For your business to be the best that it can be, you want to know that your business consultant is going to have your business best interests at heart.
You want to know that you can count on them not to reveal secrets about your business and that everything that you talk about is going to remain confidential.
One of the common misconceptions about letters of confidentiality is that they should only be used when the business consultant is going to be with your company for a long time, and not for short term employees.
A letter of confidentiality should be used anytime when you are disclosing important information about your company to someone, such as your trade secrets or the amount of money that you make.
Another common misconception is that every consultant that you hire is going to go out and reveal the secrets of your company to every person on the street.
Chances are that they wont, but they might say something in passing. If they have signed a letter of confidentiality, they are going to think twice about what they say.
One other thing to ask a consultant that you are interviewing is if they will continue to work for your...