Yusuf, NasidiAminu, Garba WaziriAdeogun, Adekunle SundayAgava, Yusuf Halim2022-12-012022-12-012020-12122638-4832https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/7992Opportunities for development of career, skill and performance improvement, sense of personal accomplishment, plan training and career development with manager, skills needed to deliver objectives is a result of training and career development among non-academic staff of the University in Nigeria. This paper empirically explored the influence of training and career development on employee engagement. Structured Close-ended questionnaire survey were employed to collect data from the non-academic staff of the Nigeria university, and Structural Equation Modeling, Partial Least Squares technique was used to analyze the 150 responses out of the 237-population representing 63.34%. The results indicated that training and career development has significant influence on employee engagement. The implication is that this study’s model can predict the training and career development influence on engaged employee of the sampled non - academic staff of the university, the framework of this study is a contribution to knowledge because it complements the literature, extending the Social Extend Theory (SET) to employee engagement at the university level and recommendations were highlighted. Keywords: Employee engagement, training and career developmentenEmployee engagementtrainingcareer developmentArticle