Each year, students across Malaysia vote for the employers they most want to build a career with. The winners are decided by the graduates themselves.
Get on the register, be voted on against your own sector, and find out how the country's students rank you.
How It Works ↓Your vote decides the winners. It takes a couple of minutes, and it is the whole point of the award.
Cast Your Vote →Each year, students and fresh graduates across the nation vote for the employers they most want to build a career with. The Graduates' Choice Award reflects that collective voice, showing where the country's emerging talent genuinely wants to work.
It has run since 2018, and it remains the recognition employers value because it comes straight from the people they hope to hire.
The award is only worth as much as the process behind it, so the process is fixed.
Every result comes from student and graduate votes. No panel overrides them, and no employer can buy a place in the outcome.
Votes are audited before any winner is announced, so the numbers behind a title hold up to scrutiny.
How votes are gathered, verified and counted is published, not held back as a trade secret.
Employers are judged against genuine peers in their own sector, so a win means something specific.
Each edition runs a full year, from the day voting opens to the night the winners are announced.
The register for the cycle goes live and students begin casting votes.
We take the vote to universities nationwide, in person and online.
National media carry the story, putting the shortlist in front of the country.
The ballot shuts and the raw results are locked for review.
An independent audit verifies the count before anything is published.
Results are released and the winners are recognised at the annual gala.
Carried by national media since 2018, including Bernama from 2019.
Every cycle is officiated by Guests of Honour drawn from the Ministry of Higher Education and senior university leadership, an unbroken line since the inaugural ceremony.
Universities from across Malaysia send delegations each year: public research, focus, technical and private institutions, represented by Vice Chancellors, Deputy VCs and career services leads. During the 2020 and 2021 pandemic cycles the vote ran in full and winners were announced, without an in-person gala.
Its form takes after a scroll, an old symbol of wisdom and knowledge: commanding in black, lifted by gold, and curved to mark the relationship between tomorrow's leaders and the organisations that nurture them.
Not a plaque, an artefact. Champions are expected to display it, because what it represents was earned rather than given.
A circular mark bordered in gold, centred on the GCA insignia. The circle is the form of a seal of approval, historically the final mark of authentication on a document of weight.
Where the trophy sits in the boardroom, the Seal travels: careers websites, graduate recruitment collateral, email signatures and career fair backdrops. It is granted to every organisation voted Champion in the preceding cycle, licensed for the award year shown on the mark.
Full recordings of the presentation galas.
Submit your organisation on the Award site. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing.
Choose the sector categories you belong in, so students vote you against the right peers.
Graduates across the nation cast their votes for the employers they most want to join.
The employers graduates choose are recognised as a Graduates' Choice Award winner.
Put your organisation in front of the students deciding where to begin their careers.
Recognition that comes from graduates themselves carries a trust a self-declared badge cannot.
Nominating lists your organisation for the vote. If you are not on the ballot, you cannot be chosen.
