(Editor’s note: the following article is by industry trainer and speaker Barb Bruno, CPC/CTS of Good as Gold Training. Barb has served as a keynote speaker at recruiter networking events like the Top Echelon National Convention and Fall Conference multiple…

It’s April 18! It’s Tax Day since the Internal Revenue Service gave us an additional day since their website blew up! Pay your taxes! (Wasn’t that nice of the IRS?) But since we’re talking about money, why we talk about…

Recruiters are often overwhelmed by the prospect of determining the rates for a contract placement. As a result, they avoid adding contract staffing to their business model. That is a mistake! Fortunately, it is an avoidable mistake. Calculating rates for…

It’s a candidates’ market. That means a lot of things. One of them is that recruiters contact passive candidates at work. A lot. These candidates’ reaction to being contacted at work can vary, as you well know. One of the…

For many years, The Cornerstone, the newsletter of Top Echelon Contracting, was sent to the recruiters of Top Echelon Network. The Cornerstone was eventually discontinued in favor of another newsletter, Contracting Corner, which is now published once a quarter. However, we…

Everybody in Top Echelon’s recruiting network wants to be a good trading partner. (At least . . . we hope that everybody in the Network wants to be a good trading partner.) But how do you go from being a…

(Editor’s note: the following article is by industry trainer and speaker Barb Bruno, CPC/CTS of Good as Gold Training. Barb has served as a keynote speaker at recruiter networking events like the Top Echelon National Convention and Fall Conference multiple…

At Top Echelon, we’ve found that the best way to communicate the trading partner benefits associated with Network membership is to use real, live case studies. Recruiters love placements, and they love stories about recruiters making placements. (The only thing…

Is there any doubt that Al Daum of Alan N. Daum & Associates is a model Top Echelon Network recruiter? (That’s an easy question. We’ll answer it for you. There is NO doubt that Al is a model Network recruiter.)…

No, the people pictured about are NOT the top contract placement recruiters in Top Echelon Network for 2017. It’s just a stock photo, for crying out loud. No, the list of the top contract placement recruiters in TE for 2017…