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 the vie

When a candidate applies for a job he is been interviewed by the interviewer who is either a HR or the Employer. During the interview he is asked various questions so that the employer is confident that the candidate is suitable for the job. However, some interviewers do ask the candidate sensitive information, for example if the candidate is single or married, what religion he belong to. Some claim that asking such type of sensitive question is not correct as it can be misused.

Employers do ask for personal information for numerous reasons. Firstly instead of directly asking the candidate question relating to his job, the HR do ask personal question to make the applicant comfortable. For instance during an interview the applicant was so nervous and due to this he was not able to answer the interviewer. The interviewer asked him about his hobbies and talent, which the candidate kept on talking, this calmed him down. Later after the candidate was comfortable answering, they asked him question pertaining to his field. Secondly, form personal information only many employers get to know the character of a person or if he is fit for the job and how long will he continue in the firm. For example, a female applicant was being interviewed for a position in the call center, which was a night shift job. The HR asked her if she was married and has children. Asking such type of question the HR will definitely know if the candidate is seeking for a temporary job or a full time job. This helps the selector to shortlist the candidates.

Some people are of the opinion that this can be misused. For instance, by asking the type of religion, caste or place of origin, some interviewer can get partial with the candidate. For example deserving candidate despite of good academic record, are not absorbed in the organisation because the interviewer prefer hiring candidates from his own locality or district. Similarly, some male employers intentionally ask young females who have come for interview about their family background. These female being in desperation for getting the job tends to share their personal information. This information are being misused by the employer or the male HR.

To recapitulate, I feel that the merits in asking personal question outweigh the demerits as by asking personal question the recruiter can find the deserving candidate for the job. However, recruiter also need to take precaution, not to leak out this sensitive information as it is against the corporate law.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 382, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'belongs'.
Suggestion: belongs
... is single or married, what religion he belong to. Some claim that asking such type of...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 996, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...ate is seeking for a temporary job or a full time job. This helps the selector to shortli...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, for example, for instance, i feel

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2103.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 421.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99524940618 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86571672728 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467933491686 0.561755894193 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 664.2 506.74238477 131% => 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: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8896832815 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.5909090909 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1363636364 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312677903207 0.244688304435 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114496003301 0.084324248473 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057967157872 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206511757314 0.151304729494 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052539149317 0.056905535591 92% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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