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When are you ready to hire an employee?

It may be time to hire an employee for your independent consultancy to help you balance your time between technical work, rooting out new contracts, and day-to-day business chores.

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Answer these five questions before choosing a business partner

Consultants who go it alone take on added risk when the market for their services changes or the economy sours. To help protect themselves, many consultants partner with another business. Consider five questions when making such a move.

Banking

Should IT consultants incorporate?

A recent poll in IT Consultant Republic showed that while the largest percentage of respondents said that their business was a sole proprietorship, a sizable number have incorporated their firms. What are the advantages of this designation?

Determining how and when to renew support contracts can be tedious and time-consuming. Our vendor contract renewal planner will help you schedule support renewals and budget the related costs. From the planner: Some companies schedule their support contract renewals to take effect all at once, such as on January 1. This provides a convenient renewal ...

Without appropriate access management controls, businesses are at significant risk from the loss or theft of both physical and digital assets. Access management controls establish who is allowed the appropriate level of access in order to do their jobs, while reducing the potential for damage or harm to the company. The purpose of this policy ...

IT pros typically have access to company servers, network devices and data so they can perform their jobs. However, that access entails risk, including exposure of confidential information and interruption in essential business services. This policy from TechRepublic Premium offers guidelines for governing access to critical systems and confidential data. From the policy: SUMMARY IT ...

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When are you ready to hire an employee?

Answer these five questions before choosing a business partner

Should IT consultants incorporate?

Vendor contract renewal planner

Access management policy

IT staff systems and data access policy

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