Employment Trends of COVID-19 Graduates: The Case of a Malaysian Public University

This study presents an effort to understand the impact of COVID-19 on Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)’s employment trends especially for those who are being graduated in 2019 and 2020. Questionnaire survey was employed, 505 USIM graduates both 2020 participated this study. Means comparison one-way ANOVA analysis were used identify a significant difference between graduates’ attribute groups during COVID-19. The findings reveal that majority have different as compared their field changed at least once Several attributes including gender, sector, area, salary range involvement with graduate employability (GE) program significantly influence Further, among main reasons changes look better job, suitable job more satisfactory salary. is believed be pioneering identifying dissimilarities current within change frequency graduates. It also contributes by such