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 Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Direct sourcing fills contingent roles from a private talent pool a company already owns, usually alumni, retirees, and silver-medalist applicants, while a staffing agency recruits people the company has no relationship with. Neither one is a program by itself. The decision worth your time is which requisitions go down … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Most mid-market contingent programs run well on three to six staffing suppliers per job family, not three to six across the whole company. The number is set by how much requisition flow each supplier gets, not by headcount or total spend. Fourteen years of recruiting, thirteen of them at … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the best product manager staffing agency in 2026 for companies that need a W-2 contractor, a documented PM screening process, and a 17-day average fill time. Insight Global handles multi-role contract programs at enterprise scale. Kforce brings 60+ years of IT staffing and documented PM practice … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Contract staffing, staff augmentation, and temporary staffing describe the same arrangement in three sales vocabularies, where an agency employs the worker and you direct the day-to-day work. What actually differs is the unit you are buying. A role, capacity, or hours. Those three all sit at staff level. For … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Contract staffing is an arrangement where a staffing agency hires a worker onto its own W-2 payroll and assigns that person to a client company for a defined term, usually three to eighteen months. The agency carries payroll, taxes, workers’ compensation, and unemployment. You direct the work … Read more
KORE1 ranks #1 among Databricks recruiting firms for 2026 on the Placement Authority Score, with a dedicated Databricks engineer staffing practice, credential verification through Databricks Academy badge URLs, and a 17-day average time-to-hire. Harnham ranks #2 for data-only permanent search. Kforce ranks #3 for Fortune 500 enterprise scale. Rankings are built from independently sourced Clutch, … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the top-scoring IT consulting firm in 2026 on the Placement Authority Score (8.66/10), leading all 7 firms in recruiter quality, placement retention, and verified review ratings. Accenture leads for enterprise-scale transformation (8.64). Deloitte leads for regulated industries (8.41). Rankings use a 7-factor methodology weighted toward talent quality and … 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
KORE1 ranks first among fractional CISO companies in 2026, placing security executives directly on your team as W-2 contractors with a 17-day median time to first qualified candidate. SideChannel is the strongest dedicated vCISO firm for mid-market companies that want former-CISO-only leadership. FRSecure leads on verified Clutch reviews among pure cybersecurity consulting firms, and Integris … Read more
KORE1 ranks first among cybersecurity recruiting firms for startups in 2026, scoring 8.38/10 on the Placement Authority Score for its 17-day average time-to-hire, 92% retention rate, and documented AI sourcing. Betts Recruiting leads for VC-backed GTM hiring. CyberSN is the cybersecurity-only specialist. Rankings use 7 independently verified criteria. No provider paid for placement. Quick Picks … Read more
