Academic Performance (AP), Personality (PE), Communication Skills (CK), Leadership and Motivation (LM), Technical Skills (TS), Team work and Problem solving (TP), University Reputation (UR), Continuous Learning (CL), Career Marketing Demand (CMD), and Job Search Tool (JST). In this paper, factors that affect graduate employability (GE) are examined. Primary data collected from a sample of 350 employers through a structured questionnaire working as the hiring managers. Exploratory factor analysis was used and structural equation modeling with AMOS (24) to test the hypothesized relationship between each independent variable and the dependent one. The research provides a model that can be used by educational institutions to assist graduates in finding a job and creating their career.Results showed that TS,AP,TP,UR,CL,CMD positively significantly affect Graduate employment and PE,CK,LM, and JST affect Graduate employment but insignificantly. AP, TP, UR, CL and CMD have positive significant impact with values respectively: 0.461, 0.582, 0.497, 0.422, 0.509, and 0.437. While PE, CK, LM, JST has a positive impact on GE but insignificantly. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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