Neustar, Inc., provider of real-time information services, announced it will expand its business footprint and workforce in STEM-related computer and information services (IS) skills as it increases its employee base. Throughout 2019, the company intends to hire more than 50 professionals in technical and leadership positions in engineering-related functions and activities including database ...

Roche inaugurated the Finance and Procurement areas of its Shared Service Center for the Americas today. From Costa Rica, the company will provide business operations support to the Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics divisions across the entire American Continent. The operation will generate approximately 400 direct and 50 indirect jobs by the end of 2020. The Center, which began operations in J...

IBM will expand its Global Security Service Center in Costa Rica making it the biggest in Latin America. With an investment of $21 million, IBM will expand its operations in the country including its current infrastructure. The Global Security Service Center monitors security events for clients in over 130 countries; the expansion will allow it to triple its capacity and it will add new service...

According to the Continues Employment Survey recently published by the National Institute of Census and Statistics (Spanish acronym: INEC), the unemployed population was estimated in 294 thousand people in the last trimester of 2018, an increase of 89 thousand people in comparison to the same period of 2017. The unemployment rate increased in 2.7 points and reached 12% with respect to the fou...

The 14th edition of the CINDE Job Fair is scheduled to take place February 22 to February 24  at the new Costa Rica Convention Center in Cariari. This year the fair aims to fill 3800 positions available in more than 40 participating companies, the majority of which are foreign investment companies that require bilingual personnel in areas such as project management, accounting, customer service...

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring, plans to hire 370 employees as part of its expansion in Costa Rica. “We are proud to contribute from Costa Rica to today’s and tomorrow’s product development that aid patients worldwide. Our new facilities will start operating 100...

Tech Data announced it has opened a new Customer Lifecycle Management Services location in Escazú, Costa Rica. Opening this November 12, the new facility will provide additional capacity to accommodate new customer success programs. Part of Tech Data's Global Lifecycle Management Services portfolio, the Customer Lifecycle Management Services team offers programs to help customers expand their...

Stryker, a leading medical technology company, announced it will open an office in the San Antonio Business Park in Heredia, Costa Rica. In the first phase of hiring, the company plans to fill approximately 90 positions to support general accounting, accounts receivable and accounts payable activities. The Minister of Foreign Trade, Dyalá Jiménez said: “Costa Rica’s services sector has becom...

NOXTAK, a multinational firm specializing in nanotechnology for the control and mitigation of electromagnetic pollution from any source, has announced that it has chosen Costa Rica for setting up its operations. In the coming months, the company will start hiring personnel for manufacturing, design and engineering. At present, 11 employees are already working in the company’s administrative off...

"NCI Building Systems, one of North America’s largest integrated manufacturers of metal products for the nonresidential building industry, inaugurated its new facilities in Costa Rica today. The Minister of Foreign Trade, Dyalá Jiménez, the Head of Investment Promotion, Pilar Madrigal, NCI’s executives and special invitees participated in the event", informed the Costa Rican Investment Promotion A...

HP Enterprise Costa Rica inaugurated its new offices in the America Free Zone, seven floors were remodeled after an investment of close to $11 million USD. Hewlett Packard announced also the opening of 120 new positions in the areas of Supply Chain and Research and Development (R&D); the company is looking for IT engineers, industrial and electric engineers and experts in computer sciences. Engl...

The global company Jonson Controls will be holding a job fair this August 10 and 11 (Friday and Satuday) at their offices in Costa Rica, in the building H of Forum I first floor from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The company is looking to fill in 50 positions for its Circuito Sales Support Center in the country, and will be hiring technicians and electric engineers, mechanics, electro-mechanics, and CAD/ BI...

Unemployment in Costa Rica during the second trimester of 2018 reached 8.7%; during this period women unemployment reached 1.4% according to the information published by the Employment Survey of the Census and Statistics Institute (INEC). The survey indicates that the number of people out of work reached approx 206,000 (109,000 women and 97,000 men). This number represents 8.7% of the active po...

