Most employers nowadays put increasing emphasis on social skills. Some people believe that social skills are important in addition to good qualifications for job success. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Most employers nowadays put increasing emphasis on social skills. Some people believe that social skills are important in addition to good qualifications for job success. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

I definitely agree with that today social skills are considered as important as good qualifications while recruiting new employees. Hiring the right candidate based on technical knowledge without looking at social skills is like designing a race car with a powerful engine but with substandard steering and braking system. No business can thrive if its employees, however highly qualified they may be, lack the soft skills.

It is easy to see why employers are putting emphasis on social skills in addition to qualifications. Social skills reflect a person's ability to work with others in a way that strengthens long-term working relationships. There are many personal traits such as creativity, adaptability, honesty, integrity and efforts, which are also important besides technical skills. A university degree does not signal whether a person has those traits. A degree does not indicate in any way, how a person will function in the real world.

Moreover, it has been seen that when recruitments are focused only on candidate's technical skills and experience as well as expertise, then it resulted in hiring employee who had the intellect to suced but lacked the social skills required to work effectively. This is because they lacked emotional intelligence, which is ability to understand their own emotions and those of others and to use this emotional understanding to adjust and cooperate with others. This resulted in interpersonal conflict and frustration and sometimes such employees had to be fired. What is more, such employees were unable to handle the social demands of leadership and so had to remain at lower level of jobs.

Undoubtedly, academic qualifications are also important because just as clothing is to first impression, so is a university degree to a first job or a job with a good pay. The first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at an individual's experience. A degree simply proves that an individual has acquired the necessary academic knowledge of how to carry out a job. Having a degree most definitely helps the recruiters in hiring suitable candidates.

In summary, it is clear to understand why social skills are given a lot of importance in addition to qualifications. Such skills are the key to success a work.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
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Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'understanding adjusting'.
Suggestion: understanding adjusting
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, then, well, while, in addition, in summary, such as, as well as, what is more

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1925.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 371.0 315.596192385 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18867924528 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04446454969 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55525606469 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 605.7 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6504603711 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.944444444 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6111111111 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88888888889 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234935047318 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738618389519 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076062828019 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131162595666 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444051931094 0.056905535591 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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