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 views and you opinion.
During interviews employers ask a lot of questions some of which may be relevant to the job like educational background and professional experience, while other questions might be more personal in nature like their hobbies, interests, etc. While some people feel that asking personal information may be irrelevant and not useful, others disagree. In my opinion, asking questions about a person's interests helps in getting a better understanding about their passion, likes and dislikes.
Firstly, people are not comfortable discussing their personal life with a stranger, since these days people are very quick in passing a judgement, and during an interview the major focus should be on the job. Many people are of the belief that personal and professional life should be kept seperate and what a person does in his spare time should be a private affair. Secondly, some employers discriminate people on the basis of gender, maritial status, etc. For instance, many companies do not prefer hiring married women as they feel they are more focused on balancing their family life and won't completely commit to the jobs.
On the contrary, asking these questions gives the employer a clear understanding about the character of the person they are going to hire. Moreover, if many employees have the same interests, they can provide a platform to showcase their skills. For example, conducting an inter-department sports competition or providing library facilities to further develope their knowledge. Lastly, some people are very passionate about their hobbies and love to talk about it, thus giving the employer an idea of their background.
Keeping all the above points in mind, asking personal questions not only gives perspective to the employer, but the interviewee also feels good that the interview not purely technical and the company is taking an interest in his life. Although, there are some drawbacks of providing too much personal information, the pros outweigh the cons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: a person; persons
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Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'a' or 'their'?
Suggestion: a; their
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Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...etition or providing library facilities so as to further develope their knowledge. Lastl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, in my opinion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 7.48453608247 187% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 4.92783505155 142% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 5.05154639175 218% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.03092783505 132% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 32.9175257732 64% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 26.3917525773 144% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.85567010309 182% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1692.0 937.175257732 181% => OK
No of words: 321.0 206.0 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27102803738 4.54256449028 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 3.78020617076 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83244220006 2.54303337028 111% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 127.690721649 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566978193146 0.622605031667 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.0 290.88556701 179% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.41237113402 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 9.13402061856 11% => OK
Article: 1.0 0.824742268041 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.83505154639 218% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.463917525773 431% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 1.44329896907 277% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6804123711 103% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 16.3608247423 147% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.0961177433 44.8134815571 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.153846154 76.5299724578 170% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6923076923 16.8248392259 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7692307692 4.34317383033 271% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 2.54639175258 157% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 7.41237113402 94% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.49484536082 134% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.94845360825 101% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319444082641 0.216113520407 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113043098518 0.0766984524023 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0794323696574 0.0603063233224 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176041476168 0.12726935374 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0855835667852 0.0580467560999 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 8.37731958763 187% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 70.7449484536 67% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 3.82989690722 230% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 7.45979381443 170% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 8.71597938144 156% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 7.59969072165 118% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 41.2886597938 203% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 8.62886597938 162% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 8.54432989691 136% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 8.15463917526 172% => 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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