AJ Ramirez

Fifteen years. Fifty thousand hires. One promise.

This is the story behind Metacom, and what it means for your hiring.

AJ Ramirez. Founder and CEO, Metacom RPO.

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At 24, I started my first business.

I kept my day job and built on the side.

Not every business worked. Every one taught me something.

Then I ran a call center.

I sat where our partners sit today.

I learned what an empty seat costs.

The call center did not last.

But it showed me what I was good at.

Getting people to apply.

Recruitment marketing became my craft.

So I went all in on recruitment.

No co-founders. Just me.

Our first BPO partner was Startek.

The results came right away.

An early Metacom hiring flyer that says: Want to give your career a helping hand?
Early hiring flyer
A living room full of job applicants standing together for a group photo
2012

Hub after hub.

Hire after hire.

We met candidates face to face, in their own cities.

Applicants seated in a hub, watching an orientation on a screen
2014
A long line of applicants inside a Metacom office
2016
The Metacom team on an outing, a large group posing outdoors
2017

Partners noticed.

We became the top vendor for most of them.

What started with one person became a company.

AJ Ramirez in a blue suit, seated in an office with rows of workstations behind him
2015
Team members in formal wear at a Metacom year-end party
2017
A large Metacom team seated together outdoors
2018

Then the pandemic closed every door.

Our whole model was built on meeting people in person.

Our hubs went quiet.

So we paused.

Four views of an empty office floor with rows of blue and green workstations
Bulacan hub, 2020

I used the quiet to study.

I read everything I could on strategy.

I learned to code, to understand the tools.

Then I took our process apart and rebuilt it.

A bookshelf filled with business and strategy books
A desk with a keyboard and a monitor showing the Metacom logo
2021

We came back different.

A new process. A new team, trained from the ground up.

Our own tools, built in-house.

Rebuilt, step by step.

A building under construction with scaffolding
2021
A team crowded together and smiling behind a row of workstations
2021
A man in a white shirt coaching recruiters working on laptops
2023

We did not wait for the old market to come back.

We reinvented how we hire.

In person and online. One role or a full ramp.

  • 50,000+placements
  • 15years
  • 7hubs
  • 200+recruiters
  • 27+partners
The whole Metacom team lined up in front of the building with the Metacom logo
2024
A large Metacom team posing together in an office lobby
2026

Fifteen years showed me what hiring really is.

It is not about filling seats.

It is the new account you can say yes to.

The new site you can open. The growth that no longer waits.

AJ Ramirez presenting to a room full of his team
A team lead coaching a recruiter at her workstation
Team members joining hands in a huddle on the office floor

So here is the promise.

With us, hiring will never be what holds you back.

Bring us your hardest hiring problem.

The role nobody can fill. The ramp that is behind schedule. In one strategy call, we will show you how we would solve it.

Book your strategy call

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