Some employers believe that job applicants' social skills are more important than their academic qualifications. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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Some employers believe that job applicants' social skills are more important than their academic qualifications. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

There has been much discussion revolving around the issue of whether job applicants' social skills are more important than their academic qualifications. In this essay, I will explain why social skills are more vital, compared with academic qualifications.

The merits of outstanding social skills are apparent. Firstly, communication is the key to career success in this day and age. This is mainly due to the fact that the 21st century is best characterized by constant interaction with different people, no matter the communication happens in person or online. Secondly, the ability to sell products or services is of paramount significance in any business - this requires strong social skills. For example, an employee with excellent social skills is able to have an impact in front of customers or clients; as a result, products or services can be perceived as high-value. Furthermore ,employees with better social skills are generally more easy-going, which is very important to the workplace, including the employer. After all, as the saying goes, "Who you work with is as important as what you do." - An enjoyable work environment needs socially skilful employees.

In contrast, some others may claim that academic qualifications are the pre-requisite of employment. Apparently, many positions require certain qualifications. However, in modern-day society, more and more employers have realised that whether employees can get the results that the business wants is the key to a business' success. It can be seen that qualifications do not play a key role in this regard.

Having considered both views, I think employees' social skills are of overriding importance for an organisation. Also, I would suggest employers consider job applicants' social skills first, which I believe is soundly based on the above reasoning I have presented.

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Average: 7.3 (3 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, after all, for example, i think, in contrast, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1572.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47735191638 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14760234687 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592334494774 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4899465233 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.8 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1333333333 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429208261493 0.244688304435 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126678842753 0.084324248473 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0905794161743 0.0667982634062 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250242960926 0.151304729494 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110145683738 0.056905535591 194% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => 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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