Every once in a while in our “Comments and Compliments” feature, we like to highlight a recruiter who’s “flying under the radar.”  In other words, they’re not a high-profile Preferred Member, but they’re unerringly consistent, year after year. One such…

(Editor’s Note: This is the next in a series of guest blog posts about contract staffing, courtesy of Top Echelon Contracting, the recruiter’s back-office solution.  Similar posts will appear in future issues of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.) A recent article…

The 2012 Top Echelon Network National Convention is next week!  Specifically, it’s scheduled for Thursday, March 22, through Saturday, March 24, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tenn. As you probably know, Top Echelon Network is represented well on…

During the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing the names of our 2011 Network Award Winners, specifically the Top Ten Producing Recruiters and the Regional Award Winners.  These Preferred Members will receive an award for their accomplishments, and if they…

Here’s the great aspect of this week’s split placements in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog: some of the recruiters making split placements have made deals before, while others are making their first split placement with one another. That, in a nutshell,…

Welcome to what might be the most scandalous edition of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” yet!  There’s talk of beer, dancing, and rock and roll! Actually, we’re just exaggerating a bit—but it did get your attention.  As if splitting a hefty placement…

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

Hey—guess what we didn’t do this year? We DIDN’T forget our birthday! The last few years, we’ve had difficulty remembering that the official birthdate of Top Echelon Network was March 8, 1988.  That was the date of the first issue…

“Past behavior is the best predictor of future success.” You’ve probably heard this phrase—or a variation thereof—at one time or another, and it can be applied to just about anything. This week, we’re applying it to the split placements made…

Last week, I presented the names of roughly half of the Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters who were Regional Award winners for 2011. Not only did I publish the names of each Regional Award winner, but I also included…