Tips while hiring IT consultant
In case, your company is looking for an IT consultant, there would be two main concerns which are: long term benefit vs upfront cost. Though most of companies are competent enough to pick right IT consultant but there are some mistakes that companies often make in haste.
Undoubtedly, IT consultant is not a full time on roll employee and most of companies fail to conduct an official interview of consultants. Carrying out an official interview round is recommended in case you don’t want to regret later on for hiring consultant which has anti-social behaviour or poor personal characteristics. The IT consultant whom you will hire will be communicating with several departments and employees. Hiring consultant with acrid personality will only bring down moral of your employees and many times making a dialogue with new consultant would become a burden for your employees.
Most of companies don’t sign confidentiality agreement with IT consultants they hire. Though chances are very slim that IT consultant would run off with your data, but it takes a minute to disclose your client’s information to your competitors and you could lose business worth millions. Thus, it is better to have a confidentiality agreement signed.
Another major mistake, often done by companies is not making time sensitive contractual agreement. The company from whom you will hire IT resource would have often multiple clients. Regardless of size of IT Company from whom you have hired IT consultant, it is better to have a time sensitive agreement which would state that consultant should pay onsite visit within the specific timeframe. But always remember, the timeline should be reasonable to other company as well as your company’s need.
Fourth common mistake done in IT consulting process is not forthcoming as one should be during assessing your company’s IT needs. If you won’t tell where and how much pain you are having to your physician, he won’t be able to give right medicine to you; the same applies to IT consultant while making an assessment of needs. You might miss critical solutions for the problems which are pain in your neck and don’t allow you to focus on your business primary goals and objectives.
Always remember while hiring any IT consultant, it is important that you are hiring a consultant from a reputable company providing you better cost/benefit analysis and it is equivalent to hire IT management who is going to work closely with departments and your employees.
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