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  The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 Mark Wolbarst 

 President & Principal Recruiter

  Mark Wolbarst has been focused on executive search and recruiting for 28 years. In 1990, he started the firm Forsyte Associates, Inc. specializing in talent search and recruiting for the Software industry nationally. At Forsyte, sales,pre-sales and sales management careers are the major focus across all types of application software.

   Because of Mark's corporate recruiting experience at ADP and his 28 years of national contacts within the HCM, Talent Management and ERP software and services industry, he is especially adept at achieving excellent results with clients and candidates in these niche areas.

 Gary Mika 

  Senior Executive Recruiter

  Gary has more than 30 years of Talent Acquisition experience, in Corporate and Agency environments. Most recently Gary has been the Director of Recruiting for Advanced Technology Services, where he led a recruiting team across all functional areas, Executive, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, IT, Corporate and all field operations roles. The team filled approx. 1200 positions annually. Prior to ATS, Gary spent 21 years at ADP, a $10b Global leader in HCM solutions. During his time there he was responsible for Sales Recruiting as an individual contributor and then promoted numerous times to Director over all functions for the National Accounts Division of ADP. As the business centralized the Staffing function, he was then given the role of Sr. Director, Staffing- leading 30+associates- recruiters, managers, and contractors- in the hiring of 3,000 people annually. He has extensive knowledge of ATS-most recently Taleo, Social Media strategies,and Recruiting CRMs.

Gary has designed and facilitated training for all levels of Recruiters on the topics of Intake Sessions, Pursuing Passive Candidates, Improving the Candidate Experience, Pre-Close and Presenting Offers, Targeted Selection, Interview Model-BBI, Crucial Conversations and the Speed of Trust {Covey}. Gary has vast experience recruiting all functions and levels in an organization, and believes the first impression is critical to establishing trust, which is the most important element of being successful for the client and candidate.