IT hiring strategies, technology talent acquisition guides, and practical advice for employers recruiting software engineers, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity analysts, and other in-demand IT professionals.
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Extend a contractor’s contract when the work continues but conversion is blocked, convert when the work is permanent and you’d rehire the person tomorrow, and release them once either the work or the fit has run out. Two facts settle nearly every contractor contract extension question. Both … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Most companies hiring after layoffs rebuild with contract talent first, because contractors restore capacity in weeks without betting a permanent headcount line on demand that hasn’t proven itself yet. Permanent reqs come back later, once the work has shown up two quarters in a row. Run in that order, … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 To interview contract developers and engineers, build a short process around the statement of work and use it to answer one question, whether this person can deliver that scope in your environment starting in week one. Two conversations usually settle it, a technical discussion with the engineer they will … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A Golang developer job description should say what the Go code actually does, whether engineers from Java or Python can learn Go on the job, what Kubernetes means in your shop, and the pay band. For mid-level and senior Go roles, that band runs roughly $125,000 to $190,000 base. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a frontend developer in 2026, decide what the seat owns before you pick a framework, budget $95,000 to $170,000 in base salary for mid-level to senior talent, and screen with a pull request review instead of a portfolio. Portfolios and finished take-homes got cheap once … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A generative AI engineer job description covers an engineer who builds product features on foundation models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, owning retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and inference cost, usually without training a model from scratch. Most postings under that title in 2026 describe somebody else. The template … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The Java developer job descriptions that fill in 2026 state the JDK version and Spring Boot generation the team runs, say whether the hire builds new services or maintains existing ones, and post a salary range. Most templates ranking for this search skip all three. Two of those … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Good iOS developer job descriptions in 2026 spend their words on the app: its SwiftUI and UIKit split, the oldest iOS version it supports, the Apple frameworks it relies on, and who handles App Review. Swift, Xcode, and “five years of experience” show up on every iOS … Read more
A Splunk Engineer job description has to answer one question before any bullet points get written. Does this person own the platform, or do they just search it? Those are two different jobs with two different salary bands, and most postings blur them into one req, which is why so many Splunk searches stall at … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring a Splunk engineer means picking one of three different jobs first, security engineer, observability engineer, or platform admin, because pay bands swing from roughly $99,000 to $153,000 depending on which one you actually post. That’s before certifications, before SPL fluency, before any of it. Get the … Read more
