In this increasingly competitive society, formal academic degrees are considered to be more crucial than hands-on experience by some job recruiters when they seek new candidates. This trend happens due to several causes, and I believe it is a negative tendency.
To begin with, there are some reasons why a host of employers prefer formal qualifications to practical skills. Firstly, since universities usually provide an interactive learning environment for pupils to not only acquire basic knowledge but also cultivate soft skills, getting these degrees can open the door to better job opportunities. For example, doing group projects help students improve interpersonal and teamworking skills. As a result, they can fully develop themselves more rapidly. Secondly, many professional jobs need to be studied for a long period of time in universities. To become a doctor, for instance, students have to accumulate specialized knowledge and carry out a myriad of experiments. If people do not pursue higher education, they might be not qualified to apply for such kinds of jobs.
However, I would argue this is a negative development because of some drawbacks. First, having a university degree no longer plays an important role in seeking career prospects even in this knowledge-based society. This is because vocational training with a much shorter period of time currently gains more popularity among employees because it enhances employment opportunities, coupled with job security upon completion. Additionally, since when almost all people pursue tertiary education and get formal qualifications, they tend to apply for jobs that the are deserved for. This leads to lack of blue-collar workers, which contributes directly to imbalances in the workforce that would damage the economic structure of a country.
In conclusion, this tendency is caused by several reasons, and I believe it brings greater disadvantages.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: period
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...tions, they tend to apply for jobs that the are deserved for. This leads to lack of blu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1638.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57142857143 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16299464865 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.561755894193 119% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8385406358 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.2 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242201372531 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733362893424 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618271352969 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125598141985 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0742136309388 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.0 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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