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 Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 The chief revenue officer interview questions worth asking in 2026 make a finalist give you numbers with their denominators, inspect a live deal in front of you, and name the people who can confirm both. Everything else is conversation. Your finalist is better at conversation than you are. That … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 A scientist with six years in a GLP lab applies for your manufacturing opening. Same thing as GMP, more or less? No. GLP governs how nonclinical safety studies are run and recorded so regulators can trust the data, while GMP governs how a drug is made, tested, and released … Read more
Marketing salaries in 2026, role by role: ranges from recent agency and creative searches set against federal wage data, plus how to set your own range.
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 SOW misclassification is staff augmentation bought on a statement of work: named people, directed by your managers, billed by the hour against timesheets. No industry dataset tells you how much of your SOW spend it covers. You get that number by auditing your own ledger. Three numbers are going … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Engineering capacity planning means multiplying engineers by working days, subtracting holidays, PTO, meetings, on-call, and maintenance, and comparing what remains against roadmap estimates padded by your team’s own track record. Whatever is left over is the gap. Every way of closing it arrives on a different calendar, and a … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Two resumes both say “five years of GMP experience.” Same five years? Probably not. GMP experience means a person has done work governed by current good manufacturing practice rules, following approved written procedures, recording each step as they did it, and signing records a quality unit reviews. On a … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Worker misclassification penalties in 2026 depend on the state: 28 states and the District of Columbia have a fine written for misclassification, from $200 per worker in Texas to $50,000 per employee in Colorado, while 21 have none. Federal back taxes and wage claims apply everywhere on top of … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An ERP implementation checklist lists the work across eight phases, from contract and design through cutover and hypercare, and a useful one also budgets the people, meaning who covers each borrowed employee’s day job and what that cover costs. Most published checklists stop at the first half. The second … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Contingent workforce program governance starts with six written pages covering who counts as a contingent worker, who may engage one, who decides classification, what every supplier must accept, what rates and conversion fees apply, and how managers treat contractors. Write those before any VMS demo or MSP … Read more
Should you hire from another industry? Which transferable skills carry into marketing and creative roles, which backgrounds translate, and when to say no.
