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Hire Safely at Speed: A Complete Checklist for Staff Augmentation

Make your next hire fast and compliant.

This checklist helps VPs and Directors of Engineering evaluate staff augmentation vendors across risk, security, delivery, and cost, all in one page.

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Hiring fast is easy. Hiring safely is the real challenge.

In today’s market, you can fill a seat in days, but one wrong partner can expose your company to co-employment risk, data leaks, or delivery failures.

This checklist distills the four critical lenses every decision-maker must evaluate before signing a staff augmentation deal:

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Legal & People Risk

Avoid joint-employer exposure and classification errors.

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Privacy & Security

Ensure data protection and compliance across jurisdictions.

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Delivery & Continuity

Guarantee quality, SLAs, and reliable team scaling

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Commercial Value

Benchmark transparency and contract fairness

Designed to be completed in 10 minutes, this guide enables you to compare vendors side by side and make informed decisions with confidence.

You'll learn how to:

→Run a defensible, fast vendor comparison HR and Legal can both sign off on.
→Apply a traffic-light scoring system to quantify vendor risk and readiness.
→ Identify must-have clauses and red flags before shortlisting partners.
→ Secure data, define supervision lines, and comply with new FTC and HIPAA rules.
→ Use a three-step flow (Prepare, Compare, Decide) to make hiring faster and safer.

Inside the checklist:

A single-page matrix that scores vendors across the four dimensions of performance and compliance

Legal & People Risk

Co-employment, classification, and EEO screening

Privacy & Security

CPRA, HIPAA, and FTC Safeguards alignment

Delivery & Continuity

Role vetting, SLAs, and retention strategies

Commercial Value

Transparent pricing and exit flexibility

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The wrong partner costs more than a delayed project

A misaligned vendor can create co-employment liabilities, data exposure, or poor delivery that sets teams back months.

This checklist ensures you evaluate staff augmentation options with the same rigor as financial or security decisions, before the first contract is signed.

Download the checklist and run your next vendor comparison in under 10 minutes.

Designed for engineering leaders — easy to use, ready today.

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