tracyyahoo wrote:The interview is an essential part of a successful hiring program because, with it, job applicants who have personalities that are unsuited to the requirements of the job will be eliminated from consideration.
The argument above logically depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A) A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews.
(B) The interview is a more important part of a successful hiring program than is the development of a job description.
(C) Interviewers can accurately identify applicants whose personalities are unsuited to the requirements of the job.
(D) The only purpose of an interview is to evaluate whether job applicants' personalities are suited to the requirements of the job.
(E) The fit of job applicants' personalities to the requirements of the job was once the most important factor in making hiring decisions



I don't understand OA is C, why A wrong???

A says "A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews", if negate (a) A hiring program will be successful if it won't includes interviews.

This is totally wrong and weaken the argument I think... Pls explain, am I missing soemthing here??

parul9 wrote:

tracyyahoo wrote:The interview is an essential part of a successful hiring program because, with it, job applicants who have personalities that are unsuited to the requirements of the job will be eliminated from consideration.
The argument above logically depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A) A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews.
(B) The interview is a more important part of a successful hiring program than is the development of a job description.
(C) Interviewers can accurately identify applicants whose personalities are unsuited to the requirements of the job.
(D) The only purpose of an interview is to evaluate whether job applicants' personalities are suited to the requirements of the job.
(E) The fit of job applicants' personalities to the requirements of the job was once the most important factor in making hiring decisions



I don't understand OA is C, why A wrong???

A says "A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews", if negate (a) A hiring program will be successful if it won't includes interviews.

This is totally wrong and weaken the argument I think... Pls explain, am I missing soemthing here??

I am not an instructor. But here are my two cents.

The passage says at the start itself:
"The interview is an essential part of a successful hiring program"

If we look at option A, it goes - "A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews."
This would mean that if a hiring program has interviews it is successful. But as per the sentence in the passage (written above), even if there is an interview done during hiring, there could be other factors that could fail the hiring program, because interview is only a "part" (albeit essential) of hiring process.
So, A is clearly not the answer choice.

C is a clear assumption. Because the passage justifies the interviews stating that they would help because "job applicants who have personalities that are unsuited to the requirements of the job will be eliminated from consideration." This is only possible if the person who is taking the interview is capable of making this judgement correctly.

Hope this helps you!

tracyyahoo wrote:But negate A it is opposite to the common sense, I think.
It would be like"a hiring program will be successful if it doesn't include interview", How can an interview be successful without interview?? It should be wrong, right?