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 Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Salesforce administrator job description should name the org’s size, the automation the admin will own, whether the seat is solo or on a team, the current credential names, and a 2026 base band of $85,000 to $135,000. Most of the templates you will find for this … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An employment background check is a third-party report on a candidate’s criminal, employment, education, and sometimes credit history, governed federally by the FCRA and Title VII and further restricted by fair-chance laws in fifteen states. The report itself is rarely the problem. The paperwork around it is. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 ERP projects fail because the seats that matter go unfilled, not because the software is wrong. Six staffing gaps cause most of it, and every one of them is visible before kickoff if you know where to look. Somebody usually invites me to the post-mortem. The slide … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A retained executive search runs in installments over roughly 90 to 120 days, with the firm mapping a market, approaching passive leaders directly, and delivering three to five assessed finalists instead of a stack of applicants. That timeline is two to three times longer than the published … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring a C-suite executive in 2026 starts by naming which seat you need and what it owns, budgeting $250,000 to $900,000 in total pay depending on the role, then giving the search 90 to 150 days. Most companies get the last part right and the first part … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A dedicated in-house technical recruiter runs $122,000 to $130,000 a year once benefits and tools are counted, and the math only wins past roughly six to seven closed hires a year. Below that volume, a 20% to 25% contingency fee per placement costs you less. That crossover … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an SAP FICO consultant by naming which side, FI or CO, actually carries your project before you write the req. Direct-hire leads run $135,000 to $195,000 base in 2026, contract rates span $95 to $180 an hour, and a properly scoped search closes in three to … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 A good contract-to-hire conversion rate falls between 10% and 20% of a company’s total contract workforce converting to full-time roles each year, based on employer-side industry benchmarks, well below the 60%-plus figures often quoted online. That gap is not a typo. It is a definitions problem, … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Cloud security engineer interview questions in 2026 test least-privilege IAM design across AWS, Azure, or GCP, CSPM alert triage, Kubernetes and container security, and judgment during a live cloud incident, not generic AppSec or SOC-analyst material. The generic security-engineer loop still gets run against roughly half … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder, KORE1 Hire an ERP implementation partner when someone needs to own the project’s outcome end to end, and hire a staffing agency when your team already owns it and just needs the right people in the seats. Most companies that ask us this question actually need both, at different points in … Read more
