Employers should focus on personal qualities over qualifications and experience when choosing someone for a job To what extent do you agree or disagree

When it comes to hiring job applicants high qualifications and experience on the field are usually what employers are seeking for. However, studies recommend recruiters to take into consideration other less tangible but nevertheless critical aspects, like personal qualities. To some extent this statement has some truth to it, although I tend to believe that focusing on personal marks rather than practical skills can have a detrimental effect on a company.

Selecting the right candidate among dozens if not hundreds can be tricky. In some cases recruiter experience some difficulties when it comes to choosing the best candidate for a job position. These days a high percentage of young over their 20s possess a degree and have job experience. Candidates with previous practice who have honed their knowledge ans skills through apprenticeships and valuable training schemes undoubtedly have an edge over other competitors. It is also when the room for choosing becomes narrower that personal skills could play a pivotal role in getting the job. Skills like problem solving, mindfulness, attention, and self-assessment are extremely coveted by companies which need workforce able to focus and solve tasks. As we can see a straight degree even when underpinned by solid qualifications and work experience might not be enough. To execute particular tasks having special personal qualities is the key to master the job. Let us take a practical example: a doctor should obviously be able to diagnose diseases and to find the proper cure but it should also show compassion and kindness to patients, specially when they are children. For this kind of profession, but also other like teacher, nurse, shop assistants, waitress, personal skills can make the difference and be decisive when it comes to evaluating performances. Nobody would feel comfortable being examined by a rude doctor or served by an arrogant waitress.

On the other hand, we should also consider the fact that for other jobs, personal qualities play little or no role at all. Manual jobs, for instance, are a good example to it. A craftsman, an electrician, or a plumber do not necessarily be kind or sensible. When your apartment is about to be flooded or is plunged in the darkest darkness, all that you want is someone being able to fix the problem promptly. To draw a line, personal skills can be essential in some field but completely dispensable in others.

In conclusion, qualifications, experience and personal skills are all factors that should be considered in evaluating candidates. Cheery, open minded workers create for sure a brighter atmosphere at work but what it really counts is that companies hire the most qualified and prepared person for a specific job. To put it another way, employing funny candidates may grant some hours of entertainment but would lead to no results if they are unable to complete their tasks.

Votes
Average: 8.6 (14 votes)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'but'.
Suggestion: but
... into consideration other less tangible but nevertheless critical aspects, like personal qualiti...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'cases'' or 'case's'?
Suggestion: cases'; case's
... if not hundreds can be tricky. In some cases recruiter experience some difficulties ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, so, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in some cases, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2441.0 1615.20841683 151% => OK
No of words: 471.0 315.596192385 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18259023355 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.20363070211 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95700746511 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 176.041082164 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562632696391 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 756.9 506.74238477 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0007054969 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.954545455 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4090909091 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.68181818182 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.309155838758 0.244688304435 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0824246731451 0.084324248473 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647314417103 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182400647727 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296908629129 0.056905535591 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 78.4519038076 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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