Practice 01 · Human Resources
Supporting production across Patagonia since 1987
The Human Resources practice at Estudio Sánchez Salas has provided recruitment and selection in Neuquén and across Patagonia since 1987: technicians, professionals and executives for oil and gas operators, contractors, SMEs and subsidiaries of multinational companies.
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Type it in and we will tell you how many times we have recruited for it, with the job ad for each search. If we have never run it, we will tell you that too.
The record lists the searches published on our job portal: each one links to its ad. Searches filled without publishing an ad do not appear here. Role and area names are translated into English; the ads themselves are in Spanish, the language they were published in. You can search in either language.
181 distinct roles in 26 areas; in brackets, how many searches we published for each one. Role, area and sector names are translated into English; the original postings are in Spanish. Record updated on .
In addition, 128 searches without a role from this list appear only under their sector: Energy, Mining, Oil & Gas (43) · Skilled Trades & Other (16) · Technology, IT & Telecommunications (14) · Administration, Accounting & Finance (9) · Logistics, Purchasing & Procurement (8) · Civil Engineering & Construction (7) · Production & Manufacturing (6) · Sales & Business Development (5) · Marketing, Communications & Design (4) · Food Service & Tourism (3) · General Management (3) · Health, Medicine & Pharmacy (3) · Human Resources & Training (2) · Legal (2) · Customs & Foreign Trade (1) · Education, Teaching & Research (1) · Secretarial & Reception (1). In total, 1,242 searches.
Searches carried out
Companies that have hired us
Distinct roles
Years in the region · since 1987
Services
From the role profile to the hire: initial briefing, active sourcing (including direct approach for critical positions), competency-based interviews, assessment and a shortlist of 3 to 5 finalists.
Fee based on the processan advance to start + the balance when the person joinsYour job ad published on the job boards we subscribe to and shared across our social channels. We attract and organise the applications; the shortlisting and the decision stay on your side. See recruitment advertising →
The budget optiona fixed fee that does not change with the resultPsychometric tests and competency-based assessment, with a test battery adapted to the role and to your company's protocol. Executive report within 72 hours. Also available if you already have your finalists and only need to decide.
A platform for your company to publish and manage its own searches, with built-in checks: identity, ANSES records (Argentina's social security agency), financial standing, litigation and degrees. Employment references are checked by our team. See the job ad system →
Search and Selection follows the Methodical Search: our quality management system, aligned with the ISO 9001 standard, with the same documented steps in every process and a record of every candidate contacted. It includes the built-in checks — identity, ANSES, financial standing, litigation and degrees — and employment references taken by a member of our team.
Also: Career Transition — professional outplacement support, reintegration coaching and care for your employer brand — and Training & Development, with programmes designed to strengthen, retain and develop teams in their real context.
What we do
As a human resources consultancy, we fill the roles your operation depends on.
We work from Neuquén, with people who live here, in a region where the right person is almost never looking at job ads. We run the complete process — from the role profile to the hire — or only the part you need.
And we do not consider a search finished when the person signs: we consider it finished when they are still there.
That no company in the region loses a contract, a plant shutdown or a project because it could not find the right person in time.
Depending on your organisation
Do you have HSE, plant or engineering positions holding up the operation?
Technical and professional searches and executive headhunting, with the assessment protocol your head office requires.
Shortlist in 14 to 21 days · Corporate protocol
Recruitment for oil and gas operators → 02Have you won a purchase order and need the crew for next month?
Volume hiring, continuous replacement and specialised technical positions, billed per project or per hire.
From 20 to 100+ technicians · Paid on hire
Recruitment for contractors → 03Do you need to fill a key role without an HR team in the region?
Regional searches, real local salary bands and confidential processes when the role is still occupied.
No travel · Four packages, one budget option
Recruitment for SMEs and multinationals →Reach
That is why publishing a job ad is not enough. Over the years we have built a three-layer network that is activated in every search: the clients and referrers who have already worked with us, the contacts of those referrers, and the talent that is currently employed and satisfied — and only listens when the call comes from someone they know.
Since then, a network working for your search.
