Leveling Guide for HR makes hiring in LATAM an easy choice

Introduction

Leveling guides are an excellent tool for H.R. departments looking to prepare a clear roadmap when recruiting talent for their companies. The demand for developers in the market and a lack of technical knowledge can make it difficult to pinpoint the best criteria to recognize tech talent.

LATAM is changing how U.S. companies are Building remote teams by offering a broader talent pool at better rates, ideal time zones, and contractor perks. However, being unprepared can make recognizing talent take longer than intended or, worst, hiring the wrong developer.

Awana's technical recruiters and H.R. professionals created The job leveling matrix for engineers in LATAM to help companies take their first steps toward hiring top talent from the region correctly.

How Awana's leveling guide helps H.R. 

Optimizing an H.R. department's recruitment and hiring processes is essential to navigating LATAM's talent hub. This leveling guide will give you a unique insight into what hard and soft skills you can expect to find in LATAM.

What are developers' career paths like? What responsibility do their seniority and role entail? All questions constipate an essential answer to help ease your expectations when searching for talent.

“Our job leveling matrix is a free resource that allows the company to classify a role, and understand its different professional branches and hierarchies.” - Ana Camila, HR Specialist and Consultant at Awana

H.R. departments can improve their speed and efficiency in finding, hiring, and onboarding candidates for their teams by downloading our Job Leveling Matrix For Engineers in LATAM before they start. Other companies benefit directly from leveling guides when building their tech team, knowing which candidates have leadership duties and which work together to finish projects.

Our leveling guide allows H.R. professionals to narrow their search by improving how they can evaluate their requirements, write efficient job descriptions, and recognize a candidate's skill set when they find one.

What's inside our Job Leveling Matrix for Engineers in LATAM?

You will find what career paths look like for developers in LATAM and what their skill level entails. Not every coding skill leads you down the same road. Tech skills and experience combined make up for where the developer should land in your team responsibility-wise.

Our job leveling matrix for tech talent in LATAM offers three different levels and paths for developers alongside the roles and skills that make up each. You will also learn their hard and soft skills, compensation, years of experience, and how they make decisions in a team setting.

These are the three levels you will find:

1) Primary Levels

Developers at the entry-level of their careers are responsible for fulfilling basic programming tasks. They are mostly considered junior developers but are essential to building tech projects through a team-like mindset.

2) Technical Path

Developers with more knowledge and experience who have gained technical and complex coding skills are the second level our leveling guide explores. These responsibilities include designing software architectures, optimizing code, and introducing new tech to the company's team. They also serve as mentors for entry-level developers on the team.

3) Managerial Path

Tech talent in top-level roles are considered to be on a managerial path, responsible for a project's roadmaps and overseeing its fulfillment. Project manager roles are examples of what constitutes a managerial path role, showing how important their seniority is to ensure everything runs smoothly.

“It is very important that HR teams have a clear job leveling so that they can properly structure internal processes and define the functions, skills, rewards, benefits, and expected results of a specific role. And in the same way, this allows their collaborators to clearly understand the pathways they can take in their own professions and inside a company."

Ana Camila Rosero

HR Specialist and Consultant at Awana

Confidently hiring in LATAM

Awana's Job Leveling Matrix for Engineers in LATAM provides the perfect gateway for H.R. departments looking to broaden their talent network. Vetting developers in LATAM becomes easier once you understand more about the role you seek to close for your company.

Download the job leveling framework here