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.

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.

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 : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 41.998997996 62% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1347.0 1615.20841683 83% => OK
No of words: 258.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22093023256 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75142751025 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 176.041082164 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538759689922 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 506.74238477 81% => 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: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.6494411325 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2142857143 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4285714286 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.310411940703 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101298316221 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540187625274 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18865055571 0.151304729494 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631322298021 0.056905535591 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
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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