Personally I need that little blue A, that referral from the Department of Public Health, in the window as a reassurance that I won't be spending the night in the bathroom.If they boast of a thousand employees, huge customers and a big shiny office building, think of the hourly rates they'll have to charge you to maintain all that overhead.In addition to checking basic references, here are more areas to investigate to ensure their competency:

Their response should give you an idea of their level of competence with your computer, server, email, financial or accounting platforms.When that particular line of communication to the Wall Street goes down the last thing you want is your IT guy scratching his head and searching Google for error codes.At the end of each shift, staff would call into a special voicemail-only number and leave the sales numbers.

How long can you afford to be down while data is being recovered? In the event of a fire, flood or theft of your computers, how will you get that backed up data onto computers and get your business back up and running?As a staffing organization the Internet was a key tool to find candidates for their customers, to send and receive emails, post positions to the job board on their internally hosted web site and more. No one at the company transferred the existing Internet service to the new office.