The following appeared in a memo at XYZ company.
"When XYZ lays off employees, it pays Delany Personnel Firm to offer those employees assistance in creating résumés and developing interviewing skills, if they so desire. Laid-off employees have benefited greatly from Delany's services: last year those who used Delany found jobs much more quickly than did those who did not. Recently, it has been proposed that we use the less expensive Walsh Personnel Firm in place of Delany. This would be a mistake because eight years ago, when XYZ was using Walsh, only half of the workers we laid off at that time found jobs within a year. Moreover, Delany is clearly superior, as evidenced by its bigger staff and larger number of branch offices. After all, last year Delany's clients took an average of six months to find jobs, whereas Walsh's clients took nine."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Continuing hiring the services of Delany Personnel could be a good choice for the XYZ Company, but the author makes some unsubstantiated assumptions regarding the superiority of the work done by Delany Personnel Firm to Walsh's work. Based on these assumptions, the author makes his/her bold proposal not to change of Personnel Firm. Though this proposal is thought to the laid-off employees get work, this could not achieve that goal and even make them lose some works as well as not allow the enterprise save money.
The author's first mistake is to assume that by using Walsh Personnel Firm a le...
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