Comments on: RFPs and Advertising Agencies: Breaking Up is Easy to Do. Part II http://blog.alstin.com/rfps-employment-brand The power of done.® Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Lavery http://blog.alstin.com/rfps-employment-brand/comment-page-1#comment-301 John Lavery Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:55:36 +0000 http://blog.alstin.com/?p=1395#comment-301 I guess I have been fortunate that I have only been through two RFPs as a recruiter in Healthcare. When I first started Alstin was the agency used by my employer. When I moved on I requested from my new employer to use Alstin as our agency which, thankfully, was approved. As the parent company for my facility acquired additional hospitals the new additions used different agencies causing us to go into the RFP process to arrive at one. Again thankfully, Alstin was chosen. The RFP process worked because only the three original vendor agencies were invited to participate and we weren't overwhelmed with presentations. Alstin was successful then and now because of the highest priority of personalized customer service, researching and knowing their clients. Organizations that want to bury themselves in huge RFPs really don't want to make decisions, more like they want to delay having to make a decision. If you want to move forward, get there first, be creative, learn how to max out opportuinities using Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In or whatever you need to follow Tony's suggestions and keep it simple. Not only will you have succes but you will enjoy doing it as well. I guess I have been fortunate that I have only been through two RFPs as a recruiter in Healthcare. When I first started Alstin was the agency used by my employer. When I moved on I requested from my new employer to use Alstin as our agency which, thankfully, was approved. As the parent company for my facility acquired additional hospitals the new additions used different agencies causing us to go into the RFP process to arrive at one. Again thankfully, Alstin was chosen.

The RFP process worked because only the three original vendor agencies were invited to participate and we weren’t overwhelmed with presentations. Alstin was successful then and now because of the highest priority of personalized customer service, researching and knowing their clients.

Organizations that want to bury themselves in huge RFPs really don’t want to make decisions, more like they want to delay having to make a decision.

If you want to move forward, get there first, be creative, learn how to max out opportuinities using Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In or whatever you need to follow Tony’s suggestions and keep it simple. Not only will you have succes but you will enjoy doing it as well.

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