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 Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Co-sourcing internal audit means your chief audit executive keeps the plan, the methodology, and the sign-off, and buys outside hours for specific gaps. Outsourcing hands the whole function to a firm. The decision is about who stays accountable, not about headcount. The quote came back at $410,000 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 CBP has accepted roughly $134.7 billion in IEEPA tariff refund claims, and Phase 3 opened October 6, 2026, but only importers already suing at the Court of International Trade can file in it. The money is real. The bottleneck is people who can prove a claim entry … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Plan 2027 headcount at a higher hurdle rate, because the Fed raised its target range to 3.75 to 4 percent in September and most FOMC participants expect another increase by year end. Investment-grade borrowing costs now run 5.99 percent, up 121 basis points in a year. The practical effect … Read more
An art director salary in 2026 runs about $85,000 to $100,000 on the agency and brand searches I run, against a federal median of $114,850 and a Glassdoor average of $107,994. The gap is mostly which art director you mean. By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 Eighty-five to one hundred thousand. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A financial analyst job description should name the analyst profile, whose decisions the analysis feeds, whether the hire builds a model or maintains one, where the numbers live, and a base range, roughly $90,000 to $115,000 mid-level. Almost no posting names even three of those. They list duties that … Read more
The best embedded and firmware staffing agencies in 2026 are KORE1, PRA USA, SPECTRAFORCE, Protingent, Actalent, Net2Source, and EV.Careers, ranked by the Placement Authority Score across firmware-specific recruiter depth, vertical industry coverage, screening methodology, and engagement flexibility. KORE1 ranks first for its combination of active firmware and embedded engineering bench, W-2 staffing model, 92% twelve … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Good financial analyst interview questions in 2026 make the candidate push one number through all three statements, explain a budget miss to someone outside finance, and own a forecast they got wrong. Definitions can be memorized the night before. Those three can’t. A building-products distributor in Sacramento learned this … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your packaging line finished a batch on Tuesday. When does it ship? Batch record review is the quality unit’s check that every production and control record for a batch is complete, correct, and explained, and under FDA rules that check comes before the batch can be released or distributed. … Read more
Q4 2026 tech job market forecast: tech cuts near 9,000 a month, freezes after the Fed’s rate hike, and the tech roles that still close before year-end.
Creative director salary in 2026: $120K to $210K total pay, why associate CDs out-earn CDs on Glassdoor, and how film, agencies, and cities shift pay.
