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More than twenty-five years experience in the international arena means that we understand the facets – and the complexity – of the business. A solution-oriented approach to providing quality services for clients and specialists is our priority.
Reliability, diligence and integrity: traditional principles characterize our daily business practice. Our professionalism is also reflected in our highly qualified staff and ongoing investments.
Flexibility comes from listening. We put ourselves in the shoes of our clients and specialists – and respond to changes. Accordingly, there can be situations where it makes more sense to use a specialist rather than hiring an employee.
This is why we've developed International Temping or Employer of Records as alternative instruments to Freelance Contract Management.
It's our belief that clients and external specialists should see eye-to-eye. We want the partnership to create a win-win situation. Our balanced, impartial approach also comes into play here. This attitude has proven its worth in settling conflicts of interest in particular and has been commended by clients and external specialists alike.
Family has shaped our company and represents an important value: like any business we need to make money – but we don't just focus on the numbers, we also value the people who are part of a business relationship.
Therefore we place long-term, steady client relationships over short-term profits.
Project teams are diverse. This also applies to us: in working to ensure the success of clients, consultants and applicants every one draws on their own individual traits - whether it's a command of languages, educational background or professional experience. Even with such diversity, our firm retains a family-like character. Meet the Ergonos team members:
Matteo Carpanese
Sergio Lugli
Carmelo Coniglione
Domenica Palazzolo
Margherita Massaro
Benedetta Lavezzo
Francesco Galullo
The beginnings and character of Ergonos are tightly connected with the biography of Gianpaolo Carpanese, former CEO of Ergonos Consulting. With a doctorate in electrical engineering, Mr. Carpanese first began working in his field of training, later he took on managerial positions in IT at Nixdorf and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Organizing international teams for projects and taskforces defined his daily business life: in addition to his expertise, his partnership approach was frequently demanded in accomplishing the project goal together.
He also became well-acquainted with the freelancer point of view. After an extended period of employment in a managerial capacity, he worked as an independent consultant for other firms seeking to re-establish themselves strategically.
Through his professional networks and references, Gianpolo Carpanese came into contact with a well-known Italian firm from the oil and gas sector. With its small core workforce, this sector was and is the classic model for industrial consulting, and SeMa - the predecessor to Ergonos - handled sixty-two freelancers from its offices in Berlin.
In the mid-1990s, a well-known Italian company from the power generation sector was added to its roster of clients. In addition to contract management, SeMa was important in another realm: it demonstrated a flair for communicating with foreign consultants. Moreover, it became the stabilizing intermediary when it came to settling conflicts of interest between HR, management and consultants.
To meet the contract management demands of an ever-growing roster of clients and consultants, Ergonos Consulting was founded in Geneva as the successor to SeMa.
The Swiss location not only presented the appropriate international environment: it also allowed Gianpaolo Carpanese to work together here with his friend Robert de Picciotto. The two had met during their time at Digital Equipment Corporation.
As a result of the exchange of ideas with clients and consultants, Ergonos recognizes that trends are shifting from group-based contract management solutions to case-by-case analyses. First and foremost, the dominance of the international project means one thing for assembling teams: one-size-fits-all solutions no longer exist.
Ergonos first responds by acquiring Swiss licenses for international recruitment and international interim employment. The new pattern of case-by-case analysis also applies to the development of internal personnel.
Now clients and consultants can be individually advised on which type of contract fits them best. Future services will also reflect the needs of all parties involved in putting a team together.
