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Specialties: executive recruitment, succession planning, technology, global market intelligence, career management, innovative candidate channels, stakeholder management, headhunting, research and talent mapping.
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Email: a-mikenw@microsoft.com
Twitter: @Mikekenway
Executive Recruiter, Global Talent Acquisition @ Member of the Global Talent Acquisition team I have the privilege of identifying and engaging with exceptional leadership talent across Europe.
Connecting to develop dialogue for succession planning roles at executive level, including: Area Vice President ,Business Unit Leader & Country Manager positions. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) London, United KingdomTeam Leader @ February 2015 - May 2015 Team Leader, London
April 2013 - February 2015 Country Manager, Stavanger, Norway
Expatriated to Stavanger to launch and lead Hydrogen’s first Scandinavian office due to feedback from existing clients and increased market share.
- Developed and implemented business plan.
- Responsible for recruitment delivery, personal, market strategy and P&L.
- Account managing and new business development.
August 2011 - April 2013 Team Leader, London
- Acting as the main representative with stakeholders for strategic key clients in the EMEA region.
- Man management, achieving budgets and performance monitoring
- Developed and improved processes, standards and KPI’s.
Principal Consultant March 2010 - July 2011, London
Senior Consultant March 2009 - March 2010
Lead recruiter for the European E&P team, mainly within Subsurface technical disciplines to various E&P companies.
Key Achievement: Top billing consultant 2009 -- 2014, Top billing team 2012 - 2013. From April 2009 to June 2015 (6 years 3 months) London, United KingdomProject Lead @ Assigned to Project Lead a end-to-end graduate recruitment programme for one of Australia’s largest organizations within the Technology sector.
Areas of responsibility: talent assessment, interviewing, offering candidates, contract generation, company induction proceedings and weekly reporting.
Key Achievement: Target 80 recruits; overall result was 96 recruits across Melbourne and Sydney locations. Received certificate for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Recruitment of a Technical Graduate Scheme´, signed by the HR Director From May 2008 to October 2008 (6 months) Senior Recruitment Consultant @ Involved throughout the 360 degree recruitment life cycle, strategically opened up several large accounts for the UK Engineering team, organisations such as Siemens, British Nuclear Group and Costain.
Achievements: Manchester Rookie of the Year 2007 From January 2007 to January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
2.2 @ The Manchester Metropolitan University From 2002 to 2006 Michael Kenway is skilled in: Geology, Geophysics, Reservoir Engineering, Reserves, Exploration, Production, Recruitment/Retention, Interviewing, Business Strategy, Bidding, Seismic, Negotiation, Team Leadership, Interviews