How to Select an IT Professional

Unsure about who you want to hire for your I.T. project or company?

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Understanding the limits or scope of your project, access to IT professional help wanted ads or recruiting firms.

1. 1. Identify the costs and benefits of contracting or hiring a new I.T. professional or enough I.T. professionals to do your work. Understand that an H.R. Manager needs to have the info and your input into determining whether existing staff often pigeon holed by what their s/w or h/w experience is to see the big picture effectively, i.e., they do not generally or always if ever know what the project will do to your bottom line however it will know what they can or cannot do and ultimately cost..
2. 2. Identify how much hardware and maintenance is going to be associated with your project and determine if you have to buy additional software and hardware to integrate existing programs and applications with your current software and hardware; if you do not calculate such costs what will happen is that your expected additional revenue or cost savings will be offset somewhat if not greatly by these
   considerations- example if your IT solution is too complex it'll
   cost a lot to debug routine especially if it net centric where you have a host of issues that cost a lot in IT security to defend..
3. 3. Once you calculate what you need and what kind of budget you have
   to start up understand that the # of persons hired depends on their skills and the type of environment they've worked in before - generally speaking the numbers of experts in the area generally do not amount to the previous skill level if there are too many good cooks in the kitchen, i.e. one good programmer with 2 experienced and lots of newbies will do better than 3 specialists or sme's because they're set in their ways as it were- consider who has the bird's eye view of what your goal is with what you want to do, add efficiencies or functionalities, whether they're real and if so whether your IT manager understands this and can honestly do what you want to- an enterprise architect is the person who has the idea of what current software can and cant do and what developed s/w could or couldn't do - he can assist you in developing the s/w development tool/s schedules and hw requirements

Tips & Warnings

• 4. Select staff based on the requirements you and your IT manager have devised
• 5. Train staff on the new tools and processes create an excitement to a new and more exciting way of doing their business.