Nearshore staffing and recruitment · REC
Hire nearshore recruiters who screen candidates while your hiring managers are awake.
Nearshore recruiters are full-cycle recruiters, sourcers and recruiting coordinators based in Latin America who work US hours inside your applicant tracking system. nearshore.now vets them on sourcing skill, screening judgment and English, employs them locally, and your head of people runs the process.
- 5 daysto your first shortlist
- 6–8 hoursof daily overlap with every US time zone
- 40–60%below the cost of an equivalent US hire
- 1 invoiceWe employ. You manage.
What a nearshore recruiter does on your team.
- Sources candidates on LinkedIn, GitHub and your ATS for US and Latin American roles.
- Runs phone screens in English and writes clear notes for hiring managers.
- Schedules interviews across time zones and keeps candidates warm.
- Reports on the funnel in your weekly hiring meeting.
Titles we place
- Technical recruiter
- Full-cycle business recruiter
- Sourcer
- Recruiting coordinator
Skills and tools
- Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, LinkedIn Recruiter
- Boolean and AI-assisted sourcing
- Structured screening and calibrated notes
- Candidate communication in English
How we vet recruiters.
- A live sourcing exercise on one of your real roles.
- A mock phone screen scored for structure and judgment.
- A review of past time-to-fill and offer-acceptance numbers.
- An English interview and reference checks.
Then you interview the three to five who pass. We never place someone you have not met.
Seniority
- Coordinator or sourcer
- One to three years. Sourcing, scheduling, candidate communication.
- Recruiter
- Three or more years full cycle. Owns requisitions end to end.
- Senior recruiter
- Six or more years. Owns hard technical or executive searches.
Why Latin America for recruiters.
Recruiting is a phone job and a scheduling job, and both depend on being awake when candidates and hiring managers are. A recruiter in Bogotá or Mexico City takes the 9 AM screen and the 5 PM debrief. If you are also hiring in Latin America, a local recruiter knows the market, the salaries and the notice periods.
Bogotá and Medellín
The time zone is the whole argument. A Bogotá employee works the complete Eastern and Central business day and six to seven hours of the Pacific day, with no daylight-saving shuffle because Colombia never changes its clocks.
Hire in Colombia MexicoUTC−6Mexico City and Guadalajara
Scale. With about 130 million people and the largest economy in Spanish-speaking Latin America, Mexico has more engineers, accountants and bilingual professionals than any other nearshore country.
Hire in Mexico ArgentinaUTC−3Buenos Aires and Córdoba
English. Argentina has ranked first in Latin America on the EF English Proficiency Index for most of the last decade. In creative and knowledge roles, that shows.
Hire in Argentina Costa RicaUTC−6San José and Heredia
English and service culture. Decades of multinational shared-services centers mean Costa Rican professionals are used to US managers, US processes and US customers.
Hire in Costa RicaWhen it fits, and when it doesn't.
A good fit when
- You have more open roles than your people team can run.
- You are building a Latin American team and want a recruiter who knows the market.
Not the right tool when
- You need one executive search. A retained firm fits that better.
Questions about nearshore recruiters.
Related roles
01Can a nearshore recruiter hire for US-based roles?
Yes. They source, screen and schedule in your ATS for any location. US candidates hear a fluent recruiter on a US number during US hours.
02Do they use our ATS?
Yes. Everything stays in your system with your data and your process.
03Do you place recruiting coordinators?
Yes. Coordinators are one of the most common nearshore hires, because scheduling across time zones is easier from inside those time zones.
04Can I hire a nearshore recruiter through staffing or recruitment?
Either. With nearshore staffing, nearshore.now employs the recruiter in their country and you pay a flat monthly fee. With nearshore recruitment, we run the same search and vetting, and you hire the recruiter directly for a one-time fee.
Your nearshore recruiter could start next month.
Twenty minutes with us. No commitment. We’ll tell you if nearshore is right for the role.
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