Employers sometimes ask people applying for jobs for personal information, such as their hobbies and interests, and whether they are married or single. Some people say that this information may be relevant and useful. Other disagree. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
In modern society, a job interview is arguably one of the most essential process for employers to assess job seekers’ capacity before providing them with a certain position. However, numerous employers have a tendency to obtain personal information from job applicants. Some people believe that such information may be important and valuable while others think personal information is irrelevant to the occupation. The following paragraphs will discuss both views and my own perception.
It is reasonable to believe that personal details could be useful in several cases. First of all, providing employers with personal information, such as hobbies, interests and marital status, enables colleagues to promote their understanding of candidates’ values and innate characteristics. For instance, in terms of interests or hobbies, managers can infer a candidate’s personality type such as an introvert who is unsociable but reflective or an extrovert who is sociable but sometimes impetuous; therefore, managers can allocate a suitable post to an applicant based on the category. In addition, managers can also divide those who share the same values or enthusiasms into the same working group, since those like-minded colleagues can get on and cooperate closely with each other within the group, thereby working effectively and efficiently.
On the other hand, it is also argued that personal information is irrelevant and unworthy of serious attention. Firstly, personal information plays no role in assessing a candidate’s job capacity and cannot be used to determine whether this candidate could bring tangible benefits to the company in future. Furthermore, job applicants might feel uncomfortable and anxious when being requested for information about their marriage, as such questions are viewed as the disrespect towards their privacy or boundary; as a consequence, an increasing number of job seekers will be unlikely to apply for a job at your company, thereby resulting in lack of labours.
In my opinion, it is worth mentioning that requesting for personal information enables employers to familiarize with candidates further, which could also help mangers distribute an appropriate position to the applicant. In the light of such fact, I support the view that it is worth obtaining personal information from job seekers.
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Essay evaluation report
one of the most essential process
one of the most essential processes
for employers to assess job seekers’ capacity before providing them with a certain position.
Description: 'them' refers to what? Be sensitive to use pronouns.
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 355 350
No. of Characters: 1934 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.341 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.448 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.013 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 137 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.308 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.904 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.573 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 302, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
... bring tangible benefits to the company in future. Furthermore, job applicants might feel...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in addition, such as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.3376753507 204% => Less nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2004.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 355.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64507042254 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23900303283 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571830985915 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.2072675327 49.4020404114 170% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.153846154 106.682146367 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3076923077 20.7667163134 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6153846154 7.06120827912 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292822809997 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103676744618 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586998669455 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182953095369 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702756377078 0.056905535591 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.0946893788 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.15 50.2224549098 54% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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