Problem Statement

People nowadays in mass media, academician discussion and social researcher discussion have made known to public about the generation gap and the discussion is more focus on the Y Generation. As a result, many research and study have been done by the researcher and the academican on Y generation.

We also know that The Ministry of Higher Education have set a target for the year of 2013 to all IPTA to increase the rate of student employability from 80% to 100% and the student are employed during 6 month after graduation. We can say that students and graduates today are from the Y generation (based on the research done by Cordrington & Marshall, 2005 and become reference to Prof. Madya Dr. Mariani Md Nor from Universiti Malaya stated that the Y generation as the generation that born between year 1977 – 1998).

Therefore, I propose a study to be conducted to study the readiness of the Y generation to work. Today, we can see the trend of the decline in graduate employability as the feedback from the industries state that graduate nowadays cannot fulfill the characteristics demanded by the industries of their future employees.

This study will provide current information regarding issue in graduate employability, graduate preparation to enter employment world, graduate awareness to the industries evaluation of their future employee and whether geography and income factors have an effect on student employability.