College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
College is often seen as a ticket to higher quality of life and better paying jobs. However, most college graduates often face the harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment upon graduation. This could be corrected if students select their major based on the availability of jobs in the market. While this would solve the issue of high unemployment rates among college graduates, it is not a reliable method of employment prediction and would also lead to other concomitant issues in innovation. Hence, I partially disagree that college students should choose their fields of study based on availability of jobs, and believe that a balance of employability and interest must be taken into account during selection.
If college graduates selected their majors based on the availability of jobs, it would lead to a saturation in the field with the most jobs available, and decrease cross-disciplinary innovation. Currently, the most popular field is the Information Technology sector. This sector focuses on the innovations of Computer Science (CS). One such innovation in this field is the development of Drone technology. Drones are made using flight stabilization and field mapping CS algorithms, and the aerodynamic designs based on Mechanical engineering. There are much fewer jobs available in the Mechanical engineering sector as compared to Information Technology. However, it is due to the contribution of Mechanical Engineers that society can now experience the fruits of innovation that is Drone technology. This was developed through the hard work of engineers in both the Mechanical and Computer Science fields. Hence, if students were to choose their majors based on simply availability of jobs, we may not now have drone technology, which is developed in partnership with other sectors, which is being used to save lives.
Apart from drone technology, another popular technology based on CS is Data Analytics. Graduates from this field are now more in demand than even before. This reflects a changing trend of job demand by sector often seen across history. Data Science, a field that helps companies navigate the millions of terabytes of user data to provide an ideal customer experience, was not as popular 10 years as it is now. If back then, college students had not specialized in Data Science, we may not have the innovation of data analytics now which is the driver of the availability of jobs in this field. This serves as the perfect example of how trends in the job market may vary every few years. Hence, it is not reliable to select a college major based on the current availability of jobs as the market may change in a few years rendering what was thought to be a highly demanded course to be neglected entirely, or an uncommon path to become the most popular field.
The main reason why college students might be persuaded to select their fields of study based on availability of jobs is to mitigate the unemployment amongst college graduates. However, this only works to solve unemployment in the short term. For example, Computer Science (CS) is a popular field right now and offers plenty of jobs. If more students were to take CS as their major, it is true that these jobs will be filled quickly. Although, this will certainly serve to reduce unemployment rates in the short term, the market will auto correct itself. When more students transition to a CS major by leaving their fields of study in, for example, Architecture, Design, or Medicine, the supply of labor in those fields will decrease, result in an increase in availability of jobs in those sectors, while decreasing the availability of jobs in CS. Thus, CS graduates will be likely to end up without jobs, while the market searches for Architecture and Design graduates. Ultimately, the unemployment rate reduced by the decision to pursue availability of jobs in the market when selecting the major will return in the long term.
Selecting the college major based on the availability of jobs may seem like a prudent decision to reduce unemployment in the short term, but this unemployment always returns as the market auto adjusts itself. In addition, making the decision based on this criterion alone may lead to poorer innovation in other fields. Finally it is not a reliable method of major selection as the trends in the job market are fickle. College majors should not be selected based on the availability of jobs alone, but should be a combination of employability as well as personal interest. This allows students to innovate in their fields of interest and navigate any personal difficulties that may arise from unemployment.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 319, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...d to poorer innovation in other fields. Finally it is not a reliable method of major se...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, apart from, for example, in addition, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 116.0 58.6224719101 198% => OK
Nominalization: 38.0 12.9106741573 294% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3875.0 2235.4752809 173% => OK
No of words: 764.0 442.535393258 173% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0719895288 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.25742807104 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91774419759 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.399214659686 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1242.0 704.065955056 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6398676929 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.970588235 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4705882353 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94117647059 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270305009914 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0793549133988 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728589462876 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17560737108 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195147601179 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 319, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...d to poorer innovation in other fields. Finally it is not a reliable method of major se...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, apart from, for example, in addition, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 116.0 58.6224719101 198% => OK
Nominalization: 38.0 12.9106741573 294% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3875.0 2235.4752809 173% => OK
No of words: 764.0 442.535393258 173% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0719895288 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.25742807104 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91774419759 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.399214659686 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1242.0 704.065955056 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6398676929 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.970588235 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4705882353 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94117647059 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270305009914 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0793549133988 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728589462876 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17560737108 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195147601179 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.