Referrers, contacts and talent who are not looking right now.Judgement
Five finalists, one role. With the CVs on the table, they all look reasonable. The difference shows up in the assessment: competencies, fit with the team and potential, all measured against the same yardstick.
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There is no need to guess. We assess for you.
References
We work with oil and gas operators, service contractors, industrial SMEs and subsidiaries of multinational companies. Some ask us for express confidentiality; with the rest, we choose to be just as discreet. A search says a lot about a company — that a role is about to be replaced, that an operation is opening, that someone is leaving — and that is not ours to publish. That is why you will not find logos or signed testimonials on this page: it is the same discretion we will show you.
What we do instead: once the conversation moves forward, we give you telephone references from companies of your own sector and size, so that they can tell you themselves.
In the meantime, the evidence is in plain sight:
Before opening the search
We do not publish a generic report: we build it around the roles you are interested in, using the searches we ourselves have run in the region. Real bands from real processes, not a survey.
It helps you defend the budget before you open the search — and if you then decide to open it with us, half of the conversation is already done.
Questions
Search and selection: the fee depends on the process (the profile, the scope of the search and the number of positions). An advance is paid to start and the balance when the person actually joins: the bulk of the fee is paid once the hire happens.
Recruitment advertising: this is the budget option, with a fixed fee known in advance.
Assessments and the job ad system: depending on the volume you need.
Real figures, measured from the initial briefing:
| Shortlist presented | 14 to 21 days |
|---|---|
| Operational and technical, filled end to end | 30 days |
| Middle management | ~60 days |
| Management | ~90 days |
These are regional averages, not commitments: many searches are filled sooner. The timeline depends above all on how attractive the offer is compared with the market — if the salary band is below it, the search takes longer — and we tell you so at the start. When the urgency justifies it, we can speed up the process and work to shorter timelines than these.
We are in Neuquén: the office is at Belgrano 1216, in the city of Neuquén, and the team that runs the searches lives in the region. The firm was founded here in 1987 as a Human Resources consultancy for the companies of the Alto Valle (the upper valley of the Neuquén and Río Negro rivers), and it still has the same address and the same phone number. If your company is in another city in Patagonia, there is no need to travel: we run the briefing, send you the reports and present the finalists by video and in writing.
The search comes with a 90-day guarantee: if the person leaves within that period, we run the process again at no additional fee.
You can hire us only to advertise the role and gather applications (we attract and organise them, you shortlist), only to assess the finalists you already have, or for the complete process. The service is modular by design.
On recruitment advertising it is worth being clear: with this service, the client carries the outcome risk. We publish, attract and organise, but we cannot guarantee which candidates will apply. In exchange, the fee is fixed and does not move with the result: if you end up hiring three people from that same search, you pay the same as if you hire one.
Because it does not depend on anyone's memory. We call it the Methodical Search: a quality management system aligned with the ISO 9001 standard (we are on our way to certification), with the same documented steps in every search: role profile briefing, sourcing, competency-based interviews, assessment and a reasoned shortlist. Every candidate contacted is recorded, together with the reason why they moved forward or not. If another member of the team takes over your search tomorrow, the process does not start over.
Yes, and it is built into the process: identity, ANSES records, financial standing, litigation and university degrees. It is a 360° background check that most searches in the region do not include, and it is where the costly surprises show up. Employment references are taken by a member of our team.
Yes. We adapt the test battery and the report template to the protocol your company requires, and we deliver in the format your headquarters expects. If your head office works with an ATS, we load the candidates into it.
It is a regular part of the work. It is handled through direct approach, with no published ad and without the market knowing which company is searching, under a prior confidentiality agreement and with the team kept to the minimum needed. Those searches do not appear in the record above, precisely because they never had an ad.
It could be a first for us. The record only contains what we published as job ads, so it is not the full map of what we know how to do. Tell us the role and we will tell you the same day whether we can fill it — and if we cannot, we will tell you that too.
Next step
Tell us which role you need to fill. One of our managers reviews what you need and replies with scope, timeline and fees. Free of charge and with no obligation.
Head of the Human Resources practice · Founding partner of the firm · In the region since 1987
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