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 The CFO interview questions that matter in 2026 test which kind of CFO your company needs, whether the candidate knows their current numbers without notes, and how they would run the next thirteen weeks of cash. Nobody reaches a CFO final round without knowing what EBITDA is. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A blockchain developer job description should name the chain and contract language, the test toolchain, how much value the code will control, who holds signing keys, how the code exercise is delivered, and the pay, tokens included. Base pay starts around $125,000 for mid-level smart contract work this year … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a small pharma company need a director of quality? Most need one by the time their lead program leaves phase 1 and full CGMP under 21 CFR Part 211 applies, sooner if they add a second CDMO or face a pre-approval inspection. Here’s a quicker test. Who … Read more
Hard-to-fill position still open after three months? A recruiter on finding the stage where your search is stuck, and the fix that works for each one.
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 A big data engineer job description has to state the daily data volume, the platform with its Spark, Hadoop, and Java versions, and whether the hire will run the cluster or move off it. Our 2026 salary guide puts mid-level base pay between $134,000 and $152,000, and seniors land … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The best blockchain developer interview questions put real contract code in front of the candidate and ask who can change it, where money could leave, and which textbook answers stopped being true after Ethereum’s 2025 Pectra upgrade. Save definitions of consensus and hashing for a recruiter call. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Big data engineer interview questions worth asking test the physics of scale, such as where a shuffle’s partition count came from, what fills a NameNode’s memory, and why a Kafka consumer group stalls on every deploy. Ask for definitions of the four Vs or lazy evaluation during a phone … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Good AI agent engineer interview questions ask about consequences, meaning what the candidate’s agent was allowed to change, how it knew to stop, and what happened when a single tool call ran twice. Framework names and definitions of “agentic” belong on a phone screen, if anywhere. Hire the one … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your quality manager just resigned, and finance wants the replacement posted at a salary site’s number. Would you sign off? Quality managers at U.S. drug manufacturers fall in a Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation that paid a median $138,990 in May 2025, while PayScale’s all-industry quality manager median sits … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 An Informatica developer job description works when it names which Informatica product the person will actually open, how far along the move off PowerCenter is, whether data quality is part of the job, and the pay. Most name none of those. They say “Informatica” and stop there, … Read more
