Direct hire recruiting is a study in peaks and valleys. Getting that nice, big direct hire placement fee after putting tons of time and effort into a placement is definitely a peak. But the deep valleys of direct hire dry spells can…

Earlier this year, we introduced a new service level offering for Top Echelon Contracting: TEC Express. Express is designed for contractors who are “office professionals” and would qualify for the Workers Compensation Code 8810 (or equivalent). However, TEC offers more…

You already know that you should offer contract staffing. You know it can help you keep income flowing when direct hire job orders are sparse. And you know that more and more of your clients want contractors and are probably…

You can’t find top passive candidates just lying around somewhere. After all, that’s why companies hire YOU, recruiters. They can’t find them, so they hire you to both find them and recruit them. But sometimes, even you can’t find the…

One of the great things about Top Echelon’s recruiting network is that a recruiter can join and almost immediately “hit it off” with another member. Before you know it, they’re making split placements right and left. In other words, their…

Every search consultant wants to increase their recruiter income. (That probably also means YOU.) Not only that, but it would also be nice if that income was more of a steady stream than a trickle with an occasional flood. But…

Hiring is one of the hardest things companies have to do. If they have a recruiter like you, they can skip some of the hassles, such as sifting through hundreds of resumes. But in the end, the hiring decision is…

Recruiting is full of frustrations. Anybody who’s been in the profession for longer than a day can tell you that. However, there is a certain ebb and flow to these frustrations. Some appear in a certain market, while others are…

The top Network recruiters continue to bill a lot of money through Top Echelon. That’s because the cash-in total for the top five recruiters in August was $242,540! Sure, it’s true that there are some familiar faces in the top…

On the one hand, there aren’t too many members of Top Echelon’s recruiting network that are celebrating an anniversary this month. (At least, not the anniversaries that we recognize, anyway.) On the other hand, we have a Network agency that’s…