Tom Kenaley
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 Hiring a solutions architect is a translator search, not a senior-engineer search. You are looking for the person who can sit in a room with a VP of engineering, a skeptical CFO, and a client’s security officer, then walk out with agreement on an architecture that actually ships. The … 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: Strategy Guide for Employers Contingent workforce management is how an organization sources, contracts, tracks, pays, and eventually off-ramps the people who do real work for it without being on the payroll. That includes 1099 independent contractors, W-2 agency temps, SOW consultants, freelancers, and the half-dozen other labels the industry keeps inventing. Done … Read more
Skills Gap Analysis: How to Identify and Close Workforce Gaps 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 … Read more
How to Hire Remote Developers: Complete Guide Most US companies asking how to hire remote developers are actually asking the wrong question. They think the decision is “remote or not remote.” It isn’t. The real decision is which of three completely different hiring structures fits the work. Get that part wrong and the cheapest hire … Read more
A Chief Information Officer runs every piece of technology a company depends on. Strategy, infrastructure, security, vendor relationships, team building, budget fights with the CFO. All of it lands on the CIO’s desk. The role has changed dramatically in the last five years, shifting from a back-office operations function into a strategic leadership position that … Read more
Oracle’s March 2026 layoffs displaced thousands of OCI-certified cloud engineers with deep experience in infrastructure design, Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud architecture. Many hold OCI Architect Professional and Multicloud certifications. They’re available now at competitive rates. For companies running AWS, Azure, or GCP workloads, this is a rare window to hire production-tested cloud talent that normally … Read more
Oracle Health Layoffs 2026: What Healthcare IT Hiring Managers Need to Know Oracle cut roughly 30% of its Revenue and Health Sciences division on March 31, 2026, releasing thousands of Cerner-trained EHR specialists, clinical informatics engineers, and healthcare data analysts into the open market. For healthcare organizations running Cerner Millennium, Epic, or any major clinical … Read more
30,000 Oracle Engineers Just Hit the Market I got four calls before lunch on March 31. All hiring managers. All asking the same thing. Oracle had just terminated up to 30,000 people that morning. Not over weeks or in phases. One email. 6 a.m. Subject line from “Oracle Leadership.” Badge revoked by the time most … Read more
