Our Services

It is very important to attract and retain leaders in order to be distinctive and competitive.
For this reason we are all committed to our Clients generating trust maintaining close links with them.
Thanks to our expertise, in addition to Executive Search services, we offer strategic advice, executive consultancy and analysis of management potential.

A wide-ranging guarantee additionally rounds off our services.

A wide-ranging guarantee additionally rounds off our services.

Executive Search

The aim is to establish contacts between the best international companies on the one hand and the most brilliant top and management professionals on the other hand.
We are able to guarantee Headhunting and Executive Search services worldwide, coordinating and project-managing the assignments with our local partners who can provide the clients with their value-add on the local markets.
Our experts act as a partner supporting businesses with passion and competence in the search of qualified staff, through customized and effective solutions.
The Hicons strategy aims at establishing a privileged relationship with the client, based on need comprehension, transparency and dialogue. Consultants work at their side to gain a deep insight into their business and company culture.
Even in the candidate evaluation process, Hicons consultants stand out thanks to their attention to people and ability to build a personal relationship with every partner. Before introducing a potential new employee to a company, the consultants check his/her motivation, expertise and level of excellence in the target market.
Hicons’s long-time clients know that they can reckon on professionals who personally invest their energies in the tasks they cope with, in order to perform them successfully.
To guarantee results within the timing and investments agreed upon, it is necessary to apply a strict methodology, turning each project into a customized solution based on the needs of each single client.

Board Consulting

We are independent, professional and objective.
As trusted experts, we offer services on a consultancy basis to Boards, in order to improve performance and capability, to guide them through a succession plan or to assess the Executive Management.
Cooperating with the top strategic levels of the company, we define strategies, evaluate the crucial skills and create a distinctive value.
Where necessary, our expertise allows us to become a more active partner on the constitution of a new Board or on the identification of a new member for an existing Board.
We help our clients in analyzing their requirements and objectives, as well as the necessary key skills the ideal candidate must have.
After this detailed analysis, we headhunt the right candidate and in terms of background, professional and personal profile.

Management Assessment

We provide a structured approach to Human Resource management to enable companies to transform themselves into effective and winning organizational systems.
Today, companies find themselves operating in an environment of constant change and this has also had an impact on careers. To be competitive, companies have to recognize the central role played by their resources.
We provide consulting and training solutions to strengthen the value of their Management and increase the level of competency and performance.
Any organization which intends to implement effective development paths has to begin with an analysis of the competencies of its managers and subsequently to act to add value to their potential.
Our Professionals act as partners to companies to offer flexible and customized solutions to support sophisticated yet easy-to-use systems and tools.
Through targeted, timely, and tailored interventions our experts are able to contribute to increase the level of competitiveness of companies, increase workforce potential, and increase performance levels.

INDUSTRIES

Life Science & Healthcare

The delivery of patient - centered care and the challenge of cost-effective products and services, require a new culture and the hiring and retention of the right talent and skills. We help our Clients in identifying the game changers.

  • Biotechnology
  • Consumer Health
  • Diagnostics
  • Healthcare Services
  • Medical Devices
  • Pharmaceutical

INDUSTRIES

Industrial & Engineering

The next revolution is now and impacts all businesses across the industrial sectors, regardeless of their size and organizational culture. Our challenge is to support our Clients in hiring key resources to bring new competences or develop new business models, coupling technical skills with business acumen. Our teams have a deep expertise, gained in many industrial fields.

  • Automation
  • Automotive & Transportation
  • Building Components
  • Chemical & Process Industries
  • Components
  • Machinery & Engineering
  • Minining, Oil & Gas & Utlities
  • Professional Equipment

INDUSTRIES

Consumer, Fashion & Retail

Continuous changes in the consumer and retail environment provide great opportunities for both manufacturers and retailers to re-design their strategies and meet the increasing demand for a truly omni-channel experience. We support our Clients in hiring the key resources for such a strategic trasformation, with a a true passion for a unique customer experience.

  • Apparel & Textile
  • Consumer Others
  • Luxury Goods
  • Durable Goods
  • FMCG
  • Luxury Goods
  • Retail

INDUSTRIES

Technology & Communications

The pace and scale of innovation in Technology and Communications is impressive and it's crucial to have the right resources to both transform traditional business and enables emerging business models. It's a matter of Skills and Culture.

  • Software and Internet
  • Cloud
  • Big Data & Analytics
  • Mobility
  • Hardware Systems
  • Communications

INDUSTRIES

Financial Services

In this Industry, impacted by the global economy uncertainty, a growing regulatory pressure and the effects with the effect of the digital transformation, we help our Clients define the best hiring strategies for their operational and leadership teams.

  • Banking
  • Insurance
  • Private Equity
  • Retail Financial Services
  • Risk Management
  • Wealth Management

INDUSTRIES

Consulting & Services

A true partner for the most renewed consulting firms, where human capital is the key resource to reshape the business and leverage market evolution. A true partner for a variety of services companies, with their specific challenges.

  • Consulting, Tax, Audit & Legal
  • Facility Management
  • Marketing
  • Media & Publishing
  • No Profit
  • Real Estate
  • Sports & Entertainment
  • Transportation & Logistics
  • Travel & Hospitality

How we do business?

