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 Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Good IT director interview questions in 2026 test what a resume hides: how the candidate handled a vendor renewal that tripled, who wrote the help desk reset script, and what happened to the Windows 10 machines nobody retired. Leadership-style questions still belong in the loop. They just … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A game developer job description should name the discipline, the engine and its version, the platform, the milestone the hire lands into, what counts as a shipped credit, your generative AI policy, and a published pay range. Most postings name the engine. Then they list adjectives. Here’s … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A group product manager job description should name the product managers the hire will manage, who writes their reviews, the surface the hire still runs personally, and a base range, typically $190,000 to $285,000 in 2026. Strip any one of those four out and the posting reads … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 IAM engineer interview questions in 2026 should spend most of the hour on tokens, consent grants, and non-human accounts, because that is where the identity breaches of the last three years actually happened. Definitions are what the candidate studied. Breaches are what the candidate will face. A card servicing … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Good group product manager interview questions test two jobs at once, owning a product surface and growing the two to four PMs who report in, and they make the candidate show how one 45-hour week holds both. Most published lists skip the second job. They ask senior PM questions … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 DHS has proposed charging schools $70,000 the first time they recommend an F-1 student for Optional Practical Training, plus $30,000 for each later recommendation. Nothing is in effect. Comments close November 9, 2026. That is the whole mechanism, and it is worth reading twice, because almost every headline about … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from PERM on October 8, 2026. H-1B status was not touched. Only the green card step stopped, and only at those eight employers. Everyone else files normally. A green card freeze at … Read more
The top analytics recruiting firms in 2026 are KORE1, Harnham, Analytic Recruiting, Burtch Works, Dataspace, Kforce, and Robert Half, ranked by the Placement Authority Score across analytics role segmentation, tool-stack screening depth, vertical industry coverage, and placement retention. KORE1 ranks first for its ability to screen across all four analytics tiers, from data analyst through … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a growing science company stop borrowing recruiters and hire one? Hire your first internal recruiter when hiring becomes a repeating pattern instead of a run of surprises, meaning the same few roles keep reopening, two or three searches run at once, and a manager is losing days … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Co-sourcing internal audit means your chief audit executive keeps the plan, the methodology, and the sign-off, and buys outside hours for specific gaps. Outsourcing hands the whole function to a firm. The decision is about who stays accountable, not about headcount. The quote came back at $410,000 … Read more
