Tom Kenaley
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A NetSuite consultant job description should tell candidates which engagement they are walking into, a new implementation, a rescue, an integration build, or support inside a validated environment, and whether the seat configures NetSuite or writes SuiteScript. Most postings list modules instead, and a module list sorts … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Contract buys hours against a defined scope, interim buys a full-time leader to hold an empty seat until it is filled, and fractional buys senior judgment part-time on an ongoing basis. Duration is what most people compare first, and it is the axis that tells you the … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Extend a contractor’s contract when the work continues but conversion is blocked, convert when the work is permanent and you’d rehire the person tomorrow, and release them once either the work or the fit has run out. Two facts settle nearly every contractor contract extension question. Both … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A generative AI engineer job description covers an engineer who builds product features on foundation models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, owning retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and inference cost, usually without training a model from scratch. Most postings under that title in 2026 describe somebody else. The template … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring a Splunk engineer means picking one of three different jobs first, security engineer, observability engineer, or platform admin, because pay bands swing from roughly $99,000 to $153,000 depending on which one you actually post. That’s before certifications, before SPL fluency, before any of it. Get the … Read more
A blended workforce model combines full-time employees with contractors, consultants, and project-based specialists so a company can staff for both its permanent workload and its temporary spikes. Budgeting one takes two numbers most finance teams don’t track side by side: the fully loaded cost of an FTE and the all-in bill rate of a contractor. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Contract staffing is an arrangement where a staffing agency hires a worker onto its own W-2 payroll and assigns that person to a client company for a defined term, usually three to eighteen months. The agency carries payroll, taxes, workers’ compensation, and unemployment. You direct the work … Read more
A Databricks engineer job description that works names the cloud, the platform layer this person touches, your Unity Catalog state, and who owns the compute bill.
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 CISO interview questions in 2026 should test disclosure judgment, spending under a flat budget, third-party exposure, and one incident the candidate read wrong. Strategy questions no longer separate anybody. Every finalist has that answer polished. Look at the published question lists and you find the same six … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An AWS solutions architect job description works when it names one Well-Architected pillar the seat actually owns, one certification rung, the real account topology, and whether the architect writes infrastructure code or reviews it. Most reqs name none of the four, then wonder why the funnel arrives … Read more
