Nowadays many job interviewers and employers are looking for various additional sources of information to better understand a job applicant Which is the best way for the employers to better know the situation of a job applicant 1 Contacting previous emplo

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Nowadays many job interviewers and employers are looking for various additional sources of information to better understand a job applicant. Which is the best way for the employers to better know the situation of a job applicant?

1. 询问候选人前雇主；Contacting previous employers the job applicant worked for and asking for further information；

2. 查看候选人社交媒体和资料介绍；Checking the job applicant's profile on social platforms (such as social networking websites and social media) ；

3. 实习一个月; Letting the job applicant work for the company for a short period of time(1-month) and then decide whether to hire him permanently.

Candidates' resumes cannot provide all the information employers need. Hence, to get a thorough understanding of the candidates, job interviewers and employers may turn to social platforms or their former employers for reference checks. However, neither of the sources can offer genuine and complete information. In fact, a short period of internship is the most desirable way to better know about the potential employees.
During a job interview, asking personal questions, which is justifiable, may make candidates feel uncomfortable, not to mention the fact that it may be deemed as discriminatory. Checking out candidates’ social media presence across all major platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn for answers can avoid such awkwardness, meanwhile offering a better insight into their skills and experience. However, are posts and profiles online completely truthful? The answer is surely negative. In fact, as such information may reveal the candidates’ personal traits and their past performance, the dark sides of them like police records or irritable personalities are unlikely to be revealed. The worst case is that some shining points are fabricated to trick their potential employers. If such insincere information is not detected, which is highly likely, the company hiring such candidates may eventually suffer great losses.
Contacting former employers the candidates worked for is less undesirable, and there seems no reason for them to give untruthful information. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that the information collected is incomplete. This is because former employers are not obligated to answer the reference check questions, nor should they be responsible for any inauthentic descriptions. In this case, when contacted, former employers may respond in an offhand manner, giving bits and pieces of information that is irrelevant or insignificant.
It thus follows that a short period of internship is the best way to find the best candidate for the job. After monitoring job applicants’ progress, employers can know about everything about them including their intelligence, skills, ability to cope with stress, social skills and weaknesses. More importantly, with some actual works accomplished, employers can gauge potential employees’ abilities and prepare them for future works, in case they will be eventually engaged. Not to mention, under close observation, candidates can hardly fake their performance and traits, and the information obtained is much more complete than the answers collected from previous employers.
In conclusion, compared with social platforms and previous employers, an internship is the best way to know about job applicants.

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Average: 9.6 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 438, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an offhand manner" with adverb for "offhand"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...contacted, former employers may respond in an offhand manner, giving bits and pieces of information ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.0752688172 223% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2293.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71820448878 4.8611393121 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17536960381 2.67179642975 119% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54114713217 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 688.5 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0736017575 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.65 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.05 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2 5.45110844103 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291598767951 0.236089414692 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816210325464 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685848684985 0.0737576698707 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177031008167 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623273240042 0.0645574589148 97% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 11.7677419355 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 10.9000537634 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.247311828 156% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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