Happy Saturday, everyone!
Quick question: who is actually doing your SEO?
If you pay an agency, it's probably someone juggling a stack of accounts, like this week's Candidate #1. She runs 17 of them right now.
Hire her full-time and your site gets all of her. One of her clients went from 1 organic lead to 13 in five months. Another tripled its mentions in AI answers in 60 days.
Candidate #2 has led a 12-person SEO team and handled 12 to 15 accounts at a U.S. agency. Hire both for less than one U.S. salary.
At Go Carpathian, we cut hiring timelines from months to days by:
✔️ Headhunting from top-performing agency SEO teams
✔️ Testing for client communication, reporting, and hands-on SEO
✔️ Vetting for English proficiency & U.S. cultural fluency
👉 See someone who fits your team? Book a free 30-min call with our recruiting specialists and interview them this week.
Candidate #1
📍 South Africa | 💰 $2,000 to $2,300/month | Full-Time
She's the SEO consultant managing 17 client projects right now, 20 at her peak, and she does the on-page, technical and reporting work herself before presenting it to the client.
Why you should hire her immediately:
Took a luxury landscape design firm from 1 organic conversion to 13 in five months (+600% year over year)
Grew organic conversions 64.2% and sales 28% year over year
Lifted a security company's AI mention visibility from 3.1% to 9.7% in 60 days
Grew a 250-person digital marketing agency's site impressions from 2.63M to 4.05M in six months
Grew organic traffic 65.8% over two years for a low-vision devices retailer
Client-facing: runs client meetings, presents the reports and answers client questions herself
Hands-on in WordPress: metadata, internal links, FAQs, redirects, page-speed fixes and Rank Math setup
Sets up GA4 and Google Tag Manager tracking and builds Looker Studio reports
Builds Claude and ChatGPT workflows for her team, with fact-checking and human editing on every piece
Tools: Ahrefs, SEMrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Looker Studio, Screaming Frog, BrightLocal, Google Business Profile, Rank Math, Yoast, WordPress, Squarespace, TrueRanker, Mangools, SEOCrawl, UseHall, CallRail, Canva, Basecamp, ChatGPT, Claude
Strengths: On-page SEO • Local SEO • AI search visibility (GEO) • Schema markup • Content optimization • Client reporting
Candidate #2
📍 South Africa | 💰 $3,000 to $3,300/month | Full-Time
Want someone to own your SEO, not just tick off tasks? This is him. In 7 years he's worked his way up from SEO copywriter to running the whole channel: he sets the roadmap, makes the business case, and ties every move back to revenue in GA4.
Why you should hire him immediately:
Managed 12 to 15 client accounts at a U.S. digital agency, where he was given the clients who brought in more revenue
Led a team of 8 SEO specialists and 4 SEO copywriters
Worked on SEO for a global fitness franchise, so he knows how to rank many locations under one brand
Owns national, local and hyperlocal strategy for multi-location businesses
Gets brands cited in Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity with answer-first content
Connects organic results to pipeline and revenue with GA4 and Google Tag Manager attribution
Currently the SEO lead on a CMS migration to WordPress
Also runs paid search, so your SEO and PPC work from one plan
Fully client-facing: leads the meetings, builds the dashboards in Looker Studio, and tells clients the truth when a timeline is unrealistic
Tools: Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Looker Studio, BrightLocal, Google Business Profile, Google Ads, WordPress, Elementor, Shopify, Webflow, Umbraco, Monday.com, Trello, Asana, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
Strengths: SEO strategy • Team leadership • Revenue attribution • AI search (AEO/GEO) • Technical audits • Multi-location & local SEO
👉 Both can interview within days, and Candidate #2 can start immediately.
Ready to meet them?
Hit reply with the candidate number, or schedule a free 30-minute discovery call with one of our recruiting specialists and get matched with the best global SEO talent this week!
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Until next time,
The Go Carpathian Team
PS: SEO takes months to compound. The hire you make this month is the one showing up in your search results by spring.
T&Cs: One gift card per client. Book your call by 11:59 pm ET on the dates above. The Delta gift card goes out once you make an offer to a candidate we present (direct hire or staffing). Hires must be made by January 15th, 2027. Open to new clients and to returning clients starting a new role. Delta is not a sponsor of, or affiliated with, this promotion.
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