Human resources consultancies have become invaluable to businesses looking for improvements and efficiencies in their operations. This course, Choosing a human resources consultant, explores the issues surrounding how you might go about selecting and using a consultant, examining the risks involved in the venture, fitting the consultant to the task, setting fees and evaluating work. If you are in business and looking to hire a consultant, are a consultant yourself or are studying business at masters level, this course will be useful to you.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• Appreciate the characteristics of consultancy when viewed as a service offered for sale
• As client, identify suitable contexts for using consultants
• As client, identify, gather information on, and evaluate the suitability of competing consultants.