Personal Factors

These criteria are important if you’re the person who has to carry out the engagement. If you’re charged only with the selection process, then your decision should reflect the needs of future stakeholders, assuming they can be reasonably assessed.

Personal factors such as your own geographic preferences, risk tolerance, knowledge of foreign languages, and even your career aspirations count here. Depending on your position within the organization and role in the engagement, these factors might be more important than some of the others.

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