Two people from Ticino, two different language regions.
We're not a big national agency: we're two people from Ticino who experienced firsthand what it means to relocate to another region of Switzerland for work. Emanuele has already done it, in German-speaking Switzerland; Luca is still doing it, in French-speaking Switzerland.
Luca Gingras
From Ticino, he still lives in French-speaking Switzerland: every day he works in a different language and region from the one he grew up in. He knows first-hand the difficulties of changing region for work and directly manages relationships with partner agencies in Romandy.
Get to know Luca
Emanuele Piazza
From Ticino, he has already been through this: he worked in German-speaking Switzerland and knows what it means to start again in another language, with new colleagues and new habits. He manages relationships with partner agencies in German-speaking Switzerland.
Get to know EmanueleWhy "passo·oltre"
The name comes straight from Italian. "Passo" is both a movement and the first person of the verb passare (to pass, to go) - I go, I move beyond. "Oltre" gives the direction: further, on the other side of a border.
It's not a name we picked at a desk. It's what we lived through first: packing a suitcase, learning to work in another language, rebuilding a network of contacts from scratch in a region that wasn't our own. We took that step beyond the language border ourselves - and we want to make it a little easier for whoever's about to take it next.
There's also a longer-term idea behind the name: we believe in a more fluid Swiss job market, one where people move because it's the right choice for them - not because they're missing the right information - and where staying close to home, when that makes sense, stays just as valid an option as any other. A digital, paperless process, with fewer pointless trips for a first interview that goes nowhere: for us, that's a small step beyond too - toward a more sustainable way of looking for work.
exactly what it sounds like - and the same idea behind our tagline, "Beyond your limits."
An information barrier, not an access one.
The agencies already exist
There are active placement agencies in every region. The problem is knowing which ones to contact when you want to work outside your home region - perhaps in another language.
One profile, one explicit choice
We collect the profile once and forward it, only with your consent, to the language region where you genuinely want to try working.
Born from lived experience
We're not a big national agency: we're two people from Ticino who experienced firsthand what it means to relocate to another region of Switzerland for work. Emanuele has already done it, in German-speaking Switzerland; Luca is still doing it, in French-speaking Switzerland.