Individual of the Millennial Generation are born along with technologies improvement. Consequently, it has created rapid changes in working structure as well as working environment that requires how they could continuously learn and adapt with new situation on their work future. Career adaptability is a critical variable, which convey meaning the ability to adjust oneself thus, fit with change in their career. Thus, in time with increasingly diverse, the ability to navigate and adapt with changes and challenging work are most important. Positive Psychological Traits are major predictors that been recognized as vital capacities on how these students are able to cope with turbulent changes in future work. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate Positive Psychological Traits and Career Adaptability among Millennials as well as to identify the most influential factor in Positive Psychological Traits that influence career adaptability among students at Universiti Teknologi Mara Melaka City Campus. This study used convenience sampling techniques and online questionnaire as an instrument to collect data. The data from 70% out of 329 students are collected then evaluated by using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Version 23 Software. The result from multiple regression analysis indicates that all the elements in Positive Psychological Traits which is resilience, optimism and hope have positive significant relationship with career adaptability. Moreover, regression analysis revealed that, resilience found to be the most influential variables towards career adaptability among these millennials at Universiti Teknologi Mara Melaka City Campus.
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