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Contract Lab and QC Staffing Request Form Template

One page that tells a staffing firm the bench, the rules and the shift before any resume.

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A QC lab manager in safety glasses fills in a staffing request form on a clipboard at a bench beside liquid chromatography instruments

A lab staffing request should name methods and instruments, sample matrix, GMP or GLP, shift, gowning, start date and duration, not just the job title. This one-page template captures all of it, with KORE1 reference values.

Last updated: November 1, 2026

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1

What would you send a staffing firm if a QC seat opened tomorrow? If the answer is a job title and a date, the firm has to guess the rest.

And guessing is expensive. “QC Analyst II” could mean HPLC on a stability bench or plating samples in a cleanroom, and those two people rarely apply for each other’s jobs. You can’t judge the first resume against a bench nobody described. Nobody can.

So send the bench. This is the form I’d want from any lab manager asking me for laboratory staffing or quality control staffing, and it sits inside our wider life sciences staffing work on contract staffing terms. The reference values come from 54 KORE1 lab and QC contract placements, with a 193-day median assignment and a middle-half bill range of $33 to $56 an hour, so you can put real numbers on the form before anyone quotes you.

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    The form

    The Staffing Request Form, Field by Field

    Five parts and thirteen fields, each with why it matters and an example entry. A filled square marks the five that decide the first resume.

    Staffing request

    Contract lab and QC seat

    Decides the first resume

    Sharpens the search

    The seatWho is this person in the words your own team uses?
    Part 1, The seat, each field with why it matters and an example entry
    FieldWhy it mattersExample entry
    Seat title and levelA title only starts the conversation, because one title can cover very different benches.QC Analyst II, stability
    Site and lab areaThe commute decides who says yes, and the lab area decides what else on this form applies.Irvine, QC stability lab
    Who approves the resumeA named person gets a resume read and answered faster than a shared inbox does.QC manager, plus one senior analyst
    The benchWhat will they run, on which instrument, in which sample?
    Part 2, The bench, each field with why it matters and an example entry
    FieldWhy it mattersExample entry
    Methods and instrumentsRunning a method and having watched it run are two different resumes.HPLC with Empower, dissolution, Karl Fischer
    Sample matrixPrepping a suspension is not the same job as prepping a clean API solution.Finished tablets and stability pulls

    Methods requested, sample seat

    Method grid. A sample QC analyst seat with one mark per method, showing which methods the person must run alone on day one, which they can learn on site and which are not on this bench.
    HPLC
    UPLC
    LC-MS
    GC
    Dissolution
    Karl Fischer
    UV-Vis
    FTIR
    TOC
    Micro plating
    Runs it alone on day oneMarkedNot markedNot markedNot markedMarkedMarkedNot markedNot markedNot markedNot marked
    Can learn it hereNot markedMarkedNot markedNot markedNot markedNot markedMarkedMarkedNot markedNot marked
    Not on this benchNot markedNot markedMarkedMarkedNot markedNot markedNot markedNot markedMarkedMarked
    The rulesWhich rulebook applies and what must happen before bench work?
    Part 3, The rules, each field with why it matters and an example entry
    FieldWhy it mattersExample entry
    GMP or GLPThey are separate rulebooks, and the answer changes the records, the training and the people who fit.GMP, commercial release testing
    GowningIt sets who can walk into the area, and how long it takes before they can.ISO 7 gowning, qualified on site before area entry
    Training before bench workA GMP seat needs training in the particular operations the person performs, so plan for it.SOPs read and trainer named before the first sample
    The scheduleWhen do they work, when do they start and how long does it last?
    Part 4, The schedule, each field with why it matters and an example entry
    FieldWhy it mattersExample entry
    ShiftA second-shift seat narrows the list before anyone looks at a method.Second shift, Tuesday to Saturday
    Start dateA date only counts if a trainer and a gowning slot are booked for it.First Monday next month, gowning slot booked
    DurationA length tells a candidate what they are leaving a job for. No idea yet? Start with the median.193 days, the KORE1 lab and QC median
    The dealWhat kind of seat is it and what does the budget look like?
    Part 5, The deal, each field with why it matters and an example entry
    FieldWhy it mattersExample entry
    Contract or contract-to-hireIt changes who says yes. A KORE1 contractor can convert at no fee after 1,040 hours.Contract-to-hire, review at 1,040 hours
    Budget referenceA range saves a round of resumes you could never have approved.$33 to $56 an hour, median $40

    The example entries show the level of detail, so replace them with your own. The dollar and day values are KORE1 reference figures as of October 2026, not a quote.

    The method grid is the part I’d fill in first. Mark what the person must run alone on day one, what you’re willing to teach and what isn’t on this bench at all, then swap my ten methods for your own, because a grid full of the wrong methods tells a recruiter nothing. Writing the seat itself? Start with the QC analyst job description template, because a job description sells the seat to a candidate and this form briefs the recruiter.

    A gloved hand sets a glass vial into an autosampler tray beside a clipboard on a clean lab bench

    The filled squares

    Which Five Fields Decide Whether the First Resume Fits?

    Methods and instruments, GMP or GLP, shift, gowning and start date. Get these five right and the first resume can actually be judged.

