What E-Hunters does

E-Hunters (legal entity Leadersearch S.A.S., NIT 8300651578) is a Bogotá-based HR consulting firm that provides recruitment, selection, training, candidate evaluation, and outplacement services to enterprises in Colombia. It operates as the executive search and HR consulting arm of elempleo.com — the country's largest job portal — and is owned by Casa Editorial El Tiempo, Colombia's dominant media conglomerate. The company's core service portfolio comprises six offerings: Selección y Reclutamiento (headhunting with a 2-week shortlist SLA and guarantee), Preselección de Hojas de Vida, Capacitación (gamified corporate training), Evaluación de Candidatos (assessment centers and psychometric tools), Smart Recruitment (digital selection with social media recruiting), and Outplacement.

The underlying platform architecture is not proprietary technology but rather a services stack layered on top of elempleo.com's candidate and employer database and El Tiempo's content distribution. Communication channels include WhatsApp (for candidate outreach) and Microsoft Teams (for group advisory sessions). The company also offers a Personal Branding course distributed through cursos.eltiempo.com.

E-Hunters operates a dual business model. On the B2B side, enterprise services (selection, training, evaluation, outplacement) are sold on a quote basis through direct enterprise sales and a website quotation funnel. On the B2C side, the elempleo.com platform offers three subscription membership tiers for job seekers — Gold (1-year, personalized advisory), Silver (6-month, group advisory), and Bronze (3-month, basic features) — creating a recurring-revenue layer alongside the professional services book. The company is regulated under Colombia's Ministry of Labor (Resolution 000191 of 2014) as a linked provider in the Public Employment Service network. Founded around 2002 (firmographic source) — with one alternative source citing 2009 — E-Hunters has 20+ years of operating history in the Colombian market. The 1,001–5,000 employee headcount band reflects the broader elempleo.com / Casa Editorial El Tiempo group rather than the E-Hunters entity itself.

Name

E-Hunters

Legal name

Leadersearch S.A.S.

Website

https://e-hunters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

E-Hunters (Leadersearch S.A.S.) is a Bogotá-based HR consulting firm providing recruitment, selection, training, candidate evaluation, and outplacement to Colombian enterprises, operating as the executive search arm of elempleo.com and Casa Editorial El Tiempo.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bogotá

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Membership subscriptions (elempleo.com tiers): Paid membership tiers (Gold, Silver, Bronze) offered to job seekers (candidates) providing salary consultation, search priority, and career coaching services. Duration ranges from 3 months to 1 year depending on tier.
2. HR consulting services to enterprises: B2B services including selection and recruitment, preselection of resumes, training/capacitaciones, candidate evaluations, smart recruitment, and outplacement. Companies pay for these services on a quotation basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

E-Hunters is a Colombian HR consulting firm providing B2B talent management services including executive search/headhunting, resume prescreening, customized corporate training, psychometric candidate evaluation, gamified digital selection (Smart Recruitment), and outplacement for workforce transitions. For individuals, the company operates the elempleo.com job portal with paid membership tiers offering salary benchmarking, priority search visibility, and career coaching, plus a personal branding course.

Product overview

E-Hunters is a Colombian HR consulting company offering a portfolio of recruitment and talent management services. The core offerings include six main service lines: Selección y Reclutamiento (headhunting and recruitment), Preselección de Hojas de Vida (resume prescreening), Capacitación (corporate training), Evaluación de Candidatos (candidate assessment), Smart Recruitment (digital/gamified selection), and Outplacement. For job seekers, the company offers three membership tiers through elempleo.com platform: Elempleo Gold (premium with personalized advisory), Elempleo Silver (mid-tier with group advisory), and Elempleo Bronze (entry-level with basic features). Additionally, a Personal Brand course is available for professional development. All services are backed by elempleo.com and El Tiempo Casa Editorial.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• elempleo.com: Online job portal and recruitment platform - the primary platform under which E-Hunters operates

