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 maybe relevant and useful. Others disagree. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Job hunting is one of the most daunting and stressful activity. Even when people have found their dream job, employers may sometimes ask for personal information such as hobbies, interests, marital status that might seem unnecessary or too confidential that the job seekers might be hesitant to give answers. But why some employers insist on asking for this kind of information? Are they relevant to the recruitment process as they might think?
From the employer's point of view, questions about personal characteristics such as hobbies and interests might be a valuable piece of information about the candidate they are looking for. For example, warehouse keeping type of job tends to seek for people with relevant skills and personality such as well-organized, tidiness and carefulness. Candidate with these kinds of characters normally interested in volunteer activity, planning for events. Some employers are even asking questions about the marital status of their potential employees This might seem unnecessary at first but if we investigate further, there might be a reason. Caregivers, for example, need to spend a lot of their time on the job. Having a family, a kid or planning to have one might affect their ability to fulfill the requirement of their duty. In this case, for the employer, it becomes mandatory to know the candidate situation.
But what about the employees? The employee might feel the questions are too personal, or they might even be affected and rejected because of their personal life. As we have seen in the example of the caregiver, answering whether he/she married or not might be the deciding factor of their job hunt. It doesn’t seem fair for some people to have their job affected by their personal interests. There is always the need for work-life balance and work shouldn’t be dictated by personal choices.
So there must be a middle ground somewhere that could please both sides? In my opinion, asking and answering a personal question is a matter of choice for both sides. For employers, if they think these kinds of questions are a helpful way to know more about the candidate, it is their choice to ask the questions and it is also the candidate’s choice to answer it or not. Answer these questions will help to show who the candidate is and show that he/she is suitable for the job, given that the questions asked are appropriated.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, well, for example, kind of, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 397.0 315.596192385 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01511335013 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78082219889 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481108312343 0.561755894193 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 604.8 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6671747944 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.55 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.85 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35 7.06120827912 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.373479852657 0.244688304435 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120497559756 0.084324248473 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0810449380051 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246693355016 0.151304729494 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0790201962207 0.056905535591 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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