Tom Kenaley
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: Templates for Technical Hiring 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 … Read more
How to Hire a Mechanical Engineer in 2026 Hiring a mechanical engineer means finding someone who can take a product from napkin sketch to manufactured reality, owning the CAD models, the tolerance stackups, the material selections, and the arguments with the manufacturing floor about what is actually producible at volume. The median base sits around … 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 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
