Technical education is aims at developing students with technical skills for employability after graduation, however, changing in technology posed a serious challenges to the graduates as employer preffered graduates with emotional intelligence(IE) for empolyability for employability in 21st century, this course for the study to identify the needed emotional intelligence competencies for employability skills of technical education in northern nigeria. in actualizing the objectives 249 technical education graduates participated in the study. the data collected was analyzed using spss version 23 to ascertain the validilty of the data. the result indicated that emotional intelligence competencies are needed for employability skills of technical education graduates in northern nigeria as SD values for the 65 competencies ranged from 0.57 to 1.52 were less than 1.96 that is 95% confidence limit.