Who is Crossroads ?

Manuela Forno has a concrete 15 year long experience in Human Resources, acquired within large-sized multinationals (SGS, Hewlett Packard, Capital International), and more specifically in terms of training, recruiting, management coaching, mediation, conflict resolution and career assessment.

In 2002, she founds her own company - Crossroads / Professional Guidance- specialized in career assessment, talent development and professional orientation.

Manuela Forno has also been working for several Swiss and international universities as a career counselor.

She is regularly publishing HR articles in various Swiss publications, such as Success & Career, Master, Bachelor.

For more information,
do not hesitate
to contact us

by phone at:
+ 41 22 301 44 81

or by mail at:
mforno@crossroads.ch

• Do you wish to have a profession that makes sense to your life? Or give a new orientation to your career ?

• Are you going through tough times at work ?

• Do you need to look for a new job and wish to optimize your CV or prepare for interviews ?

• Would you like to support your child in choosing a job which is in line with his/her personality and core motivations ?

This is the mission of Crossroads - Professional Guidance: to help you find a profession that is a true reflection of your inner self. Time has come now to be fully aware of your own value, of your true preferences, of your personal talents, so as to contribute and express to the outer world what’s most precious within you.

”It is by discovering and fully accepting who you are that you will know what you want to do with your life”

Our Services
We are a career assessment center which :

• Is accredited to use recognized and innovative career assessment tools (MBTI®, HBDI®, Pulsions®)
• Considers the individual in his/her unicity and globality, entire path of life and core values
• Reveals talents and potential and aims at integrating them within your life
• Identifies emotional blocks and helps the individual to overcome them
• Raises awareness of the role, functioning, motivations for each person at work and, more extensively, in life
• Has an in-depth experience in Human Resources and a solid knowledge of today’s labor market in Switzerland

Crossroads also provides companies with various HR consulting services, such as :

• development of talent pools,
• elaboration of competency grids as well as HR procedures,
• transition services (internal reorientation or outplacement),
• exit interviews,
• 360 degree feedbacks,
• translation services (from English/German/Italian into French).

Crossroads also offers its support to HR departments as a dedicated HR business partner. For more details about this exclusive service, please consult our brochure.

Some companies references (in alphabetical order)

Addax Petroleum Services Ltd.
Addex Pharmaceuticals S.A.
Barclays Bank (Suisse) S.A.
Capital International S.A.
La Commune de Meyrin
Dynapresse Marketing S.A.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Givaudan Suisse S.A.
Heerema International S.A.
Kredietbank (Suisse) S.A.
Lloyds TSB International Banking
Migros Genève
Naville S.A.
PepsiCo International
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Saxo Bank (Schweiz) AG
SUVA Genève