Nowadays, some employers think that formal academic qualifications are more important than life experience or personal qualities when they look for new employees. Why is it the case? Is it a positive or negative development?
It is true that companies have prioritized candidates’ degrees over their life experience and personalities during the recruitment process. There are two main reasons for this trend, and in my opinion, its disadvantages considerably outweigh the advantages.
I understand why some recruiters consider candidates’ academic degrees to be the most essential criterion when they look for new employees. First, academic qualifications speak a volume of candidates’ knowledge. In fact, when they pursue higher education, they have to study a wide range of academic subjects and do a lot of training sessions as well as exams. This provides them with a mountain of understanding about the fields they work for after graduation. Second, in some specialized jobs such as teachers, or doctors, academic qualifications are reliable evidence to showcase a major-related grasp of candidates. This means they are skillfully and carefully trained to prepare for their career prospects when they are still at university or institutions.
Personally, I hold a strong belief that this trend does more harm than good. One of the most significant disadvantages is that companies are more likely to miss potential candidates if they put too much focus on formal education background. More importantly, life experience and characteristics practically help when it comes to dealing with unexpected situations such as customers’ complaints. Another disadvantage to consider is if employers seek candidates with certificates solely, it would lead to some qualification-related issues like fake bachelor’s degrees in the job-hunting market. To be more specific, some candidates would buy degrees illegally to be qualified for vacancies and pass the CV testing round.
To conclude, although possessing a degree is of great importance, I do not think selecting candidates should hugely depend on this.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, second, so, still, well, in fact, such as, as well as, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1605.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 284.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.6514084507 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.4685136138 2.80592935109 124% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633802816901 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.7252788766 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.642857143 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 7.06120827912 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272417916845 0.244688304435 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863138768942 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0476792640094 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130214936692 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0804676790578 0.056905535591 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.49 12.4159519038 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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