RELATIONSHIP OF CAREER CONCORDANCE, CAREER SELF-EFFICACY, EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS, CAREER ADAPTABILITY ON THE CAREER CONSTRUCTION OF MALAYSIA POLYTECHNIC BACHELOR’S DEGREE STUDENTS

Career construction is a critical area of focus for all prospective graduates need to pay attention to. Literature studies state that prospective graduates' career construction includes identifying career concordance, career self-efficacy, employability skills and career adaptability as important elements that contribute to a person's career success. The objective of this study is to identify the level relationship of career concordance, career self-efficacy, employability skills and career adaptability to the career construction of Bachelor's degree students at Malaysian Polytechnics. This study was conducted on Bachelor's degree students from four (4) Polytechnics in Malaysia. The study design used in this study was in the form of a correlation study. The correlation study conducted was to see the relationship between the independent variables, namely career concordance, career self-efficacy, employability skills and career adaptability to the dependent variable, namely career constrcution. This study was conducted on 274 respondents who were randomly selected through stratification. This study was conducted 'online' by distributing a set of questionnaires in the form of 'google form' which was conducted for content validity by appointed experts. Data analysis of this study was conducted using Statistical Package for Social Sciences 25 (SPSS) software. The findings reported that the correlation between the variables studied career concordance, career self-efficacy, and career adaptability to career construction were found to be significant and as expected (p<.05). While the correlation of employability skills variables was found to be not significant (p>.05). This reported that the relationship between career concordance, career self-efficacy, and career adaptability showed a positive relationship with the career construction of Bachelor's Degree Polytechnic students, While the employability skills variable reported no relationship with career construction. The findings of this study can make an important contribution to the relationship between the variables studied in the study. In short, it has an impact on the career construction of Bachelor's Degree Students at Malaysian Polytechnics.