Tom Kenaley
How to Hire a QA Engineer: Testing Talent Acquisition Guide Hiring a QA engineer starts with one question most teams skip. Which QA engineer? The title covers at least three distinct roles in 2026, the salary bands barely overlap at the senior level, and the wrong match on day one is why a majority of … Read more
Employer Branding: How to Attract Top Tech Talent Your employer brand is the version of your company that lives inside the heads of people you haven’t hired yet, built from Glassdoor reviews they read at midnight, LinkedIn posts from your engineers, and the interview experience their friend described over lunch last week. Companies with a … Read more
Top Fintech Companies Hiring in 2026 The fintech companies actually hiring in 2026 are Stripe, Plaid, Ramp, Mercury, Adyen, Wise, Revolut, Toast, Gusto, Rippling, SoFi, Chime, Nubank, Klarna, and Rho. Several bigger names on every other “top fintech” listicle are running hiring freezes, finishing acquisitions, or cutting staff right now. This guide ranks the fintech … Read more
Structured interview questions are predetermined, job-specific questions asked in the same order to every candidate, scored against a consistent rubric. For technical hiring, they are the single most reliable predictor of on-the-job performance, with validity coefficients roughly double those of unstructured conversations, and yet most engineering managers still wing it. Fourteen interviews. That is how … Read more
Hiring a mechanical engineer means finding someone who can take a product from napkin sketch to manufactured reality: the CAD models, the tolerance stackups, the material selections, and the arguments with the manufacturing floor. The median base sits around $104,110 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that number hides enormous variance depending on … Read more
In-House Recruiting vs Staffing Agency: Cost and Speed Comparison In-house recruiting costs less per hire once you’re making 10 or more placements a year, but it’s slower and carries fixed overhead whether you’re hiring or not. A staffing agency charges 15% to 25% of first-year salary per placement, delivers shortlists in 10 to 14 days … Read more
How to Hire a Solutions Architect To hire a solutions architect, first decide between a pre-sales SA (sales-facing, variable pay) and a delivery SA (build-facing, flat base), then screen for the translation skills covered in this IT staffing guide. Hiring a solutions architect is a translator search, not a senior-engineer search. You are looking for … Read more
Skills-Based Hiring: Why Credentials Are Out and Competency Is In Skills-based hiring is a recruitment strategy that evaluates candidates on demonstrated abilities, not diplomas. Companies using it report wider talent pools, stronger retention, and better job performance. The catch is that most companies announcing it aren’t actually doing it, and the gap between the press … Read more
Contingent workforce management is the discipline of sourcing, classifying, paying, and off-boarding non-employee workers (1099s, agency temps, SOW consultants) at a scale that needs its own process. Most companies need a formal program only past roughly $3M in annual contingent spend. Contingent workforce management is how an organization sources, contracts, tracks, pays, and eventually off-ramps … Read more
A skills gap analysis is the process of comparing the skills your team has today to the skills your business actually needs to hit its goals, then deciding what to do about the difference. The deciding part is where almost every company gets stuck. The analysis itself is straightforward. The conversation that has to happen … Read more
