The people you're looking for aren't always where you look.

McMurry & Hughes is an outside recruiting desk. When a role is hard to fill, we research the market beyond the places you usually search, show you what is there, and then recruit for you in it.

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Inside your usual search Outside it
Based in San José · Costa Rica Hiring for Germany · Europe · North America Looking for a job? Go to the jobs page
01The problemWhat a usual search misses

No company sees the whole market.

Most searches cover the city, the job boards and the agencies you already know. For a hard role, the right person is often just outside them.

So the same names come back, and every day the role stays open costs money.

Work out what yours costs
Your search 6 Outside it 0
Inside your usual search Outside it An illustration, not a count
02 How it works Research · snapshot · recruit

We recruit outside the market you already search.

We work on one role at a time, in three stages. You see what we found before you decide anything.

  1. 01

    We research the market

    We find out where people who could do your role actually work, including cities, countries and language groups you do not usually search. We count them, and we write down what we could not find out.

  2. 02

    We send you a market snapshot

    One page for one role: how many people could do the job outside your usual search, where they are, and what we do not know. Free, before you commit, and yours to keep. If you want more depth before deciding, a full market map is priced per role.

  3. 03

    We find, interview and introduce

    If you want to go ahead, we contact those people ourselves, interview them against your standard in the language the role needs, and introduce the ones worth meeting, with a list of who we ruled out and why.

See an example map
03 Who we can help Five conditions

We are useful to a narrow kind of company.

All five need to be true. If the last one is not true yet, we cannot help with this role, and we would rather tell you here than after weeks of searching. You are still welcome to write: we will tell you what would need to change.

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The five conditions
01You hire repeatedlyThe same or similar roles, over a year or more.
02You have a clear standardYou would rather leave a role open than hire the wrong person.
03Your own market is small for the roleLocation, language, sector or pay leaves only a few people near you who could do it.
04You have no large recruiting teamHiring is often run by founders and line managers.
05You can employ someone who is not localThis one is essential. You need a company entity, an employer of record or a contractor arrangement already in place. We do not provide any of these.
04 What you receive Working documents, in writing

Everything we do arrives in writing.

A market snapshot before you commit to anything, a short proposal if you want to go ahead, and a written summary of every person we introduce.

Document 01

The market snapshot

One page: who could do your role, how many there are and where, with what we could not measure on the same page.

One role · datedFree · before you commit
Document 02

The proposal

What we will do, what we will not do, and what we still do not know about your market.

Six pagesNamed sender
Document 03

The candidate summary

Written by whoever did the interview. What we verified, what we did not, and who we ruled out.

Per shortlistRuled out, listed
05 Our record Counted from 29 placement records · Jan 2023 – Jul 2026

One client. Twenty hires. Nine kinds of job. And twenty of our twenty-nine recorded placements.

20
Hires for one client since 2023
9
Job families for that client
7
Times one role was filled again
20/29
Share of all our recorded placements
The concentration, drawn

Filled: one client. Outlined: the other seven companies, five of which appear once.

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Valencia · Sep
06 The people Example profiles · names follow with consent

See the person before the name.

Role, experience, place and pay first. The name follows when they agree to talk.

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07 Services One-off · ongoing · subscription

Start with what you need.

Recruiting is where most people start. Behind it are the other McMurry & Hughes companies: research, PCRecruiter systems and clean data. Use one, combine a few, or keep them running monthly.

Who are you?

Every setup can be changed. On the services page you can build your own from the same blocks and send it to us.

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We'll show you the market before we ask you for anything.

  1. 01

    You write to us

    Tell us one role and where it is based. We ask one question back: can you employ someone who is not local?

  2. 02

    We send a snapshot

    If we can take the role on: one page for it, free, before you commit. You keep it whether or not we work together.

  3. 03

    We agree the brief

    If you want to go ahead: your standard, the pay, the process, and who decides.

  4. 04

    You meet people

    We introduce the people worth meeting, with notes from our interviews and a list of who we ruled out.

Tell us the role Or write to tino@mcmurry-hughes.com