Most recruiters usually administer tests to analyze personality and assess certain skills, which are relative to those interviewed for a job.

These skills can be argumentation, synthesis, coherence, grammar or assessing whether the candidate has any fluency in Portuguese. See our tips on writing an essay.

WHAT THIS WORDING SHOULD LOOK LIKE

Many people are terrified of having to write an essay at a job interview. A lack of knowledge of the proposed topic or the structure of the essay can lead to nervousness or pressure at that moment. Pay attention to the topic. It's very common for recruiters to set out a path for you to follow. If it's up to you, elaborate something related to the professional.

Make the most of what you have learned and talk about something related to your profession or current affairs. Set up a structure with a title, which should be related to the central theme of this essay, with an introduction that is objective so that the reader is led to the main subject of this text. Start your development with your arguments and ideas.

In developing this essay, put the subject into context and defend your thesis. Then end the conclusion with a summary of what has been discussed, without writing a complicated text with difficult words and making it confusing to read. Set out your arguments and opinions in a straightforward order, respecting the sequence of this information.

Make your point of view clear and avoid controversial or radical topics. Vary your vocabulary, without repeating words, so that the reading isn't tiring or unpleasant and shows a lack of vocabulary. Use a variety of words and synonyms when writing. No slang in this essay and avoid foreign words or abbreviations.

A DISSERTATION

The essay that you may be asked to write at a job interview is a textual way of explaining or organizing all your ideas, clearly and objectively, with arguments, facts and data to defend a central idea. To write an essay is to present your ideas. Read this essay very carefully and highlight the main points of the basic text. Put down on paper everything that comes to mind about the topic.

Organize your ideas so that you can draw up the outline for your essay. Define your thesis, which should be in line with the central theme, and discuss what you think about it. Each paragraph of this development should present one or two data arguments that are related to each other and to what has been said previously, always putting the central idea into context. At the end of this essay, summarize everything that has been presented throughout what has been developed in this dissertation and in most cases, this conclusion can be made with a paragraph that presents a solution to the problem that has been debated throughout this text. This essay can be between 20 and 30 lines long, with a short, eye-catching title. Follow our tips for a good essay.