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 A generative AI engineer job description covers an engineer who builds product features on foundation models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, owning retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and inference cost, usually without training a model from scratch. Most postings under that title in 2026 describe somebody else. The template … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The Java developer job descriptions that fill in 2026 state the JDK version and Spring Boot generation the team runs, say whether the hire builds new services or maintains existing ones, and post a salary range. Most templates ranking for this search skip all three. Two of those … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Good iOS developer job descriptions in 2026 spend their words on the app: its SwiftUI and UIKit split, the oldest iOS version it supports, the Apple frameworks it relies on, and who handles App Review. Swift, Xcode, and “five years of experience” show up on every iOS … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Splunk engineer interviews in 2026 should test licensing judgment, data onboarding decisions, and how a candidate diagnoses a broken search, not SPL syntax anyone can memorize from a certification guide. The title gets used for three different jobs, and most interview loops only screen for one of … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring a Splunk engineer means picking one of three different jobs first, security engineer, observability engineer, or platform admin, because pay bands swing from roughly $99,000 to $153,000 depending on which one you actually post. That’s before certifications, before SPL fluency, before any of it. Get the … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Splunk engineers earn $99,000 to $209,000 in 2026, with SIEM-focused Splunk Security Engineers averaging $152,773 and general infrastructure-facing roles closer to $147,524. The title on the req decides which number you’re budgeting for, and a lot of companies pick the wrong one before the posting ever goes live. A … Read more
A blended workforce model combines full-time employees with contractors, consultants, and project-based specialists so a company can staff for both its permanent workload and its temporary spikes. Budgeting one takes two numbers most finance teams don’t track side by side: the fully loaded cost of an FTE and the all-in bill rate of a contractor. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Bring in a contract accountant for year-end close as soon as your audit engagement letter and your close calendar start overlapping, which for most December fiscal years means the search should open by early September, not late November. Wait until the 10-K clock is running and the strong contract … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Bring in contract cybersecurity talent when the work is a burst your team cannot absorb or has never done before, and hire full time when someone has to own the outcome permanently. That sounds close to the test you already run on every other technical role. It … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the best product manager staffing agency in 2026 for companies that need a W-2 contractor, a documented PM screening process, and a 17-day average fill time. Insight Global handles multi-role contract programs at enterprise scale. Kforce brings 60+ years of IT staffing and documented PM practice … Read more
