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Proven South African talent for remote teams

Hire proven South African talent within 10 days.

Native business English, working your hours, at around half of what a US hire costs.

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Tell us the role. Meet candidates within 10 days.
Free to look. A one-time hiring fee, paid only when you hire. No sales call: we confirm the role by email and send a sample profile.
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companies hiring South African talent through us
0%
of the briefs we take on end in a hire
10 days
from signed brief to your first batch of interview-ready candidates
Where we're strongest

Communication-heavy roles, filled by people who communicate well.

We go deep on the roles where clear English and cultural fit decide whether a remote hire works.

Customer Success
Onboarding, renewals, account health
Support
Tier 1–2, chat, email, voice
Sales support & SDR
Pipeline, outreach, CRM hygiene
Operations
Process, vendors, reporting
Executive assistants
Founder and leadership support
Marketing ops
Media buyers, content strategists
How it works

Briefed Monday. Interviewing the following week.

No CV piles and no endless inbox. Every candidate is sourced, screened and ranked before they reach you. You make decisions, not shortlists.

01

Tell us the role

The role, must-haves, salary band and working hours. Two minutes. We confirm it back by email; no call unless you want one.

02

We source and screen

Four checks before anyone reaches you:

Profile and salary screen
Match against your brief
English fluency, C1/C2
60-second intro video
03

Review the shortlist

Three or more interview-ready candidates on a private page, each with their video, skills and a written note on why they fit. Decide in five minutes.

04

Interview and hire

Pick who you want to meet. We coordinate the calls and share feedback. If a hire doesn't work out in the first 90 days, we replace them at no extra fee.

What clients tell us

In their words, not ours.

What hiring teams tell us after their first shortlist.

Case study · legal media company · Austin, Texas
“I have tried no less than five agencies like yours over the last few years and none of them have provided me with this type of talent.”
Founder, legal media company, Austin. Confirmed hire one week after the brief was signed.
“We are taking all 4 in!”
Executive assistant to the founder, after a single group interview
“Need the top 1%.”
CEO of an investment firm, Virginia, replying to our first email. He hired an executive assistant from the first shortlist.
“We look forward to getting started with you. We would like to hire immediately.”
Managing director of an M&A advisory, Miami. When we introduced the candidate, he proposed interview times within two minutes.
“One of the best offshore talent I've seen in a very long time.”
Hiring manager, US client, after reviewing the intro video.
Recent placements
Hiring team
Introductions
Result
Appointment setters
Legal media company, Austin
Within 10 days
Hired ×3
B2B SaaS Account Executive
Sales-automation SaaS, Vancouver
Within 10 days
Hired
Executive Assistant
Investment firm, Virginia
Within 10 days
Hired
Client Success Associate
Legal media company, Austin
Within 10 days
Hired
Appointment setters, second round
Legal media company, Austin
Same week
Hired ×4
Why South Africa

The three things that go wrong offshore don't go wrong here.

Teams that have hired overseas before have usually been burned by the English, the hours, or the churn. South Africa is the market where all three go your way.

“Will the English hold up in front of my clients?”
Yes. It's their first business language.

English is the language of South African business, universities and courts. You hear it yourself in every candidate's intro video before the first interview.

“Will they actually work my hours?”
Yes, without night shifts. See the chart.

South Africa sits at UTC+2: the full working day for the UK and Europe, and five to eight live hours with US teams depending on your time zone and the shift you agree.

“Will they stay, or is this a stepping stone?”
They stay. Your role is the best path from where they are.

Your salary band is two to three times the local equivalent, so the person you hire is not shopping for the next job. Our largest client has hired from every batch since June.

Working-hours overlap with New York
Compare with
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Cape Town works 12:00–20:00 SAST. 5 shared hours, light day-shift with New York.
Working day5 shared hours, light day-shiftTimes in SAST (UTC+2)

Cape Town works 12:00 to 20:00 South African time; New York's working day is 15:00 to 23:00 in the same clock. 5 shared hours, light day-shift.

Candidates for US teams work a light day-shift (roughly 12:00–20:00 SAST), which covers standups, planning and most synchronous work with the East Coast. Central gets one hour less.
How South Africa compares with the Philippines, India and Latin America →
Why MrCareerz

“Can't I just post the job myself?”

You can. A worldwide job post brings hundreds of applicants in a week, and most are wrong for the role. What you pay us for is the screening: we read every profile, check the English and the hours, and send you only the people worth an interview.

Post it yourself
Upwork, Fiverr
Agency recruiter
MrCareerz
Who does the screening
You
You
A recruiter on commission
MrCareerz, every candidate, before you see them
What lands on your desk
200 CVs
Proposals and portfolios
A longlist
Three or more people, each with a video, skills and a written note
English and hours verified
No
No
Sometimes
In screening and on video, before you meet them
Time to first interview
Weeks of your evenings
Days, if you filter hard
3–6 weeks
10 days
What it costs
Your time
Platform fee on every payment
15–25% of first-year salary
One fee, only if you hire
If it doesn't work out
Start again
Start again
Depends on the contract
Replaced free within 90 days
Recruiter and platform fees are typical market figures, not quotes from named competitors.
How a brief becomes a shortlist
Marco van der Merwe, founder · 3 min
Why we built MrCareerz

South Africans are every bit as good as anyone we've worked with. They just don't get the same access.

Marco van der Merwe, Founder
“I got my first international job through a lucky introduction. Same skills, same work ethic, roughly three times the pay, and the only thing that changed was that someone finally saw me. There are thousands of people here waiting on that same piece of luck. MrCareerz is me trying to take the luck out of it.”
Stefan van der Merwe, Co-founder
“My agency's clients are American. My team is South African. I hire exactly the way we're asking our clients to hire, and it's the best staffing decision I've made.”
Cape Town · Founder-led · Every shortlist reviewed personally
Fees

Free to look. One fee, only when you hire.

A one-time hiring fee, quoted in writing before any work starts and paid only when you confirm a hire. Never a percentage of salary, never a monthly platform charge. If the hire doesn't work out in the first 90 days, we replace them at no additional fee.

Included
What the fee covers
Before you hire
Sourcing, screening, intro videos, CVs and a written note on every candidate. Free.
When you hire
One fee per hire, invoiced once. Interview coordination and offer support included.
After you hire
90-day replacement at no extra fee. Hiring more than one? Ask us.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Anything else, email marco@mrcareerz.com and Marco answers personally.

Who employs the candidate, and how do contracts work?
You engage the candidate directly under your own MSA and contractor agreement. Candidates are typically independent contractors, equivalent to 1099-NEC, and complete a W-8BEN on engagement since they aren't US tax residents. Clients who want a W-2-style arrangement use an EOR. We never take a cut of salary.
What happens after I submit the role?
Within one working day you get an email with the role written up as we understood it, the fee in writing, and a sample profile. You confirm or correct the brief by reply, and sourcing starts that day. No call unless you want one.
What if I don't like anyone on the shortlist?
Tell us why, in a line, and we send another round. You pay nothing until you hire, so a shortlist that misses costs you a few minutes, not a fee.
Do I pay anything if I don't hire?
No. Sourcing, screening and the shortlist are free. The hiring fee is invoiced once, when you confirm a hire.
Can I hire several people at once?
Yes. One brief per role, run in parallel. Several clients have hired three or four people through us in the same month. Hiring more than one? Ask us.
Do I have to work with you exclusively?
No. Run your own posting alongside us if you like; the fee only applies to a candidate we introduced.

Tell us the role. Meet interview-ready candidates within 10 days.

Two minutes now, a confirmation email within a working day, your first batch within ten. Free to look; one fee, only when you hire.