Last week, we disclosed the fact that split placement numbers were up over last year . . . and this week only reinforces that!

That’s because we have more split in this week’s newsletter than we’ve had in recent memory, and there could be even more on the way.  And recruiters are making splits in a lot of different ways—regular communicating, searching the Split Databases, and through their Hiring Hook websites.

That’s exactly what we like to see: Preferred Member recruiters using the tools and services we offer to make more split placements with one another, thereby strengthening their Trading Partner relationships.  The only thing left to do is . . . attend the 2011 National Convention!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: David Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati

Job title: PLASTICS PROCESS ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Chris Ramsay of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Ram Kola of Stewart Cooper & Coon

Job title: SERVER ADMINISTRATOR

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Cynthia Woods of Woods & Paolino Recruiting Solutions

Job title: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Patrick Walsh of the PSW Group

Candidate recruiter: Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

Job title: PURCHASING-SUPPLY CHAIN BUYER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Rowe Henderson of Rowