Hire Technical Writer on contract basis

Whether your company writes the occasional request for purchase or uses them regularly as part of its purchasing strategy, you recognize the value of RFPs when it comes to defining the size, scope, and intention of IT projects.

Yet hiring a full-time RFP writer is generally a luxury befitting large enterprises that have the resources to support such specialized positions. In fact, these same companies also have specific infrastructure, such as databases, internal processes, and entire personnel teams, that exists solely for the creation and review of RFPs.

For small to medium-sized enterprises, it can be difficult to devote money and time not only to such infrastructure but even to one person whose primary responsibility is to write RFPs. However, this doesn't mean that you can't have an RFP writer on staff because if you play your cards right you can address other areas in addition to your RFP requirements.

Find The Right Stuff

An effective RFP writer understands the technologies up for purchase and has an intimate knowledge of the company's needs. Obviously, a new hire would require time to get up to speed on those needs, but prior experience with the technologies at hand is crucial for the writer to understand how to best build an effective RFP.

Finding IT professionals who specialize in certain technologies is one thing, but finding IT writers with specialties is another, especially if you need someone who happens to excel at RFP writing. But like good technical writers, RFP writers should be able to quickly learn technologies, so considering a writer with broad, nonspecific IT knowledge could be a safe choice (if not your only choice).

Unlike the technical writer who typically stays tuned to a particular company product or process, the RFP writer often maintains current, accurate knowledge on all company objectives, technologies, and practices. Without this knowledge the challenge of developing effective RFPs quickly grows monumental because the purchasing process can easily entail and eventually affect wide-reaching areas of any company.

Therefore, the ideal RFP writer must have the ability to communicate with all company departments to properly assess their requirements. This communication can include face-to-face interviewing, creation and maintenance of questionnaires, and other tools that can deliver targeted evaluation. The RFP writer must be able to not only identify aspects of the company that could present challenges to technologies offered by vendors, but he must also assess and define those challenges in clear, precise terminology that lets vendors accurately address any demands.

Writers With Multiple Hats

Justifying a dedicated RFP writer position is tricky but not impossible. If you're looking to fill a technical position, you might discover applicants who have experience in RFP writing, so you could kill two birds with one stone. However, you'll need to dig deeply to determine exactly how well that person can craft an RFP.

Full-time RFP writers can generally handle other tasks, as well. Because they must be keenly aware of company practices, technologies, vendors, and the industry as a whole, these writers can provide insight for strategic development. Also, some RFP writers have extensive backgrounds in communications and marketing, which may be handy when creating new advertising and marketing materials.

An RFP writer's skills can also easily translate to other writing tasks, including technical writing and in-house communications. RFP writers can also contribute to general editing and review processes, since they should already have those refined talents to create high-quality RFPs.

The wide-ranging abilities necessary for the RFP process can allow for an employee who stays busy between RFPs. But whether you seek a dedicated writer or a technical worker who can also write RFPs, thoroughly research your requirements for the position so you can find just the person you need.


Defining An RFP Writer's Skills

Although RFPs can vary immensely depending on the technologies, the size of the company or department, and the project itself, an RFP writer should have several key skills to effectively handle the task.

Demonstrated experience writing RFPs or similar proposals in IT environments
Extensive written, oral, and interpersonal communication abilities
Strong project management capabilities
Familiarity with technologies involved in project(s)
Ability to work with teams of IT professionals
Proficiency with software required to create and maintain RFPs
Experience working under strict deadlines

I need an online Writer who is more than a Writer! What do I need to look out for while hiring a pro in Writing?
Tools by itself can hardly deliver the business oriented results you would desire. To get the best out of an online Writer make sure,

• He/She has at least 2 years Writing experience
• He/She has 1-2 years Writing experience or schooling (at least some object oriented coding experience) 
• He/She is creative, open-minded and able to add her creativity to make the project better
• You see her portfolio of various Articales on the web

When you're opting to hire skilled Writers from a development firm, there are certain things you need to keep in mind. A crucial aspect to look for is the quality standard that the company adopts for their processes and employees. Usually, development companies have their own coding standards defined by a governing body in their nation. But if you would want the team to follow the standards prescribed by you, it can work that way as well.

How much would I save if I hire skilled online Writers from Experts From India?
Experts From India Writer are not freelancers; instead they are employees of Experts From India who will work only on your project. You pay for the work they do and that's it! We'll take care of their work stations, salary and related issues etc.

All our online Writers have extensive industry experience and are well-versed in many aspects of Writing. They are good communicators that have showed consistency in understanding client requirements and applying their technical, analytical and creative skills to come up with business-oriented solutions not just technological solutions.

When it comes to objective planning, Experts From India writers have always displayed excellent entrepreneurial skills and along with their real hands-on writing experience they've impacted many clients' business bottomline. They're bright, energetic types who keep the organization growing.

What are the basis of your pricing? Can you give me examples?
Experts From India offers a monthly rate card for India writers who'll work only on your project and complete the tasks in stipulated time. Hiring writers on full-time basis is highly flexible as in it can follow any development life cycle. You'll be provided with a competent Project / IT manager on his side and your involvement is high. This ensures that your outsourcing venture is highly successful and meets all your business objectives.

This is a least cost option hence you'll have budget predictability and IP ownership. Your Experts From India IT team is highly flexible i.e. they can start with any level of expertise on the application. This places a high amount of control in your hands.

What is the difference in costs when suppose I hire a programmer from India as compared to the US?
We have a lot of positions/departments involved in the application development. You could work with a single programmer on all facets, including project design, choosing the right database, testing and fixes. One programmer in the US is currently paid about $80,000/year.

How will working with Experts From India be cheaper?
While it's true that a talented programmer in the US will be in the range mentioned, the actual cost to company for every employee is substantially more. In addition to the salary, every company needs to make other statutory payments for each employee. In addition, for each role, there will be other infrastructure costs such as hardware, software, utility and space costs that get added as overheads.

Thus for a programmer who earns an annual salary of $80,000 the total cost to the company is in excess of $100,000.

In the case of our team, you will not require all services on a continuous basis. In a typical project, the analysis, architecture and design takes up approximately 15% of the time in terms of effort and costs approximately 20% of the total cost, project management takes up approximately 20% of effort and 28% of cost, and development and testing takes the remaining 65% effort and 52% of the cost.

On the whole, a 12 man month project that would take approximately a year for your programmer in the US (costing you about $100,000) can be completed in about 6 months by a team in India, and at an approximate total cost of $40,000.

At Experts From India you can choose to hire a single writer or a team depending on your requirements. Contact Us to work out the specific details of this arrangement.