FAGEPA & Partners was founded in 1981 by Girolamo Frisina, former Human Resources Manager in a leading retailing company and later in a major telecommunications multinational.
Now, as Managing Director of the Company, he is assisted by a number of search professionals who have held key management positions in industry and services and is supported by a multilingual staff.
Since its foundation, Fagepa has undertaken each and every search as in a mission, with enthusiasm and honesty, wanting to grow together with its clients. These are to be found mainly in the sectors of energy, electronics, telecommunications, financial services, large-scale retailing and catering.
In its dialogue with clients, Fagepa relies on the specific business experience of its consultants to gain a profound and comprehensive understanding of client’ requirements. The firm considers it essential to understand the organisational climate and identify those "environmental" difficulties which the candidate may encounter. It is important to find people not only with outstanding professional achievements, but whose personal characteristics, ability to integrate and potential enable them to fit rapidly into their new workplace and effectively meet the requirements of the client company and the market.

Selection of middle and top management candidates is characterised today by a number of complexity that render the process particularly difficult. 
First of all, the dialogue with the client company call for a consultant / selector with specific business experience that allows him not only to open efficient communication channels with the client, but also to interpret the latter/s requirements in the best possible manner. 
It is not only a case of defining professional and personal capabilities to meet the requirements of the company/s organisational position and of the particular product sector, but also to understand the organisational climate and any eventual "environmental" difficulties that the future new staff member may come across. This is for the purpose of identifying candidates who not only have a background comprising significant specific professional successes but, above all, who possess personal characteristics, the ability to adapt and a potentiality such as to enable them to fit into the new position in a short period of time, coherently and efficiently, and be ready to meet the company’s future requirements.

After the candidate in hired, a twelve-month follow-up period is planned for the purpose of resolving in a constructive manner any eventual small difficulties arising during the candidate’s integration in the company. 
Our basic philosophy is that of establishing a profitable and continuous dialogue with the client: for this reason we guarantee the repeating of the process without further charges to the company in the event that the new staff member should resign during the follow-up period.

The selection process itself implemented by using the most modern valuation techniques, in any case favours interpersonal discussions and comprises, on the part of the consultant, the in-depth study and focusing of the candidate’s personal and professional qualities.
The formal presentation is directly conducted by the consultant who, if requested, will assist the client company in that final phase and in the definition of the contract terms.
Another important aspect is that of monitoring the relationship with the candidate up to the conclusion of the selection process, in order to avoid painful renunciation after months of work as a result of problems that could have been easily solved at the particular moment.

On the basis of our experience to date and of our desire to maintain a correct professional relationship with the client, founded on the advance determination of each contractual clause, we have decide to favour the establishment of a fixed fee, commensurate with complexity of the selection.