Universities need to acquire greater awareness of employers' current requirements to enable the curriculum to include industry engagement and work readiness skills. Soft skills are particular abilities that can improve one's employment performance and career prospects. These soft skills help students to develop their employability skills and make them confident to work in a performance oriented work environment as a critical lifelong learner. This study is conducted to determine the

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... between work readiness skills and career self-efficacy among final year business undergraduates in private universities in Malaysia. This study is based on questionnaires distributed to a sample of 285 respondents in UNITEN (Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus) and MMU (Melaka Campus). This finding shows that, there is a significant relationship between all variables proposed. The findings also indicate that the measurement is fit, as it meets the entire criterion for convergent validity, discriminant validity, as well as reliability. Future researchers are encouraged to include new variables and mediating variables in the research model. The research study provides necessary information on the issues of work readiness skills and career self-efficacy. Thus, it will be beneficial to the education industry and relevant parties such as other researchers to review and use this information for their future research.