Opening the doors to emerging career markets.

As emerging economies grow, so does their appetite for skilled talent and international competitiveness — creating a market of exciting opportunity. Nextstep opens that door to that market, surfacing real, lasting careers in less explored parts of the world.

- Since 2022 -

we have hired in five countries,
and sourced from twenty more.

Trusted by talent.

We’ve connected with and registered over ten thousand job seekers from around the world.

10,000+

Job seekers connected

We have hired in five countries.

Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and the UAE — placements spanning South East Asia and the Middle East.

Five countries · two regions

And sourced talent from everywhere.

Candidates come to us from the Americas, Europe, South Africa, Asia and the Gulf — five continents and counting.

20+

Source countries

Grassroots.
Bootstrapped.

Nextstep isn’t a global agency with a hundred desks and a logo on a tower. We’re a human-first, technology-backed service, streamlined to flex with market demand.

Being lean is a deliberate choice. It keeps us close to our work and clientele, allowing us to meet the nuances of each market whilst realising our vision sustainably. As the brand develops, our infrastructure will scale with us.

Modern recruitment
for a modern world.

Having spent ten years in the UK construction industry and numerous attempts to find work abroad, I knew first-hand that classic recruitment agencies weren’t geared for global connectivity. 

For many like myself, the nine-to-five grind had become a lackluster experience, but the more meaningful, exciting opportunities I was after were simply too obscure and fragmented for me to reach from the outside.

Intent on changing the status quo, I chose to leverage the progressive, friendly and fast-moving nature of Cambodia’s private sector to develop my idea.

Learning the market from the ground up, through missteps and lucky breaks alike, I continue to build an end-to-end channel attuned to what moving abroad really takes — not just finding secure work, but making the move safely.

Josh Downs

Founder, Nextstep

Built in Cambodia.
Made for the world.

We didn’t end up in Cambodia by accident. It’s exactly the kind of open, forward-leaning economy where a modern, borderless career can take root — and building from here was the whole point.

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An economy on the move

Cambodia is one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies — young, dollarised and outward-looking. It has spent the last decade opening up to the world, and it hasn’t stopped.

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Open to people and capital

Liberal foreign-ownership rules sit alongside one of the region’s more welcoming visa regimes. Investment and talent both move freely here — few markets make arriving this easy.

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Where careers go global

Progressive emerging economies are where the new age of career development is being written. The best opportunities are surfacing in markets the rest of the world hasn’t caught up with yet.

Opening the door to emerging career markets.

As emerging economies grow, so does their appetite for skilled talent and international competitiveness — creating a market of exciting opportunity. Nextstep opens that door to that market, surfacing real, lasting careers in less explored parts of the world.

Since 2022

we have hired in five countries,
and sourced from twenty more.

Grassroots.
Bootstrapped.

Nextstep isn’t a global agency with a hundred desks and a logo on a tower — we’re a human-first, technology-backed service, streamlined to flex with market demand.

Being lean is a deliberate choice: it keeps us close to our work and clientele, allowing us to meet the nuances of each market whilst realising our vision sustainably. As the brand develops, our infrastructure will scale with us.

Modern recruitment for a modern world.

Having spent ten years in the UK construction industry and numerous attempts to find work abroad, I knew first-hand that classic recruitment agencies weren’t geared for global connectivity. 

For many like myself, the nine-to-five grind had become a lackluster experience, but the more meaningful, exciting opportunities I was after were simply too obscure and fragmented for me to reach from the outside.

Intent on changing the status quo, I chose to leverage the progressive, friendly and fast-moving nature of Cambodia’s private sector to develop my idea.

Learning the market from the ground up, through missteps and lucky breaks alike, I continue to build an end-to-end channel attuned to what moving abroad really takes — not just finding secure work, but making the move safely.

Josh Downs

Founder, Nextstep

Built in Cambodia. Made for the world.

We didn’t end up in Cambodia by accident. It’s exactly the kind of open, forward-leaning economy where a modern, borderless career can take root — and building from here was the whole point.

trending_up

An economy on the move

Cambodia is one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies — young, dollarised and outward-looking. It has spent the last decade opening up to the world, and it hasn’t stopped.

handshake

Open to people and capital

Liberal foreign-ownership rules sit alongside one of the region’s more welcoming visa regimes. Investment and talent both move freely here — few markets make arriving this easy.

public

Where careers go global

Progressive emerging economies are where the new age of career development is being written. The best opportunities are surfacing in markets the rest of the world hasn’t caught up with yet.

Let’s get talking.

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