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, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 An EDI analyst job description should name your ERP, your translator platform, the X12 or EDIFACT version your partners require, and the trading partners the hire inherits. Base bands run $60,000 to $175,000 in 2026, and where you land in that spread is decided by scope, not … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 EDI analyst interview questions in 2026 should test acknowledgment reasoning, ASN accuracy against the physical shipment, partner-spec deviation handling, and one real production failure, not definitions of X12 transaction set numbers. Most published question lists stop at the definitions. Nobody has ever failed a definition. The better … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Vetting a staffing agency comes down to four things a firm either can or cannot produce on request, a named recruiter, a 12-month retention rate, worker classification paperwork, and a written conversion fee schedule. Everything a sales team brings to the first meeting is optional. Those four … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 The staff augmentation practices that decide an engagement all happen before the contractor writes a line of code: scope by deliverable, provision access ahead of day one, keep direction inside your own management chain, and cap tenure. Everything after that is ordinary management, and ordinary management is … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Workday HCM consultant job description should name the tenant size, the live modules, which Workday Pro certification area the work falls in, and the release cycle the hire inherits. Base bands run $100,000 to $175,000 in 2026 depending on where the seat lands. There is a … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 Workday HCM consultant interview questions in 2026 should test staffing-model judgment, effective-dated data corrections, security-group reasoning, and one real open-enrollment or payroll failure, not module definitions any candidate can recite. The training-site question banks all test recall. Recall is the cheapest part of this hire. What you … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An ERP implementation needs seven filled seats, and only three of them are full-time. Executive sponsor, project manager, solution architect, data lead, one process owner per in-scope area, a test owner, and the administrator who runs the system after go-live. Everything else on the org chart is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an AI agent engineer in 2026 costs roughly $150,000 at the median and north of $270,000 at the 75th percentile, and the deciding skill is production reliability, not model knowledge. The demo is never the hard part. Keeping the thing correct on the four hundredth run … Read more
IT staff augmentation is contract labor you direct yourself. How the model works, the four shapes it takes, what a bill rate is made of, and the co-employment rules vendors leave out.
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 The 2026 contract labor market gives buyers deeper candidate pools and less pricing power than 2025 did. Temporary employment has climbed seven straight months while total payrolls went flat, bill rates turned upward in February, and the federal rulebook on who counts as a contractor is being … Read more
