Interviews are not a reliable method to select what people to hire

[Anna156]

Dear Luschen, you are kindly requested to review the following essay and point out the mistakes. Thanks in advance…

best regards,

Interviews are not a reliable method to select what people to hire and other methods are better. Do you agree or disagree?

Whether interviews are trusted measure for selection of right candidate is a heated topic of much debate. Some people assert that while interview a peron cannot be judged in all aspects demanded by the job. The proponents of this viewpoint posit that other methods are more appropriate to evaluate a person suitable for the hiring. However, despite of these arguments, as far as I am concerned interview is the best method to select right person to hire.

To begin with, interviewing people is the traditional method for selecting people to hire from centuries. It is indisputable that interviewing a candidate is an art and selection of questions plays major role in evaluation. Moreover, understanding the body language of candidates’ is also very important in process of interview. For instance, my brother , a HR consultant, has shared that while taking an interview for the post of production manager in a firm, there was a person who has mentioned a lot of experience in his resume’ but he was not confident enough in replying the questions related to his field. In addition, the candidates’ face expression were also opposite of what he was claiming, that’s why they have rejected that candidate. This example affirms that the right interviewing techniques are more important for selection of a person to hire.

Secondly, while opting the other methods of selection, the candidate may falsifies the expertise and achieve more points than other candidates who actually deserves the job.For example, in group discussion for selection of a candidate, a person may take more ideas from other participants and deliver them in a better manner without knowing much about the subject. However, in an interview, a candidate will only be discussing his own experience which will allow the interviewer to evaluate him in better manner.

To recapitulate, interviews are the best and most reliable way to select the right person to hire. The advancement in techniques of interview will allow the interviewer to excel his job.

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a social studies class

[Luschen]

Hi Anna, I know you are trying to be extra-polite, but I wanted to let you know that your request comes off as sounding a little bossy, sort of like I am your employee. I know you did not mean that, I am just letting you know for your own information.

I thought this essay was ok, but it did have some problems. I liked your overall structure and your detailed examples were relevant. Your writing was clear for the most part, though much of your essay sounded pretty unnatural. You had a lot of difficulty with your articles and had quite a few awkward sounding phrases. See my comments below about your first body paragraph. Overall, I would rate this a 3.5 out of 5.

@Anna156

Dear Luschen, you are kindly requested to review the following essay and point out the mistakes. Thanks in advance…

best regards,

Interviews are not a reliable method to select what people to hire and other methods are better. Do you agree or disagree?

Whether interviews are [a ]trusted measure for selection of right candidate {“to select the best candidate” is more natural} is a heated topic of much debate. Some people assert that while interview a peron cannot be judged in all aspects demanded by the job. {this sentence is wrong - maybe “assert that an interview cannot judge ass aspects demanded”} The proponents of this viewpoint posit that other methods are more appropriate to evaluate [in evaluating] a person suitable for the hiring. However, despite of these arguments, as far as I am concerned[, an] interview is the best method to select [the] right person to hire. {this introduction seemed overly formulaic and not very natural-sounding}

To begin with, interviewing people is the traditional method[ used for centuries] for selecting people to hire from centuries. {before it sounded like you were somehow getting the candidates from centuries} It is indisputable that interviewing a candidate is an art and [the] selection of questions plays [a ]major role in evaluation. Moreover, understanding the body language of candidates’ is also very important in [the] process of interview.{“of the interview” or “process of interviewing”} For instance, my brother , a HR consultant, has shared that while taking[conducting] an interview for the post of production manager in a firm, there was a person who ha[d ] mentioned a lot of experience in his resume’ but he was not confident enough in replying [to] the questions related to his field. In addition, the candidates’ fac[ial] expression[s ] were also opposite of what he was claiming[;] that’s {avoid contractions} why they have rejected that candidate. This example affirms that the right interviewing techniques are more important {“more” is a bit odd here - more than what?} for selection of a person to hire. {This paragraph is not that convincing to me. It seems like the skill and judgement involved in interviews would make them more challenging and thus less reliable}

Secondly, while opting [for] the other methods of selection, the candidate may falsif[y ] the[ir] expertise and achieve more points than other candidates who actually deserves[deserve] the job. {this sentence makes it sound like it is the candidate who is making the decision to opt out of the interview} For example, in group discussion for selection of a candidate, a person may take more ideas from other participants and deliver them in a better manner without knowing much about the subject. However, in an [a one-on-one] interview, {a group discussion is still sort of an interview, so this differentiates them better} a candidate will only be discussing his own experience[,] which will allow the interviewer to evaluate him in [a ]better manner.

To recapitulate, interviews are the best and most reliable way to select the right person to hire. The advancement in techniques of interview[ing] will allow the interviewer to excel his job. {This sentence would actually have been good to put in your body paragraph - stress that modern techniques and psychological studies mean that interviews today can be more effective than in the past, since they are based on modern research.}

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a social studies class