STEP # 1 Identifying Candidates

• Input from peers & colleagues
  
   
• Query other organizations
  
   
• Contact professional & trade organizations
  
   
• Advertisements

STEP # 2 Invite Candidates To Submit Application
 

• Develop your own application
  
   
• Encourage Curriculum Vitae attachment
  
   
• Provides for uniformity in comparison
  
   
• May discourage unqualified
  
   
• Application may itself disqualify

STEP # 3 Evaluate Application
 

• Quality of completion / presentation
  
   
• Compare credentials
  
   
• Compare client's responses following verification

STEP # 4 Interview Top 2 Candidates
 

• Ideally, interview in person
  
   
• Costs to be negotiated
  
   
• Encourage candidate to bring sample of work
  
   
• Interview should be preceded with tour
  
   
• Teleconference is alternative, but less acceptable
  
   
• Probe for philosophical orientation

STEP # 5 Negotiate For Agreement / Final Selection - Negotiate with first choice

• Fee based on scope of work
  
   
• Expenses
  
   
• Methodology
  
   
• Timing
  
  
  

  If negotiation is unsatisfactory, move to second choice.

  
  
  

  Successful negotiation results in selection.

  
  

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