Great hires aren't found.They're formulated.
Every element of a great hire, combined in one method and run by a highly trained talent team. Nobody reaches your team without clearing every single one.
Every filter a candidate clears before you meet them.
No one reaches you by accident. Each filter removes one more way a hire can go wrong.
Before the search
Discovery Call
We learn your business and where the right person would change it.
Role Mapping Call
We map the role: tasks, tools, reporting line, pay range and who interviews.
Agreement
You sign. The search starts the same day.
The search
Open call across our network
Talent from across Latin America.
English Gate
An English test, before any résumé is opened.
Dual Read
Every résumé read by AI, then by an expert.
Talent Interview
Skills, character and team fit, in English.
Criteria Battery
UCAT, English skills, personality and your role.
Shortlist
Only candidates who cleared every filter.
Your decision
Your interviews
Your account manager in the room, and a debrief on every candidate.
Your decision
You tell us who. We handle the offer.
Day One
Setup, team introductions and onboarding with our people team. Training as your role needs it.
The periodic table of a great hire.
Role Test · The filters
Built for your role. Architects prove architecture.
Every element is public. How we weigh them stays in the lab.
Where the Formula earns its name.
Interviewed by people who do this for a living.
Every candidate who passes the reads sits down with our highly trained talent team: university-educated specialists with deep recruiting experience. They probe how candidates organize a packed day, how they recover when a project goes wrong, and how their colleagues would describe them. Skills get someone in the door. Character decides whether they make your team better.
The speed of AI.
The judgment of experts. Our AI reads every résumé against your Role Map: consistent, tireless, nothing skipped. Then our specialists read it again for what no algorithm can weigh: the career path, the problems solved, the ambition behind the page. Every candidate gets both reads.
An in-depth assessment, built around your role.
Before anyone reaches your shortlist, they sit a full battery: the UCAT intelligence test, separate reading, writing and listening tests, a personality test, and a test designed for your role. We read every result together, so one strong score never hides a weak one.
No surprises left for later.
What usually ends a hire is rarely skill. It is the hours, the holidays, the pay or the real scope of the job. We settle all of it before you meet anyone, with a pay range set from the market. If something doesn't work for a candidate, it ends with us, not on your team.
You interview.
We debrief. You decide. You only meet the shortlist. Your account manager joins every interview: the same person you will work with long after the hire. After each one, you review the candidate's performance together, so you never decide alone.
The Formula doesn't stop at the offer.
Every hire starts with a full onboarding led by our people team: setup and introductions to their new teammates. Training comes on top, shaped to your needs and the role. Strong finalists you didn't choose stay on our Bench, already tested, so your next hire starts ahead.
Every "what if" that keeps owners from hiring. Answered before you meet anyone.
There are other ways to hire. None of them does all of this.
| Hiring on your own | A typical agency | A talent marketplace | The OfficeTwo Formula | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The role is mapped with you before the search | If you find the time | A quick intake form | You write the post | Role Mapping Call |
| English proven before you see a résumé | Not part of it | Usually one screening call | Self-reported | Tested at every stage |
| Every résumé read by AI and by an expert | You read them all | A recruiter skims | An algorithm ranks | Both, every time |
| Tests built for your exact role | Not part of it | Generic tests, if any | Platform badges | A full battery per role |
| Character and team fit assessed | Your gut | Not part of it | Not part of it | Every interview, plus a personality test |
| Hours, holidays and pay settled upfront | At the offer | At the offer | You negotiate it | Before you meet them |
| Someone in your interviews with you | Not part of it | Not part of it | Not part of it | Your account manager |
| Onboarding from day one | On you | On you | On you | Setup, onboarding and team intros |
| A bench ready for your next hire | Not part of it | Starts from zero | Starts from zero | The Bench |
| Someone accountable after the hire | You | Usually ends at placement | Not part of it | Your account manager |
Typical practices by category. Individual providers vary.
Nearshore vs offshore for U.S. owners.
Nearshore vs offshore comes down to hours and how the work runs. An offshore team often starts its day when yours ends. Nearshore teams work close to your time zone, with real overlap across U.S. hours. We build nearshore teams in Latin America: our Buenos Aires office, your Second Office, plus talent working remote across the region.
Many nearshore outsourcing companies send one contractor at a time. We select every person through The OfficeTwo Formula and build them into your team. You run the work. See the nearshore vs offshore guide and pricing.
What is nearshoring?
Nearshoring means building part of your team in a nearby country with overlapping hours, instead of one on the other side of the world. Read more in what is nearshoring.
Where the Formula runs
- Construction office talent, including the construction estimator
- Architecture and engineering talent, including the BIM coordinator
- Fabricated metal talent, including the steel detailer
Choose where your team works. The system stays the same.
Our Buenos Aires office
Your Second Office. Open every day as a coworking space for your team, with local support.
Across Latin America
Talent selected through the same Formula and supported by the same account manager, working from home on U.S. hours.
You run the work. We carry the rest.
We handle
- Recruiting and selection through the Formula
- Payments and HR
- Onboarding, and training when the role needs it
- Our Buenos Aires office space
- Feedback, concerns and new roles through one account manager
- Replacement at no additional cost
You keep
- Assigning the tasks
- Directing the daily work
- The final hiring decision
- Extra or specialized equipment you request
Questions owners ask about the Formula.
Tell us about your team. We'll run the Formula.
Hire LatAm talent the same way every time. It starts with the first element: a Discovery Call about your business and the hire that would change it.