With the first month of 2025 nearly “in the books” (how did that happen so quickly?), now is the perfect time to evaluate how your tools and strategies can help you excel in 2025.

If you’re currently subscribed to the Standard Tier of TE Recruit, then we have an exciting opportunity for you: a free trial of the Professional (Pro) Tier!

But there’s one simple step you need to take first: request a live demonstration of the Pro Tier with our Pro Tier Specialist.

Why Upgrade? Pro Tier Features and Savings

With the Professional Tier, you gain access to a robust suite of features designed to streamline your recruiting process and give you a competitive edge. And here’s the best part: opting for the annual plan lets you enjoy these premium features at a discounted rate.

Here’s how it works:

• The monthly cost for the Pro Tier is $110.
• If you pay annually, the cost drops to $89 per month—the same price as the Standard Tier on a monthly plan.
• So, by choosing the annual plan, you get Pro Tier features at Standard Tier pricing.

Current Pro Tier Features

The Pro Tier already includes powerful tools that can help you save time and make more placements. In fact, below is everything that the Pro Tier offers that the Standard Tier does not:
We’ve recently added even more enhancements to the Pro Tier, making it an even smarter choice for your team:

1. Custom Careers Page Forms and Questionnaires: Tailor your application process with customizable forms and surveys.

2. Organization Chart Builder for Reports: Visualize team structures effortlessly with this robust reporting tool.

3. Smart-TE’s AI Job Description Generator: Generate detailed job descriptions automatically based on key role requirements.

4. Smart-TE’s AI Search String Generator: Create optimized search strings with AI assistance for better candidate sourcing.

5. Increased Storage: Enjoy 100 GB of storage space (compared to 10 GB on the Standard Tier).

6. Higher Email Limits: Send up to 10,000 emails per month (double the Standard Tier limit).

7. More Frequent Data Backups: Weekly backups ensure better data security (versus monthly on the Standard Tier).

Exciting Upcoming Features

We’re constantly innovating, and new Pro Tier features are on the horizon, including:

• Themes: Todd Bossler previewed this upcoming new feature during his December Training Tuesday webinar!
• Sequencing: This is the next logical step for Automations and will be ready for beta testing early next year!

Take the Next Step: Book a Demo

Ready to see the Pro Tier in action? Schedule a free personalized demo with a Pro Tier Specialist to explore how these features can transform your recruiting strategy:

Yes, I want a demo of the Pro Tier!

At Top Echelon, we’re committed to helping you succeed. We’ve been doing it for nearly 37 years and we’re excited to continue this tradition of excellence.

Request a demo of the Pro Tier and get your free trial. See what you’ve been missing . . . and what you could have!

Top Echelon offers a free monthly webinar as part of its Expert Recruiter Coaching Series.

These webinars touch upon a variety of recruiter-related topics. These topics deal with both job candidates and clients. As always, our goal with these webinars is to help agency recruiters and executive search consultants just like YOU make more placements.

We record these webinars for recruiters who can’t attend the live presentation, and we’re now pleased to offer the video from our most recent webinar by Alexis Meschi of ORA Marketing.

The title of that webinar (and corresponding training video) is “Power Marketing Strategies for Recruiters to Drive More Business.”

Below is the official description for this training video:

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Alexis Meschi

Do you open LinkedIn every day, knowing you should post, but end up staring at the screen, unsure what to do? Or maybe inspiration strikes, but a busy schedule gets in the way, leaving you back at square one.

You can’t afford to miss out on the power of marketing anymore!

If you’re ready to break the cycle and turn your personal brand into a lead-generating powerhouse in 2025, this session is for you. Join Alexis Meschi, CIO of Ora Marketing—a marketing agency dedicated to recruiters—for an actionable webinar video designed to help you create consistent inbound leads and drive revenue.

Alexis will share Ora’s proven content model that empowers recruiters to position themselves as authentic authorities in their industries. You’ll learn three types of weekly content that will elevate your online presence, attract your ideal clients, and establish you as a go-to expert in the recruitment space.

Don’t miss this opportunity to start the new year with a powerful strategy to grow your business and your brand!

Watch this FREE training video!

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Recorded versions of our Expert Recruiter Coaching Series of webinars are posted on our website as free online recruitment training courses in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Library.

Keep an eye out for the next free webinar in our Expert Recruiter Coaching Series!

I’m pleased to announce the Virtual Core Group (VCG) meeting schedule for the month of February!

For those of you who don’t know, TE Network recruiters share the following information during Virtual Core Group teleconference call meetings:

• Hot job orders and candidates
• Information about the activity they’re seeing in the marketplace and/or in their niche
• Ideas for increased production on their desks and within their agencies

These are the activities that lead most directly to making more split placements in TE Network.

So that is why I’m inviting—or in other words, strongly encouraging—you to attend one of this month’s Virtual Core Group meetings. Below is the complete VCG schedule for February, including the industries involved and the time that each meeting will be held. (Note: all times are Eastern.)

Tuesday, February 11:

• 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. — Law & Legal Services
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. — Sales & Marketing

Wednesday, February 12:

• 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. — Manufacturing/Engineering
• 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. — Information Technology
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. — Biotechnology/Pharmacology

Thursday, February 13:

• 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. — Architectural/Engineering/Construction
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. — Accounting & Finance

You can join the meeting to which you belong by accessing the information listed below.

Google Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/qba-qdic-kou

Below is the agenda for each Virtual Core Group meeting:

1. Welcome
2. Roll call of the members
3. I will share the latest software updates for both TE Network and the Top Echelon recruiting software (also known as TE Recruit).
4. Members will share their hot jobs with corresponding group discussion.
5. I will direct a software and Network protocol Q&A session to close the call.

It is my goal that this agenda will help you take away more from the meeting than just hot jobs and/or candidates. Hopefully, it will help make you more knowledgeable in terms of the Top Echelon community.

If you’d like to join one of the groups listed above or if you’d like to start a new group, please contact me.

You can do so by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.