Over 2,500 job positions will be available in the upcoming edition of the now traditional Expoempleo, a job fair that brings together companies that are seeking for talent to fill in different positions and candidates looking for new or better job opportunities. This event is geared specially towards bilingual or multilingual candidates and it will take place August 24 and 25 in the National Sta...

The hotel brand ‘AC’ was founded by renowned hotelier Antonio Catalan (‘AC’) in 1998, and following his vision he developed one of the most well respected hotel brands in Spain. In 2011 Marriott International and AC Hotels formed a joint venture and launched AC Hotels by Marriott globally. The first AC Hotel by Marriot in Costa Rica will open doors in Escazú come September this year, the hotel ...

After 50 years of having settled in Costa Rica, the Coca-Cola Company celebrated, with a ground-breaking ceremony, the beginning of the construction of a new and modern plant in Liberia, Guanacaste. The new operation represents an initial investment of US $50 million. The concentrate of Coca-Cola and 89 drinks that are exported to Central America, the Caribbean, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argent...

"Paniamor Foundation and YouthBuild International have begun an ambitious project to improve employment opportunities for young Costa Ricans by expanding opportunities for work-based training for youth, such as apprenticeships, with a focus on including vulnerable and marginalized youth. This project is funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The project was introduced d...

Eurofins Scientific, a global leader in bio-analysis, inaugurated its new offices in Costa Rica and foresees hiring up to 50 Costa Ricans with knowledge in Information Technology, professionals related to IT infrastructure, Data Center and IT operations, as well to application development, architecture, design, and support. Eurofins invested US$250,000 on this new service site in Costa Rica. ...

Blackbaud, Inc. is a world leading cloud software company that has had a rapid growth over the past few years and is now serving customers in over 50 countries. Blackbaud recently announced it has selected Costa Rica to open its first office in Latin America. “As the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, we’re committed to providing the very best experience for our custo...

The ExpoEmpleo (Job Expo) 2018 will gather 19 companies that together have over 4,000 positions to fill, in particular for bilingual personnel with or without experience. The fair will take place April 13 and 14 at the National Stadium in La Sabana starting at 9 a.m. and finishing at 5 p.m. both days. This job fair takes place every year, but in this occasion it is directed exclusively to b...

NCI Building Systems, one of North America’s largest integrated manufacturers of metal products for the nonresidential building industry, announced today it plans to open a design center in Costa Rica to support its North American operations. NCI’s family of industry-leading brands works side-by-side to design, manufacture and deliver a comprehensive range of products for the non-residential const...

Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) developed the digital platform www.JobLink.cr where currently 45 companies are offering 3800 jobs mostly in the services area and the majority of which require bilingual personnel (Spanish/English or Portuguese in most cases). The companies are mainly foreign investment companies; those interested can register through the site and take a languag...

Officers of the Professional Migration Police and personnel from the Ministry of Work and the Social Security Service  (C.C.S.S.) found a total of 47 foreigners working under "irregular conditions" AKA Illegally in two companies hired by Coopesa a company dedicate to the repair and maintenance of air crafts. The group included natives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela who receiv...

As part of its growth strategy in Costa Rica, Citi announced that it hopes to continue generating more employment opportunities through the end of the year. The above was communicated, in the framework of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Shared Service Center, better known as: Citi Service Center (CSC) which operates in Costa Rica, La Ribera de Belén, where it provides services to o...

During a press conference today, Bayer announced the inauguration today of their new shared service center in Costa Rica, which will be providing 350 new jobs in the country. The shared service center will provide accounting, business support and finance services to all Latin-America. Erika Bernal, President of Bayer Central America and Caribbean, stated “We are celebrating 40 years of being...

The American company Microtechnologies –specializing in innovating and delivering critical components for global industries– inaugurated today its new production plant in the Terra Industrial Park, in Coyol of Alajuela, Costa Rica. The new facility of 15,000 square meters- marks the celebration of the company’s twentieth anniversary in the country and represents a milestone of innovation within...

