Jennifer Burdick
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract IT project manager or scrum master bills $72 to $93 an hour nationally, median $81, or about $42,200 for three months. Senior program managers bill $93 to $114, median $106. KORE1’s own placements, mostly in Southern California, bill $105 to $124 … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Temporary help services lost 10,900 jobs in September 2026, the second drop in three months, while total payrolls rose just 29,000 and unemployment reached 4.2% (BLS, preliminary). Temp help is still about 15,000 jobs above where it was a year earlier. Our view at KORE1 is that temp dips … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An SAP S/4HANA consultant job description should name the S/4HANA objects the seat will own, such as Business Partner, Material Ledger, credit management, or rebate settlement, say how your system got to S/4HANA, and print a closed base range. For mid-level through senior functional consultants in 2026, that range … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Power BI developer interview questions in 2026 should make the candidate predict what a DAX measure returns before anyone runs it, and say where each Power Query step actually executes. Building a chart is the easy part of the job. Reading a model is the hard part, and it … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A mechanical engineer job description should state how the parts are made and in what volume, which code or quality system governs the work, what the release package contains, any export-control limit, and a base range of $84,000 to $145,000. That range covers mid-level through senior engineers in 2026. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 IAM engineer interview questions in 2026 should spend most of the hour on tokens, consent grants, and non-human accounts, because that is where the identity breaches of the last three years actually happened. Definitions are what the candidate studied. Breaches are what the candidate will face. A card servicing … Read more
A data migration plan is a written document that names what moves, how each field maps, which numbers must reconcile before cutover, who approves each gate, and the exact conditions that trigger rollback. Most of what gets circulated as a migration plan is a Gantt chart with the word “migration” on it. That is a … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 .NET 8 and .NET 9 both lose Microsoft support on November 10, 2026, and the recommended move is .NET 10, an LTS release supported until November 2028. Your apps keep running past .NET 8 end of life. What stops is security patching. The upgrade itself is a retarget and … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A financial analyst job description should name the analyst profile, whose decisions the analysis feeds, whether the hire builds a model or maintains one, where the numbers live, and a base range, roughly $90,000 to $115,000 mid-level. Almost no posting names even three of those. They list duties that … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An electrical engineer job description should name the voltage class, the deliverable the engineer hands off, whether that work carries a PE seal, the field and energized-work split, and a base range, roughly $90,000 to $158,000 in 2026. Most postings skip all five. They describe electrical engineering in general, … Read more
