Make sure you balance any type of assessment against other information like performance, observation, and feedback such as references - because they don't always tell the whole story.

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Is there somewhat of a study or some type of assessment on the psychological costs on the soldiers to go into combat again and the possibility to do more combat?

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Dr. Mendelson warns that not all HR departments are equipped to handle this type of assessment, but firms such as his have training programs, which can take several months to complete.

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Your risk assessment has several key sections: business activities that bring risk, what type of risk (gifts, due diligence, etc), current mitigating controls, planned mitigating controls, and target dates.

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"But in order to deliver that type of system we need a tough-minded and rigorous assessment of how our skills policies need to change, and in reality that is not, I'm afraid, what we've had today, " he said.

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