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. Others disagree. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Job seekers these days are occasionally being asked to furbish personal data such as their leisure activities, preferences, marital status and interests. Few people are of the opinion that extracting such information could be beneficial on the contrary some people do not agree with it. In this essay, I will succinctly discuss both point of views and will present my opinion.
Owing to the technological advancements and latest researches in social sciences public and private companies are now investing largely in developing proper human resource and organizational development departments. Advocates of human resource believe that, private information about one’s medical conditions, marital status, preferences, or interests helps companies in facilitating its employees in the short and long-run. For instance, group insurance policy of a company covers majority of the medical related needs of its employees and their families such as OPD, maternity cost, surgery or a bypass. Additionally, if employee will not show his/her marital status he/she will not be entitled to an extended family related insurance benefits. Moreover, employee’s hobbies, interest or preferences are an important part of a psychometric testing that helps recruiters in deciding right department or training course for the employee. Another example is armed forces where an applicant is required by law to disclose all his/her personal information as this helps psychologists in armed forces to better analyze and understand applicant’s personality. For instance, a person who is more interested in video games and less interested in outdoor activities is likely to get a job in armed forces because of the physically demanding nature of a job.
On the contrary, few people disagree with this notion, as they believe companies use candidate’s private information to target them for their vested interests such as, tracking a person’s interest or hobbies will possibly flood his email box or internet surfing or social media accounts with unwanted marketing and sales campaign. Such confidential data has sometime been sold to other companies in the form of sales lead which is then used by shabby companies for scams or illegal activities. For instance, Facebook recently face huge public backlash due to leaking private data of its users to Russia during US presidential elections.
In my opinion, I believe that private data such as number of siblings, marital status, interests or hobbies is important for employers if used in the well-being of employees. It is important to understand that data privacy is an important issue in today’s world and should be protected under law. Proper legislation is required to force institutions whether state or private to abide by the data protection laws and strict penalties should be imposed in-case of violation.
In conclusion, companies should take a great care while dealing with employees private data and make sure data is effectively used in the welfare of its people and proper confidentiality should be maintained .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, moreover, so, then, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 10.4138276553 230% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2622.0 1615.20841683 162% => OK
No of words: 473.0 315.596192385 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54334038055 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.20363070211 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11605589495 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 176.041082164 149% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556025369979 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 829.8 506.74238477 164% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.5822622099 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.235294118 106.682146367 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8235294118 20.7667163134 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17647058824 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233725584228 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0755985015459 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0581063235468 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137247367795 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0791355948379 0.056905535591 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 13.0946893788 142% => 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: 15.15 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.85 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 78.4519038076 186% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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