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

Nowadays, the recruitment process is changing. The recruitment process was earlier limited to the job profile, as part of the job no additional questions were asked. When we hear about interviews today, they are much broader in scope. Before hiring a person onboard, companies try to extract required personal information.

Well, some people say that questions like hobbies, interests and marital status should not be asked as there are not relevant. Before hiring an employee, the employer wants to know the thought process of the person as interests of a person gives an idea to the employer. Sometimes, such questions are asked by the employer to make the interview feel comfortable through the interview process. Some employers, also have predecided mindsets regarding marital status, they think that if a person is married or about to get married then he/she might be looking for job stability. Employers try to align interests and hobbies with job profile and then evaluate how well a candidate can perform his key responsibilities.

Earlier people used to hesitate while sharing such information, but nowadays this has become part of the hiring process in various organizations. People are also adopting this process and they have also become responsive. But again, questions should be asked in such a manner that person should not feel offended. For example- while interviewing a married woman if the interviewer asks her about her pregnancy plans then this is a very personal thing. The candidate might not be comfortable in sharing this so such question should be taken care off.

To conclude, I would say that asking personal information is not irrelevant but it is important that only relevant information should be asked. Relevant information is the one which will directly or indirectly impact the working of the employee.
Though process, of people, is changing rapidly and soon all people will be comfortable with this process, if used properly.

Votes
Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, regarding, so, then, well, while, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24050632911 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81487653069 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53164556962 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 503.1 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.1116387821 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4117647059 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5882352941 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88235294118 7.06120827912 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.320010652259 0.244688304435 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0961912736579 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0505625986489 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165060783531 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.067678256738 0.056905535591 119% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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