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This paper deliberately examines the role of mentoring in the relationship between job design and career adaptability among newly employed graduates. The struggle of newly employed graduates to adapt to work challenges and industrial demand impacts crafting current and future careers. The involvement of mentors in designing the job assists newly employed graduates in comprehending their job responsibilities. In response to the study, 200 newly employed graduates had less than two years of work experience. The data is analysed using IBM SPSS software 28.0 through multiple linear regression and PROCESS procedure Version 4.1 by Hayes (2022). The major findings show that mentoring mediates the relationship between job design and career adaptability. The study results also show that there is a direct relationship between job design and mentoring and between job design and career adaptability. The achievement of career adaptability depends strongly on a person's adaptivity to their working surroundings. Compatibility in fulfilling employment requirements facilitates people's unnecessary adjustment to the job. Therefore, organizational support in enhancing people's adaptability through diverse human resource development approaches could lead newly employed graduates to have plans for current and future career trajectories. Consequently, further study could focus on human resource development approaches such as training, promotion, career succession programs, job mobility, job rotation, or coaching to become a mediator or as a predictor for the achievement of career adaptability.
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