Almost every week in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we publish recent split placements between Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters.

Along with those split placements, we include the reasons those placements were made, which we list as the “action causing split placement.”  As you may know, these reasons are varied.

In fact, below are the three “actions” causing this week’s split placements:

• The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon’s split databases.

• Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

• The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook recruitment website design.

All of these things were responsible for recent split placements in Top Echelon Network.  So what does this ultimately mean?

It means you should search the split databases, communicate with other Network recruiters, and get a Hiring Hook website!

After all, if it worked for these recruiters, it can work for you, too.  And then your picture will run in this feature, along with the details of your most recent Network placement.  Everybody wins!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Wayne Nunnelee of Nunnelee & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Debi Apple of Apple & Assoc. Inc.

Job title: IT SUPPORT – HELP DESK

Fee percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.

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a href=”http://www.recommendedrecruiter.com/Recruiter/1529/David_M_Sgro” target=”_blank”>Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro, CPC of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: SAP ABAP DEVELOPER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Twanda Deborde of CMD & Associates Executive Search

Candidate recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Job title: HRG

Fee percentage—28%

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

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Job order recruiter: Joe Cotter of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: EE – POWER DESIGN

Fee percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.

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Job order recruiter: Joan Harris of Apple & Assoc. Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Mark Udulutch of Markent Personnel

Job title: SENIOR ENGINEER, PLASTICS/RUBBER MANUFACTURING

Fee percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon’s split databases.

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Job order recruiter:Richard Connors of Vista Technology

Candidate recruiter: Alan Daum of Alan N. Daum & Associates, Inc.

Job title: AUTOMATION ENGINEERS, BIOPHARMACEUTICAL

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Janet Miller of Computer Management, Inc.

Job title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Jeff Peters of Peters Search Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Fee percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.

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Well, if we’re going to highlight longtime Preferred Member recruiter and perennial Top Producer Dan Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc., then we’d better give longtime Preferred Member recruiter and perennial Top Producer Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc. some props, as well.

Not that Sean hasn’t earned such props.  He most certainly has since joining the Network in 2000, and below is the proof:

• 173 placements
• Over $1.4 million cash-in
• Yes, you guessed it—scores of plaques and trophies for achievement

Last year was another powerhouse year for Sean in the Network.  He made a total of 16 split placements, and he’s off to another torrid start—three split placements so far in 2013, including the two that we’ve highlighted below.

Sean is one of just a handful of recruiters with a shot at 200 Network placements (Dan Simmons being another one).  At his current rate of production, if Sean doesn’t reach that plateau this year, he’ll certainly do so in 2014.

Sean’s area of specialization is Information Technology.  If you have a job order or candidate that you think would interest Sean, reach out to him (and be sure that you adhere to the Top Echelon Network Pillar of Quality).

Remember, 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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“Thanks for helping us with this unique search and sending an excellent candidate!”

Submitted by Melinda O’Neill of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC regarding her split placement with Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Position Title—ATG SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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“Great job, Sean!  Keep the excellent candidates coming!”

Submitted by Melinda O’Neill of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC regarding her split placement with Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Position Title—ATG SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that O’Neil and Napoles have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Preferred Member recruiter Dan Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc. has enjoyed a lot of success in Top Echelon Network:

• 178 placements
• Over $1.2 million cash-in
• Scores of plaques and trophies for achievement

A Network Member since 1996, Dan has certainly got 2013 off to a good start.  First, he made the very first split placement in Top Echelon Network.  On the heels of that, he earned “Recruiter of the Month” honors for the month of January!

Dan made seven placements in the Network in 2012, and he appears poised to match (and probably) surpass that total this year.  Dan’s areas of specialization are professionals in sales, marketing, management, production, R&D in animal agriculture.

If you have a job order or candidate that you think would interest Dan, reach out to him.  He’s always on the lookout for new Trading Partners . . . and more split placements!

As always, we recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—“Recruiter of the Month,” “Recruiter of the Quarter,” “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month,” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter.”

For more information about the placements and cash-in totals associated with these awards, please login to the Members’ Area and view the profiles and placement details of the recruiters involved.

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Recruiter of the Month
Dan Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Dan was one of a handful of recruiters who made two split placements in the Network during the month of January.  However, his overall cash-in total for those two placements was larger than anybody else’s total, earning him first place.

Other Preferred Member recruiters who made two placements during the month were Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates and Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC and Jim Folger of ONESource Technical, Inc.

The position for this placement was a Corporate Controller.  Maria was the job order recruiter, and Jim was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a Top Echelon Network Member in my specialty area.”

(Editor’s Note: click here for the “‘Comments’ and Compliments” feature about this placement.)

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Our criteria for these awards:

Top Echelon Network is a split placement network.  As such, we place an emphasis on split placements, and that emphasis constitutes a large part of our criteria for these awards.  We determine the monthly and quarterly award winners based upon two things, which are listed below in order of importance:

1.) The number of split placements made
2.) The amount of cash-in dollars earned as a result of those split placements

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For years, The Cornerstone, the newsletter of Top Echelon contract 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 a 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 statistics regarding contract placements made by Preferred Member recruiters, courtesy of Top Echelon Contracting.

With Valentine’s Day this month (on February 14 . . . in case you were wondering), it’s easy to see why the recruiters below love making contract placements.  They love it namely, because they receive a steady stream of income during the life of the contract assignment.

That means the checks keep showing up in their mail box over and over and over and over—and really, who wouldn’t love that?

Many of the Top Producers in Top Echelon Network have added contract staffing to their recruiting firm’s 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.

(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.)

As job creation in the professional arena continues to drive the economic recovery, the Business Professional and Support Staff sector is becoming one of the hottest areas for contract staffing.

According to Top Echelon Contracting’s 2012 statistics, Business Professional and Support Staff contractors accounted for 25% of our contract placements, compared with 16% in 2011. The only sector to bring in more contractors last year was Healthcare.

This is no surprise.  While jobs lost in the recession were manual manufacturing and construction positions, employment experts have noted that job creation in the recovery is coming from the professional sector.  The unemployment numbers bear this out.  The unemployment rate for degreed, white-collar professionals has remained under 4% even as the overall rate has struggled to get just below the 8% mark.

A recent CNNMoney.com article confirms that workers with the highest levels of education are enjoying the fastest employment gains during the recovery.

“Relative demand for highly educated workers is increasing,” Brookings Institution Senior Research Associate Jonathan Rothwell told CNNMoney.com.  “There’s a long-run shift in the economy toward more professional occupations, and it’s mostly at the expense of blue-collar occupations.”

TEC’s statistics also indicate a change in attitude toward contract staffing among both professional candidates and companies.  Contractors used to be thought of mainly as “temps” working very short-term assignments in clerical and blue-collar positions.

Now companies are utilizing contractors for more long-term (six- to nine-month average) assignments in positions all the way up to the C-suite.  One trend that has come out of this is executive temping, where companies utilize contractors to serve as interim executives to complete executive-level projects or to serve as consultants.

As employers continue to find more ways to cut costs in this roller coaster economy and workers look for increased flexibility, we can only expect this trend to continue.

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