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Best Practices When Hiring Qualified Subcontractors: Six Tips for Small Contractors to Use For Evaluating Subcontractors

Hiring reputable and dependable subcontractors can be a challenge, but it is a challenge that can easily be met. Be selective, define the scope of work, prequalify the subcontractor, get to know the sub’s team and learn from experience.
By Danielle Levine
May 30, 2017
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by Danielle Levine
Danielle Levine works in Content Management and Marketing for Appfluence. In her role, she studies a variety of management techniques and industry best practices in order to present actionable strategies to teams all across the world. She strives to deliver content that helps individuals, leaders and businesses run their organizations efficiently. Appfluence builds Priority Matrix, a software solution that helps teams collaborate more effectively by providing a platform that centralizes project documents, action items, and communication all in one place.

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