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 Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 One Level 2 contract help desk technician costs about $8,500 a month at the national median in 2026, and two Level 1 seats plus a Level 2 lead run about $21,800 a month. Both figures come from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, effective October 16, 2026, billed at … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 A sales engineer job description should state how many account executives the seat supports, the typical deal size and cycle, who owns the demos and proofs of concept, how variable pay is earned, and who the role reports to. Most postings stop at “partner with sales.” Good sales engineers … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An SAP S/4HANA consultant job description should name the S/4HANA objects the seat will own, such as Business Partner, Material Ledger, credit management, or rebate settlement, say how your system got to S/4HANA, and print a closed base range. For mid-level through senior functional consultants in 2026, that range … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 SAP S/4HANA consultant interview questions in 2026 should hand the candidate real conversion artifacts, such as a precheck printout, a downtime window, and a custom report that still reads old tables, then ask what they would do first. Module trivia comes later, if at all. Plenty of … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The best sales engineer interview questions in 2026 put the candidate in a live discovery call with hidden facts, break their demo on purpose, and ask something they can’t know, then score how they recover. Technical depth still matters. It just isn’t the part that loses deals. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A Power BI developer job description should state the storage mode and model size, the license and capacity it runs on, how much Power Query and DAX the role owns, how content reaches production, and a published pay range. Generic BI postings skip all five. The candidates … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A principal product manager job description should name the bet the hire will own, the decisions they can make without anyone’s sign-off, the executive who backs them, and a base range, usually $210,000 to $300,000 in 2026. Leave those out and you have written a senior PM … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 Principal product manager interview questions should test the one thing a senior PM loop never reaches, which is whether the candidate can change decisions they don’t own, in writing and in rooms where nobody reports to them. Product sense still matters. At this level it’s the entry fee, … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Power BI developer interview questions in 2026 should make the candidate predict what a DAX measure returns before anyone runs it, and say where each Power Query step actually executes. Building a chart is the easy part of the job. Reading a model is the hard part, and it … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An IT director job description should state the environment in numbers, which functions sit in-house versus with an MSP, who owns security when there is no CISO, and a base range, usually $160,000 to $210,000 at mid-market companies. Leave those out and you get a list of … Read more
