Top Echelon Network celebrated its 24th anniversary last month.  What does that mean? That we’re currently in our 25th year of existence! Well, it means more than that, too.  It also means that we’ll be celebrating our 25th anniversary next…

Lessons happen in the world of recruiting all the time.  It doesn’t matter if you’re a new recruiter or a grizzled veteran.  Not two placements are exactly the same, and each one presents its own set of unique challenges and…

(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.) Most people in recruitment expect…

The next meeting of the Northeast Ohio Regional Core Group is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, at Shula’s Steak House II in Independence, Ohio.  It’s recommended that attendees arrive at 6 p.m. if they’d like to engage…

Every recruiter who takes a job order from a company wants that company’s hiring manager to be thrilled when they eventually fill the order with the recruiter’s candidate.  Not just satisfied, but thrilled.  That’s because thrilling a hiring manager with…

There are many, many ways that Preferred Member recruiters can make split placements in Top Echelon Network—and this Pinnacle Newsletter Blog post illustrates that! In fact, it’s a veritable “grab bag” of split placement action . . . perhaps for…

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….

I have great news: the dates AND the location for the 2012 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference have been set! Those dates are Thursday, October 11, and Friday, October 12. The location, of course, is Chicago.  More specifically, though, the…

For the longest time in Top Echelon Network, the mack-daddy of industries was Industry and Manufacturing (discipline code 25).  Why is that?  Because Preferred Member recruiters in the Network made the most placements in that industry, and they did so…

Okay, now we get down to the nitty-gritty.  When it comes to the Top Echelon Network statistics for the first quarter of 2012, that is. In this blog post, we’re including some of the numbers that recruiters always seem to…