Looking for fall decor ideas?  Pinterest is your site.  Planning a wedding? Pin away.  Looking for job candidates?  See you later, Pinterest. While extremely popular, Pinterest is often looked at as just a fun, mindless way to pass time.  Sure,…

Even with the employer mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) delayed until 2015, companies are already looking for ways to get around the mandate. But they could find themselves in legal hot water if they adopt…

Just as there were no Virtual Core Group teleconference call meetings during the second week of September, there will be no VCG meetings during the first week of October. In September, the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) Conference was…

A major deadline for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare reform law also known as Obamacare, is coming up quickly.  If a recruiter has even one employee, they will likely have to comply. The ACA requires employers to provide…

I’m very pleased to announce that the Midwest Regional Core Group has a date and a venue for its next meeting! While that date isn’t exactly right around the corner, I encourage those recruiters who can attend to take this…

According to Glassdoor, 68% of job seekers use their mobile device to search for jobs once a week or more. As the number of mobile-dependent job seekers continues to grow, it’s becoming increasingly important that recruiters take their sites mobile. …

At Top Echelon, we encourage Network recruiters to get together on a consistent basis, to meet face-to-face. While we love it when you attend the National Convention and Fall Conference (and we’d REALLY love it if you attended the 2013…

At Top Echelon, we like to feature recruiters who are doing things the right way in the Network.  This, of course, means that we highlight a heck of a lot of recruiters. After all, split placements in Top Echelon Network…

Every once in a while, there’s a “bump in the road” as far as the Virtual Core Group schedule is concerned.  Just such a bump will happen during the second week in September. It’s not really a bump, though.  It’s…

As the biotechnology industry grows, interest in contract staffing among both companies and workers in this area is also increasing, creating a hot new niche for contract staffing recruiters. Biotechnology professionals are those who are involved in the use of…