Recruiting industry best practices, talent sourcing strategies, candidate relationship management, and insights on building effective recruiting processes — for both in-house talent teams and companies partnering with staffing agencies.
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Who does a recruiter call first when a great QC chemist comes on the market? Honestly, the hiring manager who’s easiest to work with. A strong recruiter hiring manager relationship runs on a real intake call, feedback inside two business days, honest answers about the job, and candidates treated … Read more
Entertainment marketing is the work of selling films, series, music, and live events to audiences, and selling those audiences to brands. Studios and streamers now run more of that second job themselves, so they’re hiring agency-trained people, from brand partnerships leads and branded content producers to creative directors and account leaders who know how to … Read more
A salary offer is competitive when it beats what your best candidate earns today and pays for everything else the job asks of them, from the level and the scope to the office days and the risk of moving. Most offers that feel low aren’t low against the title. They’re low against the ask. By … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Was last year’s hiring any good? Look at who’s still on the payroll. New hire retention is the share of people you hired who are still employed at a set checkpoint, usually 90 days and 12 months, and tracked by source it’s the most honest grade your recruiting gets. … Read more
A motion designer salary in 2026 runs $75,000 to $150,000 depending on level, and federal data backs it up, putting the middle half of the occupation at $75,490 to $139,130 with a $102,030 median. By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 Seventy-five to one-fifty. When I give a client that range for … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 You run a QC lab, nobody in the building recruits for a living, and you just typed “recruitment support” into a search bar. What are you actually asking for? Recruitment support is outside help that takes over some or all of the hiring work a talent acquisition team would … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a growing science company stop borrowing recruiters and hire one? Hire your first internal recruiter when hiring becomes a repeating pattern instead of a run of surprises, meaning the same few roles keep reopening, two or three searches run at once, and a manager is losing days … Read more
A recruitment agency is worth it when the seat costs more sitting empty than the fee costs to fill. On an $85,000 marketing seat, a 20 percent fee works out to about seven weeks of that seat staying open. By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 “Honestly? You’re too expensive.” I have … Read more
An art director salary in 2026 runs about $85,000 to $100,000 on the agency and brand searches I run, against a federal median of $114,850 and a Glassdoor average of $107,994. The gap is mostly which art director you mean. By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 Eighty-five to one hundred thousand. … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your packaging line finished a batch on Tuesday. When does it ship? Batch record review is the quality unit’s check that every production and control record for a batch is complete, correct, and explained, and under FDA rules that check comes before the batch can be released or distributed. … Read more
