Balam Hunters is a Guatemalan company, created by Guatemalans, to expand safe and legal pathways for labor migration. We connect trusted employers with talented workers through an ethical and agile platform — helping people access life-changing opportunities and supporting companies in building reliable, skilled teams.
Our Story
Balam Hunters was founded to continue a mission we began from the public and international cooperation sectors: expanding safe and legal pathways for labour migration. We saw the need for a private, ethical, and agile platform to connect trusted employers with talented workers across the region. Today, we proudly help hundreds of individuals pursue life-changing opportunities — and support companies in building reliable, skilled workforces.
Our Mission
Our mission is to promote safe, legal, and transparent pathways for labour migration — helping employers build strong, reliable workforces, while offering life-changing opportunities to workers across the region. We are committed to advancing ethical recruitment practices and ensuring that every step of the process respects the dignity of workers and the needs of businesses. By bridging public, private, and international efforts through our platform, we aim to make labour mobility a force for shared prosperity.
Our Team
We are a multidisciplinary team with deep experience in public policy, international cooperation, private sector engagement, and ethical recruitment. We have worked for years alongside governments, employers, and workers to strengthen labour mobility programs and open safe, legal pathways to employment abroad. Today, from the private sector, we combine this expertise with a hands-on, client-focused approach — ensuring that every recruitment process is efficient, transparent, and tailored to the needs of both employers and workers.
Our Regional Presence
We are proud to operate in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Ecuador, allowing us to connect top talent across the region with valuable international job opportunities.
Our regional presence is strengthened by strategic alliances with both public and private sector partners — including training centers, private companies, municipalities, and other key stakeholders — ensuring that we consistently identify and prepare reliable, well-qualified workers. These partnerships allow us to build strong talent pipelines and support companies seeking skilled, motivated candidates from Central and South America through an ethical, transparent recruitment process.
Why Choose Us?
At Balam Hunters, we understand that your business depends on having the right people, at the right time, with the right skills. That’s why we go beyond traditional recruitment. We provide ethical, transparent, and fully compliant recruitment and visa processing services that ensure peace of mind for employers and life-changing opportunities for workers. With proven experience supporting thousands of successful placements, strong relationships with public and private partners across the region, and a deep commitment to quality, we help you build a reliable workforce you can trust. When you choose Balam Hunters, you choose a partner dedicated to your success and to doing things the right way.
Our Founders
Geovanna Salazar
GENERAL DIRECTOR
Geovanna Salazar served as the Vice Minister of Social Welfare and Employment, where she played a pivotal role in the creation, structuring, and execution of the temporary work program. She established procedures that ensured the program could respond swiftly and ethically to employers' requests. Under her leadership, Guatemalan workers were successfully promoted to employers across various countries. During her administration, workers were sent not only to the United States and Canada but also to new destinations such as Germany (nurses), Spain (with a signed cooperation agreement), Italy (cruise ship workers), and northern Mexico (agricultural workers). From April 2021 to January 2024, her efforts directly benefited over 8,000 temporary workers.
Rafael Rodríguez
DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Rafael Rodriguez, as the former Minister of Labor and Social Welfare of Guatemala, was instrumental in promoting and expanding temporary worker programs. He positioned the program as a national priority and spearheaded its growth by assembling and empowering the team that made it possible. His leadership ensured that recruitment and selection processes were conducted under the ethical principles established by the International Labour Organization (ILO), where he also served on the Governing Body, representing his country and the subregion of Central America and the Dominican Republic. Additionally, he oversaw the successful implementation of the Ministry’s temporary work program, which continues to thrive today.
Ana Paola P. Lobos
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
Ana Paola Lobos is a professional with over a decade of experience advancing initiatives that strengthen the business climate and promote economic development across Latin America. She has worked across the private sector and international cooperation, partnering with public-private entities to design and implement policies and programs that create employment and enhance competitiveness.
Since 2019, Ana Paola has focused on strengthening regular labor mobility programs, including providing technical support to the Guatemalan government’s labor mobility program. During this engagement, which concluded in 2023, the program successfully enabled more than 8,000 Guatemalans to access legal, safe, and orderly temporary employment opportunities abroad. In addition, she has developed extensive international experience in employer relations, industry associations, and key actors within the labor migration ecosystem, actively promoting Guatemala as a trusted source country for H-2A and H-2B visa programs in the United States.