Placing college students into federal internships should help increase agency productivity. When former interns are hired into permanent agency jobs, they can be integrated into their roles more quickly than their peers who have not been interns. As permanent employees, former interns should be able to leverage knowledge gained during their federal internships. In addition, former interns may use relationships built during internships to help them learn their new roles. Which of the following assumptions underlies the above argument? During their internships, interns provide critical mission support to federal agencies. Federal internship programs only provide value to certain agencies. Interns bring in knowledge from outside the government, thereby increasing agency productivity during their internships. Former interns apply for permanent roles that involve knowledge and people from their internships. Interns should be hired into permanent positions only after passing a rigorous evaluation process