The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the leadership attributes and motivation to lead (MTL) of undergraduates in Malaysia with their inclination to choose specific types of job characteristics or job attributes. Many researches has proven that personality is positively related to preferred job characteristics, but no research to the researchers' knowledge has been done on leadership attributes and motivation to lead with selected job characteristics. Data were collected from 711 undergraduates from Malaysian public universities. The results showed that leader As a conclusion, the study depicts the selection of specific job characteristics' is very much influenced by leader attributes. Exposure to leadership training and development will help undergraduates to possess wider emotional and cognitive maturity. Besides, having leadership attributes and having the desire/motivation to lead appear to be mutually reinforcing in determining preferences of most job characteristics, but the nature and magnitude of their influence are different. Universities need to consider developing more leadership attribute development workshops for their undergraduates to enable them to gain higher cognitive maturity and cultivate preference for broader job quality characteristics.