If there’s one thing that we like to do at Top Echelon, it’s highlight “model Network recruiters” in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog. There are many qualities and characteristics of a “model Network recruiter.” Among other things, they: Have a split-minded…

The Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network almost always serve as the basis of success for Preferred Members of Top Echelon. And while Top Producers utilize all of the Pillars at one time or another—Quality, Communication, Trust, and Active Participation—one…

Not many recruiters can say they’ve pushed Top Echelon Network co-founder Mike Kappel into a swimming pool. Twice. Not many recruiters can say that they’ve billed $1 million through Top Echelon Network and $1 million through Top Echelon Contracting. (Now…

Although recruiter Al Katz of First Search, Inc. is not a Charter Member of Top Echelon Network, he would be inducted into the Top Echelon Hall of Fame. If there was a Top Echelon Hall of Fame, that is. During…

There are some recruiters who, prior to joining Top Echelon Network, believe that other recruiters who work in their niche are competitors. Once they join, though, they come to welcome those same recruiters as collaborators and split recruiting partners. Before…

On November 2, 2015, Joe Cresci of Food Management Search joined Top Echelon Network. So in just a couple of days, Joe will be celebrating his seventh anniversary as a Network member. And how productive has he been during the…

Phil Hurd of Oculus Search Partners is both a success story and a case study for the proper way to approach membership in Top Echelon Network. And the first time he joined the Network, he quit. However, success in Top…

Some recruiters who join Top Echelon Network are not exactly what you would call “split-minded” before becoming a TE member. For them, there is sometimes a rocky transition, even if they eventually enjoy a measure of success. Other new members,…

When Brian Abrams of PMO Partners joined Top Echelon Network on Valentine’s Day in 2020, he told Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti that he was going to be a Top Producer and bill a quarter of a…

It’s a perfectly natural occurrence for a recruiter to be skeptical about Top Echelon’s recruiting network. A network of recruiters who share job orders and candidates and who work together to make split placements? And they share the fee ….