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 views and give your own opinion.
Selecting the ideal employee for a particular job would become a challenging task for the managers. Some people believe that finding personal information or material status will help to decide their capabilities and their focus. However, others argue that it will not be useful to judge the person in an interview. Both sides of the controversy put forward rational arguments which will be elaborated.
To begin with, the predominant reason for the interviewer to ask for personal information is that it helps to get an idea about an individual’s interest and analytical abilities. This will be useful to decide whether that person is suitable for a job or not. For instance, knowing that a candidate is a good sports player would represent his ability to work with many team players. Furthermore, the extra personal data can make the management more considerate towards staffs’ circumstances. For example, at times the managers would delegate tasks that require staff’s presence at weekends to those without family commitments, thus being mindlessly compared with those with extra responsibilities.
On the other hand, many of those who disagree with this argument doubt the authenticity of such answers provided in the job applications. That is, job applicants tend to make up some hobbies and interests just to impress the employers. According to a survey conducted by a student group from the London School of Economics, only 40% of the respondents of a survey gave genuine answers when asked about their extracurricular interests. Besides, personal preferences ought to be kept private as it can lead to bias and discrimination during the hiring. For instance, many married female medical practitioners report they were filtered during the hiring process in hospitals as employees automatically presumed them unsuitable or unavailable for night-shifts or working around the clock in an emergency crisis due to their marital commitments.
On balance, Although the availability of personnel’s personal information can lead to bias, I believe the positive impacts associated with an employer’s awareness of a staff’s hobby and interests outweigh any negligible disadvantage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, furthermore, however, if, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 338.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48520710059 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19214179913 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618343195266 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 578.7 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2714905609 49.4020404114 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5333333333 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.362506200181 0.244688304435 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111066445298 0.084324248473 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697621213268 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202201694269 0.151304729494 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484552424321 0.056905535591 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.