About MrCareerz

Two South Africans who saw how good the talent at home is, and how little access it gets.

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

The story

Marco worked remotely for a Canadian marketing agency from South Africa, earning roughly three times what he made locally. Stefan runs his own agency serving US clients with a South African team. Different companies, same observation.

The South African talent we worked alongside was every bit as ambitious, as skilled and as professionally rigorous as the talent in any other market we'd seen. The work they did was the work the global market was paying premium prices for. But the access wasn't there. Most South Africans never got the chance to even apply for the kind of roles that would change their financial situation.

So we built MrCareerz.

We're not a job board and we're not a traditional recruitment agency. We're a sourcing partner. Our job is to bring proven South African talent to remote teams in the US, the UK and Europe, and to make sure both sides get a fair deal.

For South Africans: real careers, real pay, real growth, working from home alongside companies that value the work.

For hiring teams: interview-ready candidates, each assessed on spoken English (C1/C2), role experience, salary fit and working hours before you see them, and a sourcing team that sends you a decision, not a CV pile.

What we want to be true

In five years we want MrCareerz to be the trusted sourcing partner for a hundred or more teams in the US, the UK and Europe hiring South African talent. Every placement a career-changing opportunity for the candidate and a high-confidence hire for the client. The default answer for any team asking "how do we hire from South Africa?"

That's the work.

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

Sixty seconds now, a 15-minute intro call at a time that suits you, your first batch within 10 days of it. Free to look; one fee, only when you hire.