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 Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An embedded software engineer costs $145,000 at the median in total compensation and $217,000 at the 75th percentile, and the role is not the same hire as a firmware engineer, whatever your req says. This person lives above the metal. They own the application layer on somebody … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Embedded software engineer interview questions in 2026 test memory-constrained C, RTOS scheduling and priority inversion, interrupt and DMA discipline, hardware debug method, and secure update paths, not the data-structures loop a general software engineer runs. The two roles share a language and almost nothing else. Most reqs … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring a Sage Intacct consultant in 2026 costs $75 to $135 an hour on contract, or $110,000 to $170,000 base for a direct hire. Settle whether you’re buying a partner firm or a person for a seat before you write a word of the req. Those are … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an AI agent engineer in 2026 costs roughly $150,000 at the median and north of $270,000 at the 75th percentile, and the deciding skill is production reliability, not model knowledge. The demo is never the hard part. Keeping the thing correct on the four hundredth run … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 The 2026 contract labor market gives buyers deeper candidate pools and less pricing power than 2025 did. Temporary employment has climbed seven straight months while total payrolls went flat, bill rates turned upward in February, and the federal rulebook on who counts as a contractor is being … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an Oracle EBS consultant in 2026 runs $65 to $150 an hour on contract, or $115,000 to $175,000 base for a direct hire. Scope by module before you scope by title, because Financials, Supply Chain, HRMS, and the technical stack behave like four separate talent markets … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an ERP consultant when the work in front of you changes how the system is designed, and hire another administrator when it only changes how the system is configured. That one distinction settles the argument faster than any symptom list, including the seven below. Difficulty is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Choose an executive search firm by testing four things before you sign: who personally runs your search, how the firm proves its market map, what its off-limits list blocks, and what the guarantee actually replaces. Everything else in the pitch meeting is decoration. Logos on a slide. … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 To hire an Epicor consultant, scope the product and the version before the title, because Kinetic, Prophet 21, Eclipse, BisTrack, and CMS are separate talent pools billing $85 to $165 an hour on contract in 2026. Direct-hire base for an experienced Epicor functional consultant runs roughly $110,000 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire a Boomi developer by scoping three things before the req posts: which runtime they inherit, whether EDI and agent governance are in scope, and the band. Base pay runs $102,000 to $167,000 in 2026, contract pay rates sit near $48 to $64 an hour, and a … Read more