Products and services

• Selección y Reclutamiento (Selection and Recruitment) End-to-end headhunting and recruitment service for professional profiles, middle management, and senior executives. Includes psychometric testing, background checks, reference verification, and a guarantee on all processes. Delivers final shortlist within 2 weeks for enterprise clients.
• Preselección de Hojas de Vida (Resume Prescreening) Resume prescreening service that presents candidates matching agreed profiles, ready for interviews. Includes candidate information validation, market mapping, and follow-up throughout the selection process for hiring companies.
• Capacitación (Corporate Training) Customized corporate training programs using agile methodologies including gamification. Topics cover generational change, soft skills development, transformational leadership, neuro-negotiation, and digital transformation in HR for enterprise teams.
• Evaluación de Candidatos (Candidate Assessment) Candidate evaluation service using assessment centers, individual evaluations, and psychometric testing tools. Provides complete and detailed results reports for hiring or promoting talent within client organizations.
• Smart Recruitment Digital selection process leveraging gamification and social media recruiting to create unique candidate experiences and help companies build an innovative employer brand.
• Outplacement Transition labor plans for employees affected by company reorganization or retirement. Includes dignified closure with departing employees and positive employer branding support for organizations undergoing workforce changes.
• Elempleo Membership (Gold, Silver, Bronze tiers) Paid membership tiers for individual job seekers on the elempleo.com platform, offering salary consultation, priority placement in employer searches, and career coaching services. Gold is a 1-year premium tier with personalized advisory; Silver is a 6-month mid-tier with group coaching; Bronze is a 3-month entry-level tier with basic features.
• Marca Personal (Personal Branding Course) Personal branding course focused on creating a powerful personal brand for competitiveness in online and offline channels. Includes self-knowledge, brand creation tools, networking strategies, and digital identity guidance. Duration: 4 hours, virtual and self-paced, distributed through cursos.eltiempo.com.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2-week turnaround for final shortlist delivery in selection processes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Servicio Público de Empleo (Colombia)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014E-Hunters is officially linked to the network of public employment service providers in Colombia, as authorized by the Ministry of Labor. This partnership enables E-Hunters to operate within the regulated employment services ecosystem of Colombia.
• elempleo.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerE-Hunters is a subsidiary/brand of elempleo.com, the largest job portal in Colombia. E-Hunters operates as the executive search and HR consulting arm of elempleo.com, leveraging its database and platform for talent selection services. The relationship is integral to E-Hunters' service offering and market positioning.
• El Tiempo Casa EditorialcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEl Tiempo Casa Editorial is the largest media house in Colombia and the parent company of elempleo.com. E-Hunters operates under its umbrella, benefiting from the brand authority, editorial reach, and cross-promotional opportunities of Colombia's most prominent newspaper and media group.
• cursos.eltiempo.comminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorE-Hunters courses, such as the personal branding course, are distributed through the cursos.eltiempo.com platform operated by El Tiempo Casa Editorial, enabling broader reach to job seekers and professionals.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with dominant positioning in recruitment, talent insights, and learning. Comparable to E-Hunters' B2B recruitment business at the higher end of the market, with similar salary benchmarking and headhunting use cases, but at vastly greater global scale.
• Adecco: Global HR services and staffing company operating in Colombia and across LatAm. Comparable to E-Hunters across recruitment, training, and outplacement, with stronger scale but less specialization in the Colombian market and weaker local brand affinity.
• Indeed: Global job search and matching platform with broad enterprise recruitment products. Competes with E-Hunters and elempleo.com for both job-seeker attention and employer recruitment spend, including salary benchmarking, employer branding, and direct sourcing tools.
• PageGroup (Michael Page): Global recruitment firm with a strong professional and executive search practice. Comparable to E-Hunters' headhunting service for mid-management and senior roles, with a similar client base of corporate employers seeking specialized talent acquisition.
• ManpowerGroup: Global staffing and workforce solutions company with significant LatAm operations. Comparable to E-Hunters in offering recruitment, assessment, training, and outplacement services, but at much larger scale and with a broader service portfolio.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with executive search, talent acquisition, and assessment practices. Comparable to E-Hunters' senior-level recruitment and candidate evaluation offerings, but operating at a significantly larger scale and price point.
• Robert Half: Global staffing and consulting firm specializing in finance, accounting, technology, and administrative placements. Comparable to E-Hunters' specialized recruitment model, particularly in professional and middle-management segments, with a similar consultative sales approach.
• Hays: Global professional recruitment firm specializing in mid-to-senior level placements across multiple disciplines. Closely comparable to E-Hunters' Selección y Reclutamiento offering, particularly in the professional and middle-management segments, with similar fee-based engagement models.

Direct peers

• Bumeran: Latin American job portal and recruitment platform operating in several countries. Comparable to E-Hunters' hybrid model of job portal plus enterprise recruitment services, with a similar target market of professional and mid-management job seekers in Spanish-speaking LatAm.
• Computrabajo: One of the largest job portals in Latin America, operating across multiple countries including Colombia. Directly comparable to E-Hunters' parent elempleo.com in terms of business model (job portal + recruitment services) and regional focus on Spanish-speaking LatAm markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/e-hunters-colombia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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