Over 80% of employers say that researching a job candidates backgroun

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Over 80% of employers say that researching a job candidate’s background is of extreme importance when hiring for new positions. But of those employers, only one quarter invest in third-party background check services, while the remainder rely solely on references that the candidates themselves chose and submitted. Clearly most employers do not value an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background.

Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

A. Third-party background check services do not include information from a candidate’s self-selected references as part of their research.
B. A candidate’s self-selected references sometimes provide incomplete or untrue information regarding their experience with a candidate.
C. Third-party background check services are affordable for all employers.
D. An employer interested in an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background will use a third-party background check service.
E. The job interview process is not sufficient to determine whether a candidate is qualified for a particular position.

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Drwazzz · Answer

IMO- B
If we negate it, the conclusion falls apart.

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sood1596 · Answer

Why is the answer D and not B

Please share the official answer or if someone could explain.

kush4 · Answer

I have a question D sounds good but how can we negate the option D ?
An employer unterested in an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background will use a third-party background check service.
OR
An employer interested in an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background will use not use a third-party background check service.

bhavanashroff · Answer

I have the same question regarding this question

If we negate the answer choice, the argument does not seem to fall apart.

Flower_Child · Answer

kush4  and  bhavanashroff

First premise : "Researching a job candidate’s background is of extreme importance"
Second Premise : " Only one quarter invest in third-party background check services, while the remainder rely  solely  on references " . Note here, the author does not question the credibility of the references. He just points out a fact that some employers do not utilize a process.
Conclusion : "Clearly  most  employers do not value an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background"

The imp thing is to identify the missing link between the premise and the conclusion. The premise says that most employers do not utilize one practice and the author concludes that most employers do not value impartial assessment. There is no given relationship that suggests what leads to impartial assessment. We need an option that links the premise with the conclusion.

"B. A candidate’s self-selected references sometimes provide incomplete or untrue information regarding their experience with a candidate."
This still does not provide any information about what leads to impartial assessment.
Negating the option : A candidate’s self-selected references none of the times provide incomplete or untrue information. That is, the references provide correct inf all the time.
Now can the conlcusion still holds true? Yes it can.We should not assume that credible references means impartial assessment. There could be any no of factors that lead to impartial assessment. Because there is no relationship mentioned between credibility of references and impartial assessment this is not an assumption required for conlcusion to hold true.

"D. An employer interested in an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background will use a third-party background check service."
This fills that missing gap. If it is true that impartial assessment of a candidate’s background can only be done using third-party background check service, then the author can conclude that since most employers don't use a third-party background check service, most employers do not value an impartial assessment.
We can double check by negating the choice : An employer interested in an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background WILL NOT use a third-party background check service.
This breaks the conclusion as it is already given that 3/4th of employers don't use third-party background check service and thus we can say that most( greater than 50%) do value an impartial assessment of a candidate’s background.

Bunuel · Answer

VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:

Pay close attention to the precision in language of the conclusion: most employers do not value an impartial assessment. The word "impartial" is important here, as you will see when you assess tempting trap answer choice B.

As always with challenging Assumption questions, it is important to note the specificity in the conclusion as noted above, and to employ the Assumption Negation Technique to assess answer choices. With choice A, for example, if you negate it you will see that "Third-party services do include information from self-selected references as part of their research." You should see that this doesn't impact the conclusion: for one, you don't know that that information is necessarily not impartial, and secondly you don't know what other information is included that might be impartial.

With B, the negated answer is that "self-selected references NEVER provide incomplete or untrue information regarding their experience with a candidate." Note here - that does not necessarily mean that the assessment is impartial, as the candidate may have only selected people who had great experiences with them. The negated answer does not directly attack the conclusion, so B is tempting but incorrect.

Choice C showcases how rarely a word like "all" is part of a necessary assumption: suppose that the negated choice were true and these services were not affordable for all employers. That still leaves a lot of room for most employers to afford them, and with such a small percentage using them the conclusion would be true.

Choice D is correct. If it is negated, you have "An employer interested in an impartial assessment will NOT use a third-party service." This cripples the argument, which is built on the premise that most companies do not use third-party services, therefore they do not value an impartial assessment. A negated choice D invalidates the very premise upon which the conclusion is built, so D is correct.

And choice E is out of scope of the conclusion: whether a candidate is qualified or not is not the same as valuing an impartial assessment of a candidate's background.

rahul5657 · Answer

A. Incorrect. This might be true, but it doesn't directly affect the conclusion. Whether third-party services use self-selected references or not doesn’t address why employers don’t value impartiality.

B. Incorrect. While this may be true, it isn’t required for the argument. The argument is about whether employers value impartiality, not about the reliability of self-selected references.

C.Incorrect. This might explain why employers do or don’t use third-party services, but the argument isn’t about affordability. The conclusion is about valuing impartiality.

D. Correct. The conclusion that most employers don’t value impartiality assumes that using a third-party service equates to valuing impartiality. Without this assumption, the conclusion doesn’t hold.

E. Incorrect. The sufficiency of the interview process isn’t relevant to the argument about impartiality in background research.

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