The Company

HR Emphasis is a startup HR Consulting and Recruitment firm (national license number: 440), acting as a single stop HR shop through its wide professional network of associates and partners.

With the Founder's experience of more than 17 years in leading companies of all sizes and various sectors (Financial Services, Manufacturing and Employee Benefits), HR Emphasis was created to offer affordable, professional and practical solutions to its clients with respect to their time and investment.

Our competitive advantage is our passion on what we do, our professionalism and our hands-on experience in the industry from the clients' side. Due to this experience we can quickly identify patterns of the problems that most companies face, in order to start working towards their solution the soonest possible.

We differentiate from the competition by offering practical solutions, and outstanding support at a better price. By working with us you will soon realize our in-depth knowledge, business acumen and willingness to go the extra mile for better satisfying our clients.

Our Founder, Martinos Demosthenous, following his studies in Communication and Media (BSc in Communication and Media) and his Master of Business Administration in Human Resources Management (MBA in HRM), started his career in a startup HR Consulting company in Greece, providing Employee Assistance Programs and Wellness Benefits to Fortune 500 companies with branches in Greece and Cyprus. He then moved to Cyprus, serving one of the biggest companies on the island, a leading pharmaceuticals manufacturing company, where he set up their HR Department and led it as the Head of HR for 9 years. He was then headhunted by one of the biggest companies in the world in the Financial Services industry, which he served for 5 years as its Group Head of HR.

During his career, Martinos had the opportunity to consult entrepreneurs, managers and employees of all levels in various industries. He  recruited for hundreds of positions, interviewed thousands of candidates and screened even more CVs. He organized numerous trainings and established performance management systems. He handled mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, mass recruitments and redundancies and he conducted various HR surveys. He drafted and reviewed a high number of policies and procedures, manuals, employee handbooks and contracts in compliance with the local labor law, while he mediated for several disputes and grievances and took respective disciplinary measures and managed tribunals.

Being an in-house HR professional and dealing with many consultants and HR Service providers, Martinos realized that the HR services offered in the local industry could become more affordable, more professional, more practical and less time consuming for the clients, so they can have a higher Return on Investment.

Therefore, after 17 years of a valuable and diverse experience in companies of all sizes and various sectors (Financial Services, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Consulting and Employee Benefits), Martinos decided to start his own company in order to provide better services than the competition, with respect to his clients’ time and investment. 

Through the company's wide professional network of associates and partners he have the aspiration to serve  our clients as a single stop HR shop.

This is how the HR Emphasis was born!