Mission

Our commitment is to be a reliable and attentive Partner in the recruitment process of the best talent and managers on the market.
Thanks to our thorough knowledge of the market of reference and to the consolidated research team, we are able to offer promptness in the search of solutions and in the execution and conclusion of the assigned searches, guaranteeing the maximum confidentiality in respect of the highest ethical values.

Our Approach

Our approach is based upon a proven sequence of steps designed to identify and attract the most qualified candidates for the assigned search:
  • Gathering a deep knowledge of the client company, in terms of culture, values, organization and objectives;
  • Developing a complete understanding of the profile to search, in order to determine the personal and professional characteristics of potential candidates;
  • Identifying target companies where to direct the search of the best candidates for each search project;
  • Thorough evaluation of the identified candidates and reference checking before submitting them to the client company;
  • Presenting a short list of selected candidates;
  • Providing Assistance during every phase of the recruitment and hiring process, supporting clients and candidates during the interviews as well as in the negotiation phase. Our support is guaranteed also after the effective hiring of the candidate, in order to facilitate the induction process in the new company.

Ethics

Respect

? Commitment in finding the best possible solutions

Confidentiality

How we do business?

How we do business?

Mission

Our commitment is to be a reliable and attentive Partner in the recruitment process of the best talent and managers on the market.
Thanks to our thorough knowledge of the market of reference and to the consolidated research team, we are able to offer promptness in the search of solutions and in the execution and conclusion of the assigned searches, guaranteeing the maximum confidentiality in respect of the highest ethical values.

Our Approach

Our approach is based upon a proven sequence of steps designed to identify and attract the most qualified candidates for the assigned search:
  • Gathering a deep knowledge of the client company, in terms of culture, values, organization and objectives;
  • Developing a complete understanding of the profile to search, in order to determine the personal and professional characteristics of potential candidates;
  • Identifying target companies where to direct the search of the best candidates for each search project;
  • Thorough evaluation of the identified candidates and reference checking before submitting them to the client company;
  • Presenting a short list of selected candidates;
  • Providing Assistance during every phase of the recruitment and hiring process, supporting clients and candidates during the interviews as well as in the negotiation phase. Our support is guaranteed also after the effective hiring of the candidate, in order to facilitate the induction process in the new company.

Ethics

Respect

Commitment in finding the best possible solutions

Confidentiality

Our Network

CFR GLOBAL EXECUTIVE SEARCH

CFR Global Executive Search is a growing international Alliance of retained executive search and leadership consulting firms. Our Alliance is based on high-qualified Partners, who share common values and methodologies, delivering cross-border executive search assignment and leadership services. A local insight, within an international environment.

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Executive Search – Board Consulting – Management
Assessment – 360 Degree Feedback Employee
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Outplacement – Strategic HRM – Consultancy

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Partners & Consultant

Founded as an independent company in 2003, Hicons specializes in executive search, operating exclusively through the direct search method. It has positioned itself as an highly professional company, extremely flexible towards the market and client companies’ needs.
In July 2012 Hicons merged with Human Value, where it keeps operating as the Premium brand.
Its partners consolidated experience, matured both in leadership positions within qualified company context and in major executive search companies, guarantees a thorough understanding of the business environment and of the company logics, as well as an extensive network of contacts that enables Hicons to identify in the appropriate timing the best solutions for our clients.

Massimo Capozzi

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Domenico Mistri

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M. Grazia Natale

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Achille Alvisi

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Chiara Chirico

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Stefano Delli Veneri

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CSR.
Entusiasmo
Creatività
Collaborazione

Simple words like enthusiasm, creativity and collaboration can take you far. For us, they represent values that we try to transform into concrete gestures every day. Not only with our work but also with the initiatives we support, to defend children and those in need. We are engaged in a project of distance adoption of 50 children, we contribute to the creation of a library in Congo and we collaborate with a community that supports and gives a chance to immigrant minors.

CSR.
Entusiasmo
Creatività
Collaborazione

Simple words like enthusiasm, creativity and collaboration can take you far. For us, they represent values that we try to transform into concrete gestures every day. Not only with our work but also with the initiatives we support, to defend children and those in need. We are engaged in a project of distance adoption of 50 children, we contribute to the creation of a library in Congo and we collaborate with a community that supports and gives a chance to immigrant minors.

CSR.
Entusiasmo
Creatività
Collaborazione

Simple words like enthusiasm, creativity and collaboration can take you far. For us, they represent values that we try to transform into concrete gestures every day. Not only with our work but also with the initiatives we support, to defend children and those in need. We are engaged in a project of distance adoption of 50 children, we contribute to the creation of a library in Congo and we collaborate with a community that supports and gives a chance to immigrant minors.

CONTACTS

Milano

Via Albricci, 7
20122 Milano

+39 02 88232701

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Roma

V.le dei SS. Pietro e Paolo, 21
00144 Roma

+39 06 54220610

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Bologna

Galleria del Leone, 3
40121 Bologna

+39 051 0958050

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Bergamo

Via delle Querce, 7
24048 Treviolo (BG)

+39 035 6969011

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Padova

Via Oberdan, 20
35122 Padova

+39 049 0990265

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