    • Methods and instruments. Say whether the person runs the method or supports it, and name the software too. HPLC with Empower is a narrower search than HPLC. That’s the point. Your lab records already have to state each method used under 21 CFR 211.194, so the list exists somewhere.
    • GMP or GLP. Separate rulebooks. 21 CFR Part 58 covers nonclinical laboratory studies, while Part 211 covers making and holding finished drugs. Good resumes often show one and not the other, so read up on GLP vs GMP experience before you call them interchangeable.
    • Shift. Second shift removes people from the list before anyone checks a method. Better to learn that now. Not at the offer.
    • Gowning. A lab coat and glasses is one conversation, while full cleanroom gowning with a qualification step is another, and some very good chemists would rather keep out of the gown for the rest of their careers. For an aseptic area, FDA’s aseptic processing guidance, which is nonbinding, says training should come before an individual enters. Ask early.
    • Start date. 21 CFR 211.25 requires training in “the particular operations that the employee performs,” so on a GMP seat the first day isn’t the first sample. Write the date you can receive someone, with the trainer booked. The training records a GMP contractor needs shape that date too.

    The other eight fields sharpen the search. These five sort it.

    193 days

    median KORE1 lab and QC contract assignment, n=54

    $33 to $56

    middle half of hourly bill rates for those placements, median $40

    3 days

    median from offer to start across all KORE1 roles, n=1,997

    1,040 hours

    after which a KORE1 contractor can convert to your team at no fee

    Reference values

    Budget and Duration Reference Values for the Form

    “What is your rate?” I get that one more than any other, and it deserves a number. KORE1 lab and QC contract seats bill a median $40 an hour, and the middle half sit between $33 and $56.

    Put that range on the form as a reference, then let the bench move it, because an LC-MS method specialist on second shift won’t sit where a general lab tech on days does, and a firm that can see your range can say so before the resumes arrive. Want your own numbers? The lab and QC cost calculator runs them by seat and length.

    What a full-time contract seat bills
    Total bill at the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile hourly rate for a 3-month and a 6-month contract at 40 hours a week
    LengthAt $33At $40At $56
    3 months520 hours$17,160$20,800$29,120
    6 months1,040 hours$34,320$41,600$58,240

    Hourly bill rate times hours at 40 hours a week, a reference and not a quote. Source is KORE1 placement data from 2019 to 2026 for the life sciences, lab and QC family, n=54 W2 contract placements, 14 of them since 2022 with the same $40 median. Anomalies and payroll-service deals are excluded. The full dataset is 79% California. This family isn’t a cell in the Contract Rate Index, which covers IT, ERP, data, engineering and accounting. See lab and QC bill rates for more on the range.

    “This is just a hiring manager with a budget, going outside and hiring something and saying, I have this to get done and I need you to do it.”

    Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1

    That’s the whole job of this form, really. Say what needs doing. Say what you have to spend. Your procurement and HR steps still apply, so run it past them the way you would any other request.

    A contract QC analyst pulls on a white lab gown beside a glass door before entering a laboratory

    Field twelve

    Contract or Contract-to-Hire on a Lab Staffing Request?

    Pick contract when the work has an end, like a release backlog or a stability pull that needs covering. Pick contract-to-hire when the seat will outlast the project and you want to watch someone run your methods before you make an offer.

    The arithmetic is friendly here. A KORE1 contractor can convert to your team at no fee after 1,040 hours, which is 26 weeks at 40 hours a week, and the median lab and QC contract runs 193 days, about 27 and a half weeks. So the typical assignment reaches the conversion line right around the time it would end. Handy.

    Decide on the form anyway. Somebody who wants a permanent job and somebody who wants six months of varied work are different people, they answer the first call differently, and a recruiter who knows which one you need won’t waste an afternoon of either. If you’re unsure, write contract-to-hire and say why, because how contract-to-hire works is worth ten minutes before anyone interviews.

    After you send it

    What Happens After You Send the Request?

    Nothing mysterious. Four steps. In order.

    1. I read the bench first. Methods, rulebook and shift come before the title, because that’s where the search actually starts.
    2. I call you about the blanks. A blank field is fine. It just means a short phone call before the search and not a wrong resume after it. The longer version is what a recruiter needs from a hiring manager.
    3. We screen against your form. A candidate who has run your method on your shift goes ahead of one whose resume merely mentions it.
    4. Offer, then start. The KORE1 median from offer to start is 3 days across all roles (n=1,997), but that’s a median and not a promise, and your own GMP training, gowning slot and trainer’s calendar set the real first day.

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      Three Pages That Go With This Form

      Questions

      What Lab Managers Ask

      What information should I give a staffing agency to fill a contract QC analyst role fast?

      Give the bench, not just the title, which means methods and instruments, sample matrix, GMP or GLP, shift, gowning, start date, duration and contract or contract-to-hire. Speed comes from nobody having to ask twice.

      How can I tell whether an agency can really find QC analysts with HPLC and LC-MS experience?

      Listen to what they ask you back. A firm that knows the work asks about the instrument, the software, the matrix and whether the person develops methods or only runs them. If the first question is the bill rate, keep looking.

      What should I budget for a contract lab or QC analyst?

      $33 to $56 an hour is the middle half of KORE1 lab and QC bill rates, with a $40 median across 54 W2 contract placements. Three months at those rates comes to $17,160 to $29,120 at 40 hours a week. Treat it as a reference, because method depth, shift and metro all move the number, and 79% of the full KORE1 dataset is California.

      How long do contract lab and QC assignments usually last?

      193 days is the KORE1 median, a little over six months. Use it as the default if you don’t know yet.

      Can a contract lab tech convert to a full-time employee?

      Yes, and with KORE1 there’s no conversion fee after 1,040 hours, which is 26 weeks at 40 hours a week. Mark the seat contract-to-hire on the form if that’s the plan, so candidates hear it on the first call.

      About the author

      Dave Manchester has spent 16 years recruiting scientific talent. He launched and led KORE1’s Scientific Division as Director of Scientific and is now back with KORE1 as a consultant, partnering with small and mid-sized pharmaceutical companies, contract manufacturers and quality departments to hire QC, QA and laboratory talent. His author page lists everything he writes for KORE1.

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