It Is Unfair for Tertiary Institutions and Future Employers to Consider Community Service as a Criteria for Admission and Employment. What Are Your Views?

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There is a modern day emphasis on community service and its importance in society, from how it benefits students, the unfortunate and society at large. We can easily see how community service has entered the lives of students and how it affects them during their scholarship interviews, like the President’s Scholarship in Singapore. However, is it fair to consider it in a job interview? Is there a need for community service to be taken into account? Although community service has its ups and downs, it is not justifiable to use community service to consider one’s employment in most cases. Community service is meant to voluntary work done out of the kindness of one’s heart to honestly give back to society by helping those in need. Although there is a need for more emphasis to be placed on the idea of service learning, there is should be not be emphasis on community service beyond it being a moral obligation. By making job interviews consider community service, there would be an excessive amount of emphasis on it as it would force all employees to be forced to do community service. The issue is that by placing such an emphasis would compel people to do community service but not out of the goodness of their heart, merely because they have no other choice if they wish to get employed in the tertiary institution. Thereby, crushing the whole meaning of community service as it would inherently destroy the passion and joy found in community service as volunteers are merely there because they have no other choice. It would degrade the quality of community service done as volunteers only do it because they are forced to by their need for a job. Thus, making the whole concept of community service flawed because it becomes almost impossible to judge and see who are actually helping society purely for the joy and happiness of helping others. It is the same as wanting to see who

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