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.
KORE1 is the top agency for hiring contract CPAs and accounting temps in 2026, with a 17-day average fill, 92% 12-month retention, and finance-specialist recruiters who know the licensed CPA pool by city. Creative Financial Staffing leads for pure accounting focus with CPA-firm roots going back to 1994. Kforce covers dual finance-and-technology staffing at scale. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 An AI research scientist job description should name the open problem the hire will work on, what counts as success at month twelve, the publication and patent policy, the compute they get, and the pay range. Most postings list a PhD and a stack instead. The researchers you want … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 You hire an agile coach by first writing down what is broken and who sponsors fixing it, then matching contract or full-time to how long it will take, then watching finalists facilitate your own team before anyone looks at certifications. Plan on about three weeks. Transformation leads … Read more
KORE1 is the best IT staffing agency in Houston for 2026, ranked #1 for IT specialization depth and a documented 17-day average time-to-hire. Burnett Specialists leads on local Houston market knowledge built over 50 years as the city’s largest placement firm. Frontline Source Group is the top pick for small and mid-size companies that want … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 AI research scientist interview questions in 2026 should test whether a candidate can tell a real result from noise, covering seed variance, fair baselines, benchmark contamination, and a written proposal that says when to stop. Publications get someone into the room. How they treat evidence decides whether they should … Read more
A marketing automation migration off Marketo or HubSpot needs a contract platform admin, a data hygiene analyst, and an email builder for the migration months, then one admin kept after cutover. Ask each one about the last migration they ran end to end. KORE1 contractors start a median 3 days after an offer (n=1,997). By … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 How long should you budget a contract lab tech or QC analyst to stay? Plan on about six months. KORE1 lab, QC, and life-science contracts ran a median 193 days (n=54, 2019 to 2026), against 116 days across all KORE1 roles and 136 for IT. Figures come from KORE1’s … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Route only the fields the extractor tags as uncertain to contract reviewers and leave the rest of the document flow automated. Two mid-level financial analysts plus one data analyst who tunes the routing rules run about $134,400 for three months at KORE1 Contract Rate Index … Read more
KORE1 ranks as the best IT staffing agency in Philadelphia for 2026 on recruiter specialization, placement retention, and technology-sector depth. TEKsystems, Insight Global, and The Judge Group round out the top four. Rankings use the Placement Authority Score. Watch: 7 Best IT Staffing Agencies in Philadelphia (2026) Video chapters 0:00 — Philadelphia’s Four IT Hiring … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A staffing SOW should be time and materials: named roles, an hourly bill rate per role, an hours cap, weekly timesheet approval, notice to end the assignment, IP assignment, and conversion terms. KORE1 contractors convert at no fee after 1,040 hours. Fixed-fee and overrun clauses belong to … Read more
