Recruitment delay or shortage happen nowadays is due to the gap between academic qualification and industrial expectation which ultimately influence graduates� skill and experience.This paper proposes strategic planning tools as a starting point for systematizing industrial advisory panel and academic collaboration in a strategic manner.Industrial advisors point of view shared communication, assist academic to evaluate recruitment environment, expect future trends in higher education, find solutions to solve recruitment problems in diverse forms which helps to elevate awareness, decrease the risks affects students intake and finally deliver a framework for assessing the relative prominence of various academic program portfolios.Thus, this paper introduces several strategic planning tools to sustain a synergistic industrial advisory panel and academic collaboration, to divulge the spirit of strategic planning and its tools, to single out the successful collaboration mechanism. © 2023, Institute of Technology PETRONAS Sdn Bhd.