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

Many times applicants are asked to provide personal information including their interests, hobbies and also marital status. Some recruiters feel that this information is useful. I agree with that view. In my opinion, personal information gives a lot of insight into a job applicant’s personality and hence it is crucial; however, there is a small risk of it being misused by the employer.

However, whether an employee needs to share personal information depends on the nature of the job. For example, a recruiter does not have to ask for the personal information of a contract employee or a consultant whose service is required for only a short period. Whereas in the case of a permanent job an employer must know about an applicant’s hobbies or interests as knowing about a person’s interests can help to understand if they possess leadership skills or if they are a team player. An employer may also benefit from knowing a potential employee’s marital status. For example, if an employer is looking to hire an air hostess who is supposed to work odd hours and even on weekends, it does not make sense for them to hire a woman with young kids.

On the downside, some people insist that employers should not ask for personal information. According to them, the recruiter may use the personal information to discriminate against an employee and this argument is valid to a certain extent. For example, an employer may decide not to hire an applicant whose religious or political ideologies clash with theirs.

To sum it up, I believe that personal information is useful for the employer because in most cases it is a very important indicator of a person’s personality and his comfort level with a job. It is, therefore, understandable why employers ask for this. However, there is a small risk that the employer could use this information against an employee.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 531, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'impacts'?
Suggestion: impacts
... prospective employees. As a result, it impact many employees and in turn, does not ge...
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Line 3, column 627, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of the company as well as for a worker. In conclusion, although some people thin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, well, while, as for, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.48453608247 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 4.92783505155 162% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 5.05154639175 79% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 3.03092783505 330% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 24.0 32.9175257732 73% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 26.3917525773 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.85567010309 182% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1458.0 937.175257732 156% => OK
No of words: 294.0 206.0 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95918367347 4.54256449028 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 3.78020617076 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76558014222 2.54303337028 109% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 127.690721649 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493197278912 0.622605031667 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 290.88556701 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.41237113402 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.13402061856 44% => OK
Article: 2.0 0.824742268041 243% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 1.83505154639 327% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
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: 22.0 16.3608247423 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.1280690029 44.8134815571 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.153846154 76.5299724578 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6153846154 16.8248392259 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.61538461538 4.34317383033 221% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 2.54639175258 79% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 7.41237113402 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.279622563154 0.216113520407 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110648398434 0.0766984524023 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06559297694 0.0603063233224 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199747949171 0.12726935374 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667296258357 0.0580467560999 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 8.37731958763 158% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 70.7449484536 69% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 7.45979381443 160% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 8.71597938144 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 7.59969072165 118% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 41.2886597938 191% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 8.62886597938 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 8.54432989691 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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