College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The scope of being employed in a field is one of the biggest factors that students consider when choosing what to study at college. Universities offer a wide range of courses, of which only a few may deal with high-demand fields. The issue at hand is whether students should consider job availability as the core factor in their decision-making. However, this is not enough; simply looking at the job prospects of a degree programme does not guarantee a student's success. There are many other things to be considered when making such a career-defining decision, though the importance of keeping job prospects as just one of the items on the long list of considerations is not something to ignore.
The first thing for a student to consider when picking a degree would be their interest in the field. This is objectively better than just taking up studies in a field that one does not care for; it produces disinterested employees/workers who, though widely sought after by many companies in the job market, would not feel a sense of self-fulfilment in their job. Self-fulfilment is necessary for people to stay motivated at their jobs, and it is a widespread observation that employees who are happy with their jobs do better. Even if they err, they keenly learn how to do better, and do not fall into a state of ennui. Even among researchers, the people who are in the job primarily out of interest tend to be more enthusiastic about pushing forward, reaching milestone after milestone. At the IITs, the most prestigious engineering colleges of India, students who choose subjects without considering their own real interests have been recorded to score poorer, and often opt to switch their courses. This just reduces the time they get to spend in their field of interest, and leads such students to have to work extra-hard to reach the level that they would have, had they chosen their dream field. Hence, a student's interest is quintessential, and must be prioritised over job availability.
Second, the uncertainty of the job market for various fields is volatile. One may decide to study data science in 2020, seeing as it was growing by leaps and bounds as a field, and companies at the time recruited plenty of students in relevant fields, but when they later graduate in, say, 2024, the field's expansion rate may have flattened or dipped. The companies may have shifted to employing students with more generalised skills like artificial intelligence or machine learning, rather than plain data science. Predicting the availability of jobs at the time of a student's graduation is hard, and it goes to show that considering this as the sole factor in course selection is not a sound plan. If a subject does not pique a student's interest, and they end up taking the course simply by looking at the current prospects, it may not yield favourable results. Hence, this is another reason why job availability can not be the go-to factor for a student's course choices.
Finally, we must not understate the importance of job availability when making this decision, at one of the most vital crossroads of a student's professional life. A large majority of students study in the hopes that it will yield returns; what they pay to learn today, they hope will pay them back tomorrow. Completely obscuring the job prospects of a field could cause students to pick fields that no one employs them in. The field in question may be dormant or may be in its elementary or moribund phases, it is often hard to discern. But students could place a, say, 30% weight of their career decisions on the job availability in their field. Sure, a complex equation could be hypothesized. But 30% seems like a 'good enough' level of weight to place. It still takes into account the job prospects of a field, while also not ignoring the several other factors that are at play in a student's life.
Hence, although college students should surely consider the availability of jobs in a field when choosing what to study, this should not eclipse the several other things that they must take into account. The importance of making a well-thought-out decision at this stage of a student's education can simply not be overstated.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun may seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'little may'.
Suggestion: little may
... wide range of courses, of which only a few may deal with high-demand fields. The issue...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...a degree programme does not guarantee a students success. There are many other things to...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'fields'' or 'field's'?
Suggestion: fields'; field's
... they later graduate in, say, 2024, the fields expansion rate may have flattened or di...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...e availability of jobs at the time of a students graduation is hard, and it goes to show...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...ability can not be the go-to factor for a students course choices. Finally, we must not...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
... at one of the most vital crossroads of a students professional life. A large majority of ...
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Message: Did you forget something after 'a'?
...rd to discern. But students could place a, say, 30% weight of their career decisio...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ral other factors that are at play in a students life. Hence, although college studen...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...thought-out decision at this stage of a students education can simply not be overstated....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, still, thus, well, while, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 104.0 58.6224719101 177% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3494.0 2235.4752809 156% => OK
No of words: 716.0 442.535393258 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87988826816 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.17283059074 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85322855813 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 327.0 215.323595506 152% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456703910615 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1057.5 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8017341264 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.482758621 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6896551724 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.62068965517 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247386399714 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0799274208126 0.0831039109588 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455176464177 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163658378958 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0211610274604 0.0667264976115 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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