Devin Hornick
Most boards spend more time selecting a conference room AV system than they do structuring a CIO search. It shows. Get the hire wrong and you’re looking at $500,000 in wasted comp, six months of organizational momentum gone, and whatever trust your IT team had left in executive leadership completely evaporated. Get it right and … Read more
Many lists miss the mark on payroll by focusing only on software. Payroll is about more than payments, as the Small Business Administration notes; it involves efficiently managing your team and operations as you grow. The best small business payroll solutions include: Smart Hiring: Attracting the right talent. Efficient Payroll Systems: Simplifying processes. Scalable Operations: … Read more
Reshoring in 2026: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back to the US Reshoring brought 244,000 manufacturing jobs back to the US in 2024, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s 2024 Annual Report. That pushed the cumulative total past 2 million since 2010. The facilities are getting funded. The construction is happening. The part that keeps stalling … Read more
A cloud engineer career path covers five distinct levels, starting at roughly $95,000 for junior roles and reaching well past $200,000 at the principal level, though most of the guides floating around online stop at “senior” and pretend the rest doesn’t exist. Most people know the first two rungs. Almost nobody talks about what happens … Read more
How to Build a Software Development Team from Scratch Building a software development team from scratch means choosing the right roles, hiring sequence, and team model before writing a single job description. Companies that get this wrong burn $50,000 or more in failed hires and missed deadlines before correcting course. We had a client last … Read more
What Is IT Outsourcing? Models, Costs and When to Use It IT outsourcing is contracting an external provider to handle technology functions your organization either can’t or chooses not to staff internally. The global market crossed $639 billion in 2026. Roughly half of all outsourced IT projects underperform or fail outright, depending on whose survey … Read more
New Grad Job Market 2026: Why Smart Employers Are Hiring Anyway By one measure the 2026 entry-level job market is the bleakest in nearly four decades, with new workforce entrants making up 13.3% of all unemployed Americans last July before settling at 10.6% by February, a number that still exceeds anything recorded during the Great … Read more
Workforce Planning: Complete Guide for Growing Companies Nine percent. That’s how many companies actually do strategic workforce planning according to McKinsey’s 2025 HR Monitor, which surveyed nearly 2,000 organizations. The other 91 percent are either running short-term operational planning or, honestly, just winging it. We see this constantly. A VP of Engineering walks into a … Read more
Hire a Kubernetes Engineer: Skills, Salary & Screening Hiring a Kubernetes engineer means finding someone who can manage containerized applications across clusters, handle infrastructure provisioning and networking, tune autoscaling, and respond to incidents when pods start failing at 2am on a Tuesday. Mid-level salaries sit between $120,000 and $160,000, with senior roles pushing past $190,000 … Read more
Hire a Data Analyst: What It Actually Costs and How to Screen the Right One Hiring a data analyst in 2026 means budgeting $57,000 to $131,000 depending on experience and specialization, with mid-level roles landing between $85,000 and $97,000 nationally. The role is growing at 34% through 2034 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, … Read more
