Mike Astringer Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

As a senior manager and member of the sales talent acquisition team responsible for full lifecycle recruitment of executive level sales professionals to support Cognizant practices. Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era.• Perform as a Talen Acquisition Business Partner and Team Leader.• Work with senior stakeholders (BU Leaders and hiring managers) to plan and implement recruitment efforts to ensure Cognizant makes the best external hires in line with corporate strategy and within preapproved project parameters including quality of hire, cost per hire and time to fill.• Full lifecycle talent acquisition for business unit leadership in identifying, selecting and hiring best in class talent.• Develop and executes candidate generation strategies and build a pipeline of candidates, including direct sourcing candidates in line with talent demand.• Drive processes and best practices for selecting the highest quality candidates and move them through the interview and hire process.• Effectively represent and market the Cognizant employment brand, the organization's business objectives and career options to potential candidates• Guide and mentor team members functioning as a team and BU talent acquisition lead

London, England, Gb

As a member of the global people team lead corporate talent acquisition for the United States and Canada. Responsible for the delivery of the business talent growth plan and resourcing needs and sourcing the best candidates to support business growth targets. HKA is one of the world’s leading providers of consulting, expert and advisory services for the construction and technology industries. • Serve as the talent acquisition lead, business partner and advisor to the Americas leadership team. • Manage and drive talent acquisition strategy and process development and improvements. • Build and manage candidate pipelines and develop Americas talent attraction strategies. • Streamline resourcing processes to optimize efficiencies • Set targets and manage performance of resourcing process to gauge results • Regular reporting on talent acquisition metrics to Americas leadership and UK based people leadership. • Demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and ensure recruitment practices are fair and free from unconscious bias.• Responsible for roles at the associate through the senior director level in Construction and Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Sales and Software.

Human Capital Consultants provided corporate talent acquisition and human resources consulting and outsourcing to startup, mid-market, and vertical leading organizations across the United States. I founded the firm and acted as a hands-on player/coach leading and delivering client engagements as well as leading business development and operations.• Served as a billable resource to corporate clients providing interim talent acquisition and human resources leadership, strategy development and execution and consulting. • Project manage engagements to develop and track client deliverables ensuring that projects are delivered to the satisfaction of clients.• Lead operations to include strategic planning, financials, project delivery, and sales.• Clients included Livengrin Foundation, Accenture, CFG Health Network, OHO Interactive, Lux Research, Hall & Partners, Alliance Life Sciences, FXI, Taunton Interactive, Chemetall Americas, NetProspex.com, IMS Health, Grasshopper.com, Cambridge BioMarketing and other respected firms. An overview of projects delivered can be found in the "Projects" section of my LinkedIn profile.

Reporting to the President served as a member of Career Blazers senior leadership team responsible for leading new business development, account management and staffing operations for Career Blazer’s 56 year established greater New York City market and startup Philadelphia market. Responsible for leadership of sales, delivery, operations and P&Ls. Overall responsibility was to steer the business from losses in prior years to profitability.• Lead a team of Business Development Managers dedicated to developing new staffing business within our verticals.• Lead a team of Account Managers dedicated to gaining further penetration of existing staffing accounts, growing a book of business and recruiting for client staffing requisitions.• Lead a team of Direct Hire Recruiters dedicated to growing direct hire recruitment business within our verticals.• Created a 2005 business plan to strategically bring the New York market from multiple years of financial losses to profitability, including revamping business development and delivery operations for maximum performance.• Created a 2005 business plan to strategically upstart the Philadelphia market and bring the market to profitability.• Created and managed P&Ls for the New York and Philadelphia markets to ensure operations exceeded financial objectives.• As a member of Career Blazers management committee participated in strategic planning to steer the company towards regaining profitability.• Oversaw the successful development and account management of such accounts as Conde Nast, Hearst Magazines, Blumberg Excelsior, Columbia University, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, King Teleservices, Theracare, Toyota Motor North America, Vibe Magazine, and several other top firms in the greater New York and Philadelphia areas.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Lead delivery, operations, P&Ls, account management and new business development in HR consulting and contract and direct hire recruitment primarily in the specialty staffing areas of Information Technology, Engineering, Accounting and Finance, Call Centers and Sales and Marketing for clients throughout Nevada and Northern Arizona.• Established relationships and further penetration of local locations of Manpower Professional national accounts such as Honeywell, Bechtel, Raytheon, IBM, Sprint, U.S. Postal Service, and others.• Oversaw the sales and recruiting teams responsible for serving client engagements.• Responsible for regional budgets and P&Ls for Professional Division operations in 9 regional branches.• An example of clients developed include Mikohn Gaming Corporation, Aristocrat Gaming, International Gaming Technology, City of Las Vegas, Desert Springs Hospital, Clark County Health District, Advanced Information Systems, Sierra Health Services, Nevada State Bank, Clientlogic, PurchasePro and others.