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 Contingent workers make up about 4.3 percent of US employment, roughly 6.9 million people, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, not the 40 percent figure that keeps turning up in vendor decks. That 40 percent number is real. It also dates from 2010, comes from the … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Is a CDMO just a factory you rent? Not quite. A contract development and manufacturing organization is a company that develops and manufactures drugs for other pharmaceutical and biotech companies under contract, from formulation and process development through clinical supply and commercial batches. The D is the part people … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 A chief AI officer job description must spell out the reporting line, the AI budget the seat controls, which deployment decisions it can approve or stop without a vote, and the regulations it answers for. Base pay in our salary guide runs $280,000 to $400,000 at mid-market companies and … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The chief AI officer interview questions that separate finalists in 2026 ask about things that already happened, like the AI inventory a candidate built, what one feature cost per task, and who could shut it off. Strategy answers are rehearsed now. Receipts are not. A specialty insurer … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Good chief data officer interview questions make finalists prove, with dated examples, that they have tied a data program to a financial result, shut down a project, and explained a data failure to unhappy executives. Questions about vision and philosophy are easy to rehearse. Questions about money, stopping, and … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 A CFO job description should name the decisions the CFO owns, what reports to them, who they answer to (the board, an audit committee, a lender, a sponsor), and the whole pay structure, bonus and equity included. Most CFO postings describe a controller’s job under a bigger title. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A chief data officer job description should state the year-one goal, the reporting line, any duties a regulator expects someone to be named for, what the CIO, CISO, and AI leader keep, and a real pay range. Responsibilities come after that. Most CDO postings flip the order. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Useful Guidewire developer interview questions make the candidate read Gosu, trace a single commit through bundles and pre-update rules, and explain what a messaging destination does when one claim’s message fails and the retries start. Definitions of PCF files and typelists can stay on the phone screen. The panel … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Guidewire developer in 2026, decide which application, which layer, and which deployment the seat covers, then check every certification against Guidewire’s own release rules before anyone books a panel interview. Plan on six to twelve weeks for a direct hire and four to eight … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A Guidewire developer job description should name the application and the Guidewire Cloud release or self-managed version your team runs, list the Gosu, PCF, and integration work the developer owns, and state where business analyst work stops. Add a sentence on AI coding tools and a real … Read more
