Free for all job seekers

The job market was not built to show your value fairly.

We exist to fix that gap. Free, personalised coaching from recruiters who have been on both sides of the hiring table and decided that helping people matters more than filling quotas.

In partnership with TalentScale
20+
IT professionals placed in new roles
100%
Free. Always. No conditions.

"The pipeline does not run dry. The pipeline was never built."

— Márcio Bastos Teixeira, Founder
No recruitment fees, ever
Your data is private and secure
One-on-one with an experienced recruiter
Response within 48 hours
The process

Four steps to a better position

Simple, honest, and built around your specific situation. Not a generic template.

1

Submit your application

Tell us about your situation, your goals and your biggest challenge right now. Takes about five minutes.

2

A founder reviews your file

A real person reads your submission carefully and prepares specifically for your session.

3

One-on-one session

A focused session on your specific situation. CV, interview prep, market strategy or all three. Honest feedback without softening.

4

Walk away prepared

Leave with a clear strategy you can act on immediately. Not a list of vague suggestions. A specific plan for the next move.

What we offer

Every kind of support, for free

We work with IT professionals at every stage. No hidden costs. No conditions.

CV Review and Rewrite

We identify what is working against you and rewrite your experience to show what you actually made happen. Not what you were assigned to do.

Most requested

Interview Preparation

A real practice session adapted to your specific role and company. Honest feedback and a strategy for the questions that worry you most.

High impact

New Market Entry

Positioning strategy for professionals entering the European, US or international IT market for the first time. What changes and what stays the same.

Brazil and LATAM

Leadership Coaching

For professionals taking their first steps into management. Growing is not just changing your title. It is changing how you are seen and how you lead.

Senior level

Career Advisory

Not sure what your next move should be? We help you map your options and make a decision you can be confident in. With someone who has seen the market from both sides.

All levels

Feedback Interpretation

When you get a rejection, we help you understand what actually happened. Rejection without analysis is just lost time. We turn it into information you can use.

Often overlooked

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Tell us about your situation

We review every submission personally. The more honest you are with us, the better we can help you.

Always free

No hidden costs. A social project built on the belief that every person searching deserves real support.

Personalised, not templated

Every session is built around your specific situation. We read your submission before we speak to you.

We reply within 48 hours

No automated responses. A real person from our team will contact you to schedule your session.

In partnership with TalentScale
Our network spans Europe and LATAM, enabling coaching specific to the market you are targeting.

Free Coaching Application

3 steps · Takes about 5 minutes

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Application received.

A real person from our team will read your submission carefully before we reach out. Not a template. Not an automated reply. We prepare specifically for your situation.

What happens next

1

We read your submission in full and prepare for your specific situation.

2

We contact you within 48 hours to schedule your session.

3

Your session is built around your submission. Come as you are.

If you need to reach us directly: marcio@joinvektra.pt

Meet the Team

People-first professionals

Experienced recruiters who decided that helping candidates matters more than filling quotas. Different backgrounds. One shared conviction.

7+ years of full-cycle IT recruitment across Portugal, Europe, and LATAM. Specialises in engineering and technology hiring across software development, infrastructure, data, and product functions. His work goes beyond placing candidates. Márcio has hands-on experience in Recruitment Operations, designing and improving the systems, processes, and workflows that make hiring functions run efficiently at scale. He has worked with HR technology platforms to automate sourcing, track pipeline quality, and reduce time-to-hire without sacrificing candidate experience. And he has been an early practitioner of AI for Recruitment, using machine learning tools and AI-assisted workflows to improve matching accuracy, reduce bias in screening, and give hiring teams better inputs on qualified talent. The through line across all of it is the same conviction: that better infrastructure produces better outcomes for candidates and employers alike. Building Vektra to prove it.

"The pipeline was never built. Most of the time it was just never properly explained."

15 years in Talent Acquisition across technology, fintech, and professional services. Has worked with companies from early-stage startups to global enterprises and placed hundreds of candidates across multiple markets. At Vektra, she leads candidate coaching with one conviction: the quality of support a professional receives should not depend on who they know or what they can afford.

"Every person searching deserves to be treated with respect and given the real tools to reach where they are trying to go."

A trilingual recruiter with deep experience in talent acquisition and employer branding. Passionate about connecting people with the right opportunities and helping candidates arrive fully prepared. Brings energy, directness, and a genuine belief that preparation changes outcomes.

"Properly preparing candidates for interviews is far more effective than assuming every hiring manager will naturally conduct a great interview."

16 years of HR and recruitment experience across IBM, Procter and Gamble, and fast-growing tech startups in the IT and fintech sectors. Has built HR departments from the ground up and developed people strategies across three countries. Graduated in the UK, started her business career in Switzerland, and now works remotely with global teams from Portugal.

"The right support at the right moment changes the trajectory of a career."

Our mission

Technology to humanize, not just to automate.

The job search is not about algorithms and keywords. It is about people. Every person searching deserves to be treated with respect and given the tools to reach where they are trying to go.

We are a small team of experienced Talent Acquisition professionals. Different backgrounds. Different locations. One shared conviction.

15+
Years in IT recruitment
20+
Professionals placed and counting
0€
Cost to candidates
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