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 Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Do FDA’s GMP training rules apply to the temps and contractors on your site? They do. 21 CFR 211.25 covers each person doing GMP work, whoever signs the paycheck, and your site owns those GMP training records. A staffing partner supplies verified work history and a ready start, not … Read more
An integration management office (IMO) is the temporary team that runs a post-merger integration for 6 to 18 months, usually a lead, a PMO, finance and IT integration leads, and a synergy tracker. Keep the decisions with your own people and put the tracking, coordinating, and backfill seats on contract, so your best operators stay … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A contract lab technician or QC analyst bills $33 to $56 an hour, median $40, across 54 KORE1 placements from 2019 to 2026, about $20,800 for three months at 40 hours a week. Those placements lean California. As of October 2026, BLS May 2025 wages plus a 24% employer … Read more
KORE1 ranks #1 among IT staffing companies in Texas for 2026, based on a 7-factor Placement Authority Score that weighs industry depth, geographic coverage, placement speed, and recruiter reputation. Frontline Source Group leads for Texas-native relationship hiring. TEKsystems is the best option for enterprise-scale IT contractor programs. Rankings are based on publicly verifiable data from … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Contract-to-hire your first data engineer for 1,040 hours, about six months full time, and convert at no KORE1 fee if the work holds up. A mid-level contract data engineer bills $98 to $122 an hour nationally (median $110), about $114,500 for six months (KORE1 Contract … Read more
Staff production peaks with contract producers, coordinators and post staff brought in per project, and keep only the roles you use every month on a standing basis. As of October 2026, KORE1 contractors start a median 3 days after an offer (n=1,997 offer-to-start records, all roles), and a quarter of ended assignments finish within 44 … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Can you see a stability testing spike before it lands on your bench? You can, because pull points are fixed the day a study starts. ICH Q1A(R2) calls for long-term testing every three months in year one, every six in year two, then yearly. Stack every study’s pulls, convert … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Before signing a staffing agreement, read five clauses first: conversion and buyout terms, non-solicitation, notice to end an assignment, insurance and liability, and timesheet approval and payment. Everything else in the document is boilerplate. Fair warning. That’s not a dig at the rest of the contract. Most … Read more
When a W2 agency contractor works overtime, the staffing firm pays 1.5x pay and bills the overtime rate your agreement sets, not always 1.5x the bill rate. California also owes daily overtime after 8 hours. Two different numbers, two different owners, and almost nobody explains the gap between them before the first overtime week shows … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 KORE1’s median contract assignment lasts 116 days, about four months, across 1,887 ended assignments from 2019 to 2026. A quarter end within 44 days and a quarter run past 227 days. IT assignments run longer, at a 136-day median (n=410). The data is 79% California-weighted, from KORE1’s job-activity report, … Read more
