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By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 How many contract validation engineers does a PPQ campaign need? Contract the campaign, not the validation program. Stage 2 of FDA’s 2011 process validation guidance is a bounded burst of protocol writing, execution and reporting, so rent protocol authors, executors and data reviewers for it and hand Stage 3 … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Clear an LP reporting backlog with a three-seat contract team for one quarter: a senior financial analyst on the packs, a senior accountant tying figures to the books, and a data analyst rebuilding the extracts. The fund team signs everything. That team models at about … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Agency contractors are typically paid for hours worked, so an unworked holiday usually isn’t billed unless your agreement says otherwise. Required paid sick leave works differently. The staffing firm owes it as the employer of record, and in most of our contracts it’s already built into the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director at KORE1 North Korean IT workers have used stolen identities, laptop farms and AI face-swapping to pass remote technical interviews at thousands of companies. Okta has tied the scheme to more than 6,500 interviews at over 5,000 companies through mid-2025, and the fix starts with who verifies the person on … Read more
KORE1 ranks first among IT contracting companies in 2026 for specialty depth and fill speed, averaging 17 days to place a contract IT hire across cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Insight Global leads for high-volume enterprise programs. TEKsystems integrates most deeply with enterprise VMS infrastructure. Rankings are based on IT specialty depth, recruiter reputation, … Read more
Last updated: October 27, 2026 A hiring freeze usually stops permanent headcount, not funded project spend, so hiring managers often charge hourly contractors to an approved project or operating budget. Get finance to confirm the line, work with procurement, and size the hours against the dollars you actually have. That’s the short version. A mid-level … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Staff certificate review with contract analysts while verification is automated, then shrink the bench as each field goes live. A two-seat bridge, one mid-level financial analyst and one mid-level data analyst, models at about $92,000 for three months at national medians (KORE1 Contract Rate Index … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 How many contract QC analysts does it take to clear a batch release backlog? Count the testing hours waiting (lots times tests per lot times hours per test), divide by the bench hours one analyst really gets in a week, and price the analyst-weeks at 40 hours each. At … Read more
Start the contract backfill before the leave begins so the handoff happens in person, write down what the contractor owns and what simply pauses, and plan the return before day one. As of October 2026, KORE1’s median ended contract assignment ran 116 days, and a quarter of them ended by day 44 (n=1,887, all roles). … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Bain finds that for every dollar companies spend on technology, four go to people and process, and on an AI program that people spend is data engineering, integration, and governance work. Those seats are contract-shaped. A mid-level contract data engineer bills $98 to $122 an hour nationally, … Read more
