Angelo Ciaramella

Angelo Ciaramella serves as a lecturer and Competence Center Manager for the CAS FH in Strategic Talent Acquisition, while operating as Managing Director of ciaramella & partner GmbH and founder of the People Attraction Institute. His professional affiliations include board membership at the HR Association ZGP and advisory roles for HR Today, positioning him at the intersection of academic instruction and industry transformation in talent management.

Ciaramella's research focuses on the strategic evolution of People Attraction beyond traditional HR frameworks, emphasizing data-driven competence centers, sales-oriented service divisions, and value-added consulting units. His work examines how changing market demands necessitate repositioning talent functions as strategic sparring partners and change agents, with particular attention to AI integration and organizational development in recruitment processes. This research bridges academic theory with practical implementation across insurance, banking, media, manufacturing, real estate, transportation, and IT sectors.

His recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward redefining talent acquisition as a revenue-generating strategic function rather than a transactional HR activity. The articles reveal consistent themes of operational transformation, technological integration (particularly AI), and the critical need for change agent skills among executives leading talent functions. Ciaramella consistently advocates for holistic people attraction models that function as value-adding strategic units rather than support services.

Through ciaramella & partner GmbH, he operationalizes these concepts by running Switzerland's first CAS FH in Strategic Talent Acquisition, developing client recruitment processes to achieve state-of-the-art Holistic People Attraction Excellence. The consultancy's approach emphasizes agile solutions that transform people attraction into a strategic sparring partner, data-driven competence center, sales-oriented service division, value-added consulting unit, and change agent for executives – embodying the theoretical frameworks explored in his publications.