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 at KORE1 When you’re not technical, you hire engineers by borrowing the judgment you don’t have, through a paid work-sample test, a trusted engineer sitting in on your interviews, and reference checks that dig into what the person actually shipped. You will not learn to read code in … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A group product manager runs a small team of PMs while still owning strategy for a product area, and costs $190,000 to $285,000 base in 2026, or $310,000 to $560,000 all in at public tech firms. That double duty is the whole job, and it is also … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 Kore1 ranks #1 among tech staffing agencies in Seattle for 2026 — with a 4.7 Glassdoor score, documented AI sourcing, and a 17-day average IT fill time that no competitor on this list publicly matches. Kforce earns the #2 spot for finance-adjacent IT hiring. TEKsystems is the strongest call for … Read more
How Long Does It Take to Hire a Machine Learning Engineer in 2026? Hiring a machine learning engineer in 2026 takes roughly 8 to 14 weeks on an internal search, and 4 to 7 weeks through a specialized agency, with production ML infrastructure and seniority accounting for most of the range. Applied roles on an … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Hiring a controller in 2026 means budgeting roughly $120,000 to $210,000, planning a six-to-ten-week search, and deciding first whether the seat calls for a hands-on close manager or a strategic finance leader. The pay band is not the hard part. Neither is finding résumés. What kills … Read more
A strong prompt engineer job description makes clear the job is building and measuring LLM-powered systems, not writing clever prompts. It names the models and the evaluation tooling, and it posts a band, because the same title covers a $110K content-ops seat and a $400K research one. The template below comes from prompt and applied-AI … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 The Workday consultant interview questions that predict a strong hire in 2026 test configuration judgment under pressure, not memorized terminology. Hand a candidate a business process that routes to the wrong approver and watch them reason toward the fix. Ask why an integration failed overnight with payroll … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at KORE1 Hiring a head of engineering starts with one call: whether you need a hands-on builder, a pure people-leader, or the first executive who owns all of engineering, then budget $200,000 to $450,000 and give the search two to four months. That single sentence hides the whole … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 ranks #1 among AI staffing agencies in 2026 with a 17-day average time-to-hire, a 4.7 Glassdoor rating across 219 reviews, and documented recruiting depth across LLM, MLOps, GenAI, computer vision, and NLP engineering. Insight Global leads for enterprise scale across 70+ locations. MSH stands out for its proprietary Aeon … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A Kubernetes engineer interview should put a broken cluster in front of the candidate and watch how they reason toward a fix. The questions that predict a strong hire in 2026 are operational, not definitional. How you’d halt a bad rollout. Why a pod sits in Pending. … Read more
