Sometimes the stars align and interesting things happen with our weekly feature regarding split placements made in Top Echelon Network—like this week, for instance!

What interesting thing has happened?  There are three Million Dollar Producers included in this week’s edition of our most recent split placements.  Those three are as follows:

• Daniel Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.
• Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.
• Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.

If there was a Top Echelon Network “Hall of Fame” for Preferred Members, these recruiters would most definitely be enshrined (on the first ballot, no less).  But you don’t have to be a Million Dollar Producer or a “Hall of Fame” candidate to be featured in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  All you have do is make sweet split placements . . . we’ll do the rest.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Daniel Simmons of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Rebecca Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: DAIRY NUTRITIONIST

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Jeffrey Linck of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: PEOPLESOFT HR SECURITY ADMIN

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter.

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Job order recruiter: Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Hani Mussa of KnowPeople, Inc.

Job title: UPS TECHNICIAN

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Sent candidate by a Top Echelon Network recruiter

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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For years, The Cornerstone, the newsletter of Top Echelon’s back office staffing, 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 per quarter.  However, we still run contracting statistics in select issues of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  These statistics include Non-Split Contract Placements, Split Contract Placements, and Non-Recruited Placements, among others.

Below are the most recent contracting statistics regarding Preferred Member recruiters, courtesy of Top Echelon Contracting.

Many of the Top Producers in Top Echelon Network have added contract staffing services to their business model and have also taken advantage of the services provided by Top Echelon Contracting, the recruiter’s employer of record services.

For more information about the benefits of contract staffing and the services that Top Echelon Contracting provides, call (888) 627-3678, Ext. 2.

As Preferred Member recruiters in Top Echelon Network, we assume that you like us.  Of course, liking somebody or something these days has taken on a whole new meaning, what with the advent of the highly popular social media site Facebook.

Now you can both like them AND “like” them.

“Liking” in the Facebook sense entails clicking on a thumbs-up icon.  If you use Facebook for personal purposes or your have a Facebook recruiting strategy, you’ve probably done this hundreds (maybe even thousands) of times.  According to Facebook, there are currently 800 million people using the site worldwide . . . so there’s a pretty good chance that you’re using it, too.

If you are, I’d like to invite you to “like” not only Top Echelon Network, but if you use two of our other services—Big Biller recruiting software and Hiring Hook websites—I invite you to “like” those, as well.

Click here to “like” Top Echelon Network on Facebook.

Click here to “like” Big Biller on Facebook.

Click here to “like” Hiring Hook on Facebook.

If you’re a recruiting firm owner, I’m sure that you’d like to have other people “like” your firm, too.  That’s why we would be more than willing to “like” your firm on Facebook.  After all, you’re Preferred Member recruiters in Top Echelon Network.  What’s not to like?

Or, perhaps more specifically, what’s not to “like”?

Just comment at the end of this blog post and include a link to your recruiting firm’s Facebook page, or send an email to marketing@topechelon.com, and we’ll take care of the rest.  And remember, if you have ideas for what we can do to entice you to like us more (not “like” us more), just let us know. As always, we value your feedback.

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(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.)

Technology is changing the way we do almost everything, and it seems that job interviews are no exception.

With the advent of Skype and other Internet video tools, video interviewing is supplementing, and in some cases replacing, the traditional in-person job interview process.

But is it right for you and your clients?

You might want to consider the following pros and cons before deciding whether or not video interviewing is the right way to go:

There are a variety of options for video interviewing, ranging from Skype’s free service to fee-based services that offer advanced features (e.g., allowing a large number of people on the video call).  Typically, video interviewing options can be broken down into two types:

1. Live—These are the kind that are performed on Skype where both the interviewer and candidate are present and interact with each other on the video.
2. Recorded—Interview questions are sent to the candidate, and they record their answers online via their Web cams for the employer to review later. There is no interviewer present.  These are often used in place of phone interviews to pre-screen multiple candidates.

Video interviews may be worth a look, especially if you’re placing contractors.  Contract positions often need to be filled quickly, and the candidates are often remote, making video interviews an attractive option.

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The recruiters featured in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” are veteran recruiters and long-time Preferred Members of Top Echelon Network.  However, they’ve just now made their first split fee recruiting placement with another Network recruiter.

What does that mean?  It means there are always split placement opportunities in Top Echelon’s recruiting network—you just have to look for them.  These recruiters weren’t content to just keep making placements with the same recruiters they’ve been splitting with for years.  They made the conscious decision to entertain the possibility of making splits with new recruiters.  When that happens, to use the words of one of the recruiters below, it’s a “WIN-WIN” for everybody.

So no matter how long you’ve been a Preferred Member or how many split placements you’ve made in the Network or how many split placements you haven’t made in the Network, there could be money just around the corner in the form of a Preferred Member you’ve never worked with before.  So keep your eyes—and your mind—open, and keep sending us your “Compliments.”

If you’d like to compliment one of your Trading Partners for a recent split placement, send your comments to marketing@TopEchelon.com, and they’ll appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“Bruce saw my job order and called me.  His presentation of the candidate was powerful and right on target.  I kept him posted, and we established some ground rules.  If I needed help with his applicant, I would call him.  If not, Bruce would stay in the background.  I understood and had a good vision of my client’s position.  I presented only Bruce’s candidate, and we hit the bullseye.  Bruce, thanks again . . . it’s a WIN-WIN for all!”

Submitted by Bob Wylan of R.A. Wylan & Co., Inc. regarding his split placement with Bruce Widnes of The Recruiting Group, Inc.

Position Title—DIRECTOR OF QUALITY CONTROL
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Wylan and Widnes have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Suzanne was an absolute doll to work with.  I can’t thank her enough for sending me such an awesome candidate and for all of her support during the process.  It is my sincere hope that this is the first of many placements together!  Thank you, Suzanne.”

 Submitted by Debra Stitt, CPC of Quality Source, Inc. of Ohio regarding her split placement with Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates

Position Title—HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: This is the first split placement that Stitt and Griffith have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Remember, if you have compliments for a Trading Partner regarding a split placement, please email them to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

In last week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, I wrote a post about how we’re going to “light the fuse” on Regional Core Groups in 2012.  Well, I want to do the exact same thing with Virtual Core Groups this year!

As I’ve mentioned before, Virtual Core Group meetings are regularly scheduled conference calls for Preferred Member recruiters who work in the same industry or niche.  During these calls, the recruiters share information about the activity that they’re seeing and bounce ideas off each other.  They also share hot job orders and candidates, which can lead directly to recruiters making split placements with one another—which just so happens to be the name of the game.

Below is the current Virtual Core Group conference call schedule for the month of February:

Once again, the first two Thursdays of the month are filled with conference calls and the third and fourth Thursdays are wide open.  I don’t want those dates to be wide open; I want them to be FILLED with Virtual Core Group meetings!  In fact, that’s the goal for this year: for those dates to be filled up each and every month.

If you don’t see your industry or niche represented in the chart above, I am always open to starting a new group.  If you think you’d like to start one—or join an existing one—please contact me as soon as you can.  Let’s not waste time.  Instead, let’s “light the fuse” on Virtual Core Groups and make this one of the best years for VCGs in the history of Top Echelon Network!

I’m Drea Codipsoti, and I approve this message.

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