17th May 2006, 02:42 PM
Well, there are good consultants and bad consultants - just as there are good and bad field archaeologists.
Quality control in our organisation happens at a number of levels:
1 - we usually only recruit experienced people. We do have one person (out of 11 archaeologists) that we took on as a new graduate, but his role is to assist the more experienced staff.
2 - we provide a lot of in-house training and coaching for all staff.
3 - no report, correspondence or anything else goes out of our organisation without checking and sign-off by a more senior/experienced member of staff than the originator.
4 - in addition to published guidelines, we have a range of internal methodological guidelines, check-lists etc.
5 - we operate a 3rd-party certified QA system.
We are an RAO and all our staff are IFA members at various levels, including 6 MIFA (I think), but we look at the experience and knowledge of the individual rather than the IFA grade, before we assign someone to a particular task.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
Quality control in our organisation happens at a number of levels:
1 - we usually only recruit experienced people. We do have one person (out of 11 archaeologists) that we took on as a new graduate, but his role is to assist the more experienced staff.
2 - we provide a lot of in-house training and coaching for all staff.
3 - no report, correspondence or anything else goes out of our organisation without checking and sign-off by a more senior/experienced member of staff than the originator.
4 - in addition to published guidelines, we have a range of internal methodological guidelines, check-lists etc.
5 - we operate a 3rd-party certified QA system.
We are an RAO and all our staff are IFA members at various levels, including 6 MIFA (I think), but we look at the experience and knowledge of the individual rather than the IFA grade, before we assign someone to a particular task.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished