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TOPIC: ARGUMENT241 - The following appeared in a memo at the XYZ company.

"When XYZ lays off employees, it pays Delany Personnel Firm to offer those employees assistance in creating resume’s 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."
WORDS: 419
TIME: 00:21:32
DATE: 2010/3/17 8:47:56

In this excerpt, speaker concludes that Delany is better than Walsh, in helping employees' assistance in creating resumes and developing interviewing skills who had be laid off by XYZ Company. In the basis of employees who uses Delany fine jobs much more quickly than the one who does not. This excerpt is logically flawed in several critical aspects.

First, the speaker provides no assurances that survey, which was done eight years ago, suggesting a correlation between the current situation and standards are statistically reliable. Perhaps eight years ago, that half of the laid-off workers could find the job was kind of “miracle" at that time. And with the changing of job market, becoming tougher and tougher, we may not hastily draw the conclusion that Delany is better than Walsh. It is entirely possible that the standard to lay off workers in current days is different from it was eight years age. That is to say, the company is not in good situation as before, so that the standard to lay -off employees is too smooth to lay off some well-done workers who may find other jobs just as they are leaving XYZ.

Furthermore, the argument relies on the assumption that without significant contact with the bigger staff and large number of branch office make Delany's efficiency very high. But the speaker provides no evidence that this is the case. Moreover, perhaps the staff who offer assistance is only a few to each laid-off workers, or the more branch offices are only for broaden the "Delany" brand's influence, or the service time for laid-off worker is limited, not effective enough for workers to absorb.

In addition, the excerpt assumes that the average month that laid-off workers take is shorter, under the assistance of Delany. Yet, without any evidence that this is the case, the speaker's point might be at least partially ineffective in counteracting that the time used to find a job is largely depend on marketing requirement and application's personality, not only resumes or interviewing skills. On the case, even though some workers would get job only after several months, the excerpt in itself lends little credible support to guarantee the new positions of the laid-off worker are suitable to them for developing better.

In sum, the speaker's standpoint of better services provided by Delany, not by Walsh, is ill conceived and poorly supported. To lend credibility to this standpoint, the speaker should provide evidence that the recently collected data reflect complete aspects of Delany's service, after making a comprehensive survey.