7 Best IT Consulting Firms in 2026 (Scored and Ranked)

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By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the top-scoring IT consulting firm in 2026 on the Placement Authority Score (8.66/10), leading all 7 firms in recruiter quality, placement retention, and verified review ratings. Accenture leads for enterprise-scale transformation (8.64). Deloitte leads for regulated industries (8.41). Rankings use a 7-factor methodology weighted toward talent quality and … Read more

EDI Analyst Job Description Template 2026

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By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 An EDI analyst job description should name your ERP, your translator platform, the X12 or EDIFACT version your partners require, and the trading partners the hire inherits. Base bands run $60,000 to $175,000 in 2026, and where you land in that spread is decided by scope, not … Read more

EDI Analyst Interview Questions 2026

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By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 EDI analyst interview questions in 2026 should test acknowledgment reasoning, ASN accuracy against the physical shipment, partner-spec deviation handling, and one real production failure, not definitions of X12 transaction set numbers. Most published question lists stop at the definitions. Nobody has ever failed a definition. The better … Read more

How to Vet a Staffing Agency: 12 Questions That Expose the Weak Ones

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By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Vetting a staffing agency comes down to four things a firm either can or cannot produce on request, a named recruiter, a 12-month retention rate, worker classification paperwork, and a written conversion fee schedule. Everything a sales team brings to the first meeting is optional. Those four … Read more

Workday HCM Consultant Interview Questions 2026

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By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 Workday HCM consultant interview questions in 2026 should test staffing-model judgment, effective-dated data corrections, security-group reasoning, and one real open-enrollment or payroll failure, not module definitions any candidate can recite. The training-site question banks all test recall. Recall is the cheapest part of this hire. What you … Read more

How to Hire a Workday HCM Consultant: 2026 Guide

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By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Workday HCM consultant in 2026, scope the req by module rather than by title, because Core HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, and Recruiting each draws from a different pool at a different price. The title tells you almost nothing about who can … Read more

How to Hire a Chief Revenue Officer: 2026 Guide

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By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A Chief Revenue Officer costs $313,000 to $374,000 in base salary across the middle of the U.S. market, on-target earnings usually land near double the base, and most searches run 8 to 14 weeks. None of that is the decision that determines whether the hire works. That … Read more

ERP Implementation Team Structure: Roles You Actually Need

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By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An ERP implementation needs seven filled seats, and only three of them are full-time. Executive sponsor, project manager, solution architect, data lead, one process owner per in-scope area, a test owner, and the administrator who runs the system after go-live. Everything else on the org chart is … Read more