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The questions companies actually ask us, answered in full and without sales padding. If your question is not here, send it and we will answer it directly.
The questions companies ask before they have hired anyone.
No. You can have people working in Venezuela through an Employer of Record, a staffing assignment or a documented contractor arrangement, without registering a Venezuelan entity. SIVEN clients contract and invoice through the Gracemark group's United States company.
If you have already identified the person, employing them through an Employer of Record or placing them on a staffing assignment is the shortest route, because entity setup is removed from the critical path. If you still need to find them, recruitment runs first and employment follows immediately.
Yes. Single roles are as routine for us as full teams, and the structure is the same either way.
Begin with the work, not the structure: which roles, where, for how long and under whose direction. From those answers the engagement model, the employment route and the cost lines follow.
Yes. We recruit leadership, commercial, technical and operational people for new and expanding local operations, and can employ and pay them while your own structure is still being established.
Different words, genuinely different services. This is how they differ.
Staffing supplies workers who stay on our payroll while working under your direction. Recruitment finds and delivers candidates you hire yourself. SIVEN provides both as separate services, priced separately.
An Employer of Record is an organisation that legally employs a worker on your behalf in a country where you have no entity. You direct the work; the Employer of Record handles the employment arrangement, payroll and employment administration.
If you direct the person's hours, methods and priorities, that is employment whatever the paperwork says, and an Employer of Record is the appropriate route. A contractor arrangement suits genuinely independent specialists delivering a defined scope.
Offshoring moves the location of work while you keep direction of it. Outsourcing hands responsibility for an outcome to a provider who manages the people and the process. The distinction changes the arrangement, the responsibilities and how it is priced.
Yes. Where you want a defined process run and managed rather than staff supplied, we scope the process, the service levels and the responsibilities of each party before proposing it.
Yes. For defined scopes with milestones and deliverables we work under a statement of work, with the responsibilities, acceptance criteria and cost structure agreed in writing up front.
Yes. Executive search is a distinct service for country management, functional leadership and specialist senior roles, run as a mapped search rather than an advertised posting.
For companies deciding where work should be performed.
Venezuela is in the UTC-4 time zone, giving a full working-day overlap with United States Eastern hours, and has a substantial pool of engineering, technical, energy, finance and commercial professionals. Whether it suits your work depends on the specific roles you need.
Venezuela observes UTC-4 year round and does not use daylight saving. It matches United States Eastern time in summer and is one hour ahead of it in winter.
Spanish is the working language of the country, and English-speaking professionals are available, particularly in technical, energy, finance and commercial fields. We screen candidates for the level of English your role genuinely requires rather than assuming it.
Yes, and the engagement can be permanent, fixed-term, temporary, project-based or contractor. We recruit the person if needed, put the arrangement in place, run payroll and provide local support afterwards.
Yes, and it is common work for us. We assess the substance of the engagement, tell you which route it genuinely supports, put the documentation in place and take over payroll and administration.
No. We recruit, employ and support workers across Venezuela, including industrial, energy and field locations outside the major cities.
How pricing is structured and what you receive in a proposal.
Cost is not a single number. Your proposal separates compensation, applicable employer costs, agreed benefits, service fees and any project-specific expenses, quoted against your actual roles, work pattern and location.
We do not publish salary figures, because a number quoted without the role, level, location, work pattern and date behind it is misleading. We give you role-specific guidance when we scope your requirement.
International clients contract with and are invoiced by the Gracemark group's United States company. The contracting party is named in writing before you sign.
You receive an itemised invoice from the Gracemark group's United States company, with compensation, applicable employer costs, agreed benefits, service fees and project expenses shown as separate lines.
Proposals are written for that purpose: itemised cost lines, defined responsibilities for each party and the scope stated in writing rather than implied.
No standard minimum is imposed. The commitment reflects the arrangement you choose, and it is stated in the proposal before you agree to it.
Who we are and what happens after you make contact.
SIVEN is the Venezuela brand of Gracemark, a global workforce business. You work with a local-market team in Venezuela, and you contract and invoice through the group's United States company.
We review what you have sent, come back with the questions needed to scope it accurately, and set out the next steps toward a proposal. We tell you where a different approach would serve you better rather than quoting the first thing you asked for.
At minimum: the roles or the work, the location, the timing and whether the people will work under your direction. Anything else we need, we will ask for.
Yes. The workforce planner produces a suggested approach from your own answers about roles, location and timing, without requiring contact details to view it.
Yes. We support partners delivering for their own clients, with the scope and responsibilities defined around your client relationship.
Register with the Talent Network. SIVEN never charges candidates a fee and does not advertise roles that do not exist.
Send the roles, the location and the timing. We will tell you which route fits the work — including when it is not the one you asked about.