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Rapid and drastic changes in economic growth nowadays are creating higher demands for employability skills in the workforce. Labour market becoming more competitive and depends on quality of knowledge and skills as the globalisation come across in all industry. Employers have high expectations on fresh engineering graduates to perform in their organisation as soon as they are hired. Engineering employability skills are therefore necessary for Malaysia industry to remain competitive in global market. The study investigates the perception of the level of satisfactory on skills owned by engineering graduates in work place, and the expectation of employers on the level of important for each skills required in engineering graduates for future employment. The finding indicates that the majority of those companies employing graduates have been satisfy with the knowledge and skills of the graduates they hired. They expected for new engineers are very important to be equipped with relevant employability skills and abilities. Employers’ perception and expectation play an important role in determining the employability skills needed. Besides, the results provide valuable insight of as they effort towards getting employed with competitive company.