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. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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ast few decades, the work-culture has started to transform into a more employee-centric structure. Nowadays, the employers along with the job-related info are
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interested in knowing the personal details of the candidate.
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, few employees are in favour of
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transition and others feel a little uncomfortable in sharing their private details with the owner. Let us examine both the views in the forth-coming paragraphs and
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land on a conclusion. On one hand, many of the candidates feel hesitant in sharing their personal details like hobbies, married or single with their employer as they feel that it might lead them to get judged by their peer in future.
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, most of the women prefer not to disclose about their children, in a job interview as they can be judged on their capabilities of performing their work. Workplace discrimination is
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another reason why the job-seeker avoids to share their background advice with the company.
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, many times, the team leaders prefer to assign the projects to someone who is from the same home-town as that of the leader.
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, a lot of individuals prefer not to share their personal information with their employers.
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, there are a huge number of the working population, which agrees with the idea of sharing their private material like hobbies, interest, married or single, etc. with their management, reason being, it will increase the sense of belongingness with the company. They believe that if the company knows about their marital status or about the family, it will tailor the HR policies as per them. To illustrate, if the organization knows about someone's wedding anniversary date, it will automatically assign a personal leave to them.
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, sharing personal details like hobbies or interest with the firm
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informs it about the social interest of the workers and helps the organization plan any social event in the same manner. To explain it better, if the firm knows that 80% of the employees like football, they can plan a football tournament in their
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social event. To conclude, I concur with the thought that it is relevant and useful for the work-seeker to share their personal data with the employer so that organisation can better understand both professional as well as personal growth needs of its' employees.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • job application
  • personal information
  • hobbies and interests
  • marital status
  • relevant
  • useful
  • privacy
  • assessing candidates
  • qualifications
  • experience
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