Believe me, we encourage communication between Top Echelon Network recruiters. We want you to exchange information. After all, we believe in the mantra “iron sharpens iron.” However, there’s a delicate balance that needs to be struck. A recruiter’s time is…

At Top Echelon, we’re always looking for ways to help the Network’s recruiters make more placements. The good news for us is that those recruiters are the ones who show us HOW they make more placements! We published our “‘Comments’…

With the New Year right around the corner, I would like to throw a few definitions at you that will lay the groundwork for this blog post about Network success. Entropy: In any natural process, there exists an inherent tendency…

If you’re a member of Top Echelon’s recruiting network, then you want great recruiter relationships. After all, you’ve made split placements a part of your desk, have you not? During the last several years, we’ve run a segment in The…

Believe it or not, the Thanksgiving holiday is already here! As always, it seems as though Thanksgiving kind of “snuck up” on us this year. (Wasn’t it just Labor Day? Wasn’t Halloween last week?) And along with this holiday, of course,…

You’ve probably heard us mention this once or twice before. But before the Internet changed everything about the way information was presented and transferred, there was a booklet that we sent to new Top Echelon Network members through “snail mail.”…

You’ve probably heard of recruiter branding as it pertains to branding yourself to clients and candidates. But what about as it pertains to . . . other recruiters? Well, if you’re a member of Top Echelon Network, then recruiter branding…

Your elevator speech is the one-minute explanation of who you are, what your agency is, and what you do. It’s called an elevator speech because you need to be able to explain your organization and services in the time you…

“Iron sharpening iron” is what membership in Top Echelon Network is all about, and that is definitely the case with longtime Network members Coleen Balogh-Walther of The Provident Search Group and Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search. Although they didn’t…

Top Echelon Network recruiters hit double digits yet again this past week, racking up 17 split placements! While Michael Stuck, Steve Kohn, and Trey Cameron have been at the top of the rankings during the past several week, Kristy Staggs…