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10 years. 1,000+ placements. 25,000+ candidates. Shortlist in 10 days.

AI agentic sourcing amplifies our reach. STAR interviews validate each finalist. Human curation delivers the shortlist. No marketplace algorithm. No manual scouting. A replicable protocol.

10
Years
1,000+
Placements
25,000+
Candidates
+16
Markets
40–60%
Cost savings
90 days
Guarantee
2016 → 2026

Not a startup. Not a marketplace pivot. A boutique operation that has been placing LatAm talent with foreign companies for a full decade.

2016

SelectionBook founded in Mexico City

Pamela Herrera launches the operation focused on placing LatAm talent with transnationals.

2018

First US client

First cross-border placement into a US-headquartered scale-up. The nearshore thesis proves out.

2020

100+ placements milestone

Team crosses the 100-placement mark. Remote work goes global; nearshore demand accelerates.

2022

Expansion to the Canadian market

Compliance stack extended to cover PIPEDA and CASL. Bilingual buying flow (en-us + en-ca) live.

2024

Launch of proprietary AI agentic sourcing

AI agents amplify our reach into passive-candidate pools while the human team owns final curation.

2026

NearTalent LatAm brand launch

1,000+ placements. 25,000+ pre-screened candidates. A US-primary brand for the US-primary customer.

Two operators. One decade. On LinkedIn.
Pamela Herrera — Co-Founder & Chief Talent Officer

Pamela Herrera

Founder & Chief Talent Officer

15+ years in talent for transnationals. Led talent operations at TuHacia during its unicorn consolidation (100+ hires/month). Based in Mexico City.

LinkedIn
Agustín Tejera — Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer

Agustín Tejera

Partner & Chief Growth Officer

15 years in agencies as VP/CSO/CMO/Creative VP at Havas, IPG, WPP, and VML. Based in Madrid.

LinkedIn
Six jurisdictions. Six frameworks. Handled.

Cross-border hiring lives or dies on compliance. Here are the six frameworks we operate under — enumerated, not hand-waved.

IRS
US federal tax withholding rules
1099
US independent contractor reporting
W-8BEN
Foreign contractor tax certification
PIPEDA
Canadian personal data protection
CASL
Canadian anti-spam legislation
LFPDPPP
Mexican data protection law
The thesis

US scale-ups keep hitting the same wall: the LatAm engineering, marketing, creative and data talent they need is real, senior, and available — but not visible from US job boards, and not reachable through generic remote-work marketplaces. The candidates who show up in a marketplace search are not the same candidates a well-run outbound process would land.

There's a gap between two extremes. Algorithmic marketplaces optimize for pool size and self-service filtering — great for volume roles, weak for critical hires. Purely manual boutique recruiting optimizes for craft but bottlenecks on human bandwidth — great for one hire at a time, weak at replicable throughput. Both leave money on the table.

NearTalent sits between them. AI agents amplify our sourcing — reaching into passive-candidate pools that manual outbound can't scan. STAR-framework interviews validate every finalist — because structured screening beats casual chats when you're hiring remotely across a border. A human curator delivers the shortlist — because the last mile of judgment doesn't automate well, and our clients are paying for that judgment. That's the whole product.

Shortlist in 10 business days

Tell us the role. We come back with 3–5 curated finalists in 10 business days. Hired in 3 weeks. 90-day guarantee.

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