Comprehensive hiring guides, talent acquisition strategies, and workforce planning resources for employers — covering everything from sourcing and screening to offer negotiation and onboarding across IT, engineering, and finance roles.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 IonQ agreed on October 12, 2026 to buy zero trust firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock, putting post-quantum cryptography and network segmentation in one product and, for most security teams, on the same few engineers. The quantum half is not what you hire for. … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The IMF estimates AI will touch about 40% of jobs worldwide and 60% in advanced economies, but roughly half of those exposed jobs gain from it, so your real decision is which roles get augmented, downgraded, or cut. Kristalina Georgieva said it out loud on Monday in Bangkok, … Read more
A motion designer salary in 2026 runs $75,000 to $150,000 depending on level, and federal data backs it up, putting the middle half of the occupation at $75,490 to $139,130 with a $102,030 median. By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 Seventy-five to one-fifty. When I give a client that range for … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 You run a QC lab, nobody in the building recruits for a living, and you just typed “recruitment support” into a search bar. What are you actually asking for? Recruitment support is outside help that takes over some or all of the hiring work a talent acquisition team would … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An IT director job description should state the environment in numbers, which functions sit in-house versus with an MSP, who owns security when there is no CISO, and a base range, usually $160,000 to $210,000 at mid-market companies. Leave those out and you get a list of … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder, KORE1 An IAM engineer job description should name the identity track, the HR and directory systems it connects, how many human and non-human identities it governs, the audit that sets its calendar, the engineer’s authority, and a pay range. Most postings name three vendors and stop. “We got 214 Okta admins.” … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Good IT director interview questions in 2026 test what a resume hides: how the candidate handled a vendor renewal that tripled, who wrote the help desk reset script, and what happened to the Windows 10 machines nobody retired. Leadership-style questions still belong in the loop. They just … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A game developer job description should name the discipline, the engine and its version, the platform, the milestone the hire lands into, what counts as a shipped credit, your generative AI policy, and a published pay range. Most postings name the engine. Then they list adjectives. Here’s … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A group product manager job description should name the product managers the hire will manage, who writes their reviews, the surface the hire still runs personally, and a base range, typically $190,000 to $285,000 in 2026. Strip any one of those four out and the posting reads … 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
