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The state of talent hiring in LATAM 2026

How talent is hired today in Latin America: trends, common challenges and the growing role of evidence-based assessment. A report based on aggregated data.

7 min read By Equipo Kokoro · Updated June 2026

🔴 Gated draft (GATE-DATA). Structure ready. No figure is published without internal validation and a traceable source; no individual client data is exposed. Sign-off: internal validation.

Latin America selects talent in a particular context: high application volume, strong country-level job portals and, increasingly, AI-polished resumes. This report gathers what we see about how talent is selected in the region today.

How selection works today in LATAM

(To develop with validated data: application volume, portal usage, weight of the resume.)

The most common pain points

(To develop: manual screening, inconsistency across recruiters, AI-inflated resumes.)

The growing role of evidence-based assessment

(To develop: how assessed evidence is gaining ground; without overpromising.)

What’s coming

(To develop: trends; close with guide download and link to /en/science.)

Method note: this report is the kind of content that builds authority and links, but only if each figure holds up to scrutiny. Until there is validated data, it stays in draft.

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