Having a good university degree guarantees people a good job To what extent do you agree

University degrees date back to the late 12th century, although until about 100 years ago they were exclusively linked to the church. At the beginning of the 20th century they became more available and today roughly 40% of the 20-year-olds students go to university. With those figures it becomes clear that the chance of getting a graduate job are narrower than in the past, but it also shows that employers are less willing to hire applicants without a degree.

Opinion is divided when it comes to the benefit of getting a degree. Experts who believe that having a degree is an edge over other applicants, underline the fact that graduates eanr significantly more than non graduates over the course of their career. They point out, that students should choose carefully not only the subject they want to study but the university they would attend. It is therefore crucial to select a degree program that will develop employability skills as well as give subject knoweledge. In addition to this fact, it is also important that students use their time proficiently, making the most of extra-curricular opportunities available in order to stand out from the competition and secure their perfect job.

On the other hand, others claim that a straight degree might not be enough on its own. Employers demand skills and often work experience as well. Meanwhile developing entreprise and people skills, as well as specialist skills is pivotal. Skills like motivation, independent thinking, problem solving, self-assesment, target setting, energy and focus to finish complex tasks are what employers value most.

In conclusion, far too often, accademic achievement is seen as the only route to securing a good job, but the truth is that there is a wide variety of routes to great careers. From mechanical engineering to design, many careers can be entered via apprenticeships, qualifications from futher education colleges or tailored training schemes in the workplace.

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Average: 8.9 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 147, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
...ills and often work experience as well. Meanwhile developing entreprise and people skills...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, therefore, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1655.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22082018927 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91920001823 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.649842271293 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4148737476 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.214285714 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6428571429 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.14285714286 7.06120827912 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.119648294307 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0322623125039 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0272285077163 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0608502595204 0.151304729494 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00663074502531 0.056905535591 12% => 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: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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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