Amazon Costa Rica announced today the inauguration of the new Seller Support Hub in El Tobogan Corporate Center in Barrio Tournón, San Jose, as the first step of a series of changes that would generate up to 1,500 new jobs this 2018. With an investment of close to U.S. $10 million, the Amazon Costa Rica team will offers support and attention to small and medium size companies that sell through ...

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) and Georgia Tech, signed an agreement that will allow to develop training programs for Costa Ricans, in academic areas of high demand in the actual labor market. The academic programs will be oriented to offer academic and training programs in the country in high demand areas such as: analytics, cybersecurity, data science, user experience and...

The global consulting firm McKinsey & Company inaugurated a new state-of-the-art facility located in Lagunilla, Heredia, Costa Rica. The inauguration featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Firm’s Global Managing Partner Mr. Dominic Barton, the President of CINDE, Mr. Luis Gamboa and Mr. Alexander Mora, Minister of Foreign trade, along with local McKinsey colleagues. McKinsey started...

The global medical device company, Smith & Nephew opened its GBS (Global Business Services) operation in Costa Rica today, to provide globally specialized shared services. This diversification of operations will allow the addition of 150 new collaborators in the next two years, with an investment of around 1.8 million dollars. The inauguration of the GBS was attended by the President of the ...

Roche, the world’s largest biotech company and leader in vitro diagnostics, today officially inaugurated its new IT Global Shared Service Center in Costa Rica. Roche has invested US$1.5 million in the Shared Service Center which will support both the Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics divisions of Roche, handling IT support calls from employees across the U.S. and Canada. The capital expenditure incl...

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE by its Spanish acronym) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX by its Spanish acronym) revealed that 2017 was a positive year for Costa Rica thanks to the 40 investment projects attracted and generated 13,754 new jobs. The new multinational companies and the already established and growing industries, in the sectors of life sciences, corporat...

The Costa Rica Star and Luxe Marketing Boutique is looking for an experienced social media manager to join our growing team. You will help us engage with our clients audiences on social media, identify our online community’s developing needs, and look for opportunities to grow our social reach and brand awareness. If you’re a social-savvy trendsetter whose morning routine wouldn’t be complete w...

CSS Corp is leading IT Services and Technology Support company that has been in Costa Rica for four years, they announced today the opening of its new delivery center in the country in the town of Tres Ríos, La Union, east of the Great Metropolitan Area, at Terra Campus, this is part of CSS Corp's strategy to diversify its footprint globally. The inauguration of the new center augments the com...

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) has relaunched the website www.thetalentplace.cr, aimed at students and professionals seeking information on the most sought-after careers in the industry, as well as serving as a liaison between technical and university students and leading companies interested in the best talent to occupy internships and professional practices within their orga...

Problems of coordination and differences in the modalities of care of the National Child Care and Development Network affect the management and quality of the services provided, according to the latest State of the Nation Report 2017. During 2016, the Care Network benefited 52,190 children, with wide cantonal  dispersion. The national average of the population from 0 to 6 years that serves t...

The annual report on Costa Rica's "State of the Nation" shows some disheartening realities with 20 percent of households stuck in a cycle of poverty and exclusion. While some families in extreme poverty, notably in rural areas, got a foothold out of their dire situation over the past year, this appears mainly due to government aid programs, and not due to permanent economic solutions or changes...

Over 33,500 new jobs were created at multinational corporations based in Costa Rica between 2014 and 2016. These jobs were created by companies that newly set up operation or expanded their existing projects in the country, said Luis Gamboa Arguedas, president of the Costa Rican Development Initiatives Coalition (CINDE). During this period, the country racked up at least 118 such foreign inv...

Over the past three years, Costa Rica's police force has gone from having 3 percent of female officers to 17 percent as the agency has incorporated a gender perspective into their polices, said Deputy Minister of Public Security, Commissioner Juan José Andrade A forum was held last week at the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly on gender initiatives within the public safety sector that included l...

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation a global leader in patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring, today announced it is investing $100 million for its expansion plans in Costa Rica. The company, headquartered in California, United States, develops and manufactures heart valves that are utilized in the treatment of patients with heart diseases all over th...