By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Workday consultants earn a median base near $115,000, with most offers landing between $95,000 and $165,000, and senior functional and integration specialists who have carried a live deployment clearing $175,000 and up. One title, several jobs that barely resemble each other. The module bends … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 The Workday consultant interview questions that predict a strong hire in 2026 test configuration judgment under pressure, not memorized terminology. Hand a candidate a business process that routes to the wrong approver and watch them reason toward the fix. Ask why an integration failed overnight with payroll … Read more
Compensation benchmarking is the process of comparing your pay against current market data, then setting ranges by role, level, and location so your offers land where you want them to. A pay strategy turns that data into a decision about whether you lead the market, match it, or trail it on base and then make … Read more
Real-world tech onboarding best practices: preboarding, week-one merged PRs, the day 14 reset, 30-60-90 plans that hold up, contract vs direct-hire shapes, and the manager mistakes that drive 90-day attrition.
Building a talent pipeline before you need to hire means cultivating relationships with potential hires while no role is open, so that when one does open, you start the search at a known quality bar instead of cold. The work happens during quiet weeks. The payoff shows up in the loud ones. Most companies treat … Read more
Workforce Analytics: Using Data to Drive Talent Decisions A head of HR at a 600-person manufacturer in Riverside called us last summer. She wanted to hire “a people analytics person.” Halfway through the intake call she paused and asked if we could help her figure out what she actually meant by that. Did she want … Read more
What Is Succession Planning and Why Should You Care Succession planning is how you make sure critical leadership roles don’t turn into five-alarm fires when somebody leaves. You identify the people who could step up. You develop them. And ideally you do this before the departure email hits your inbox on a Tuesday morning. $1 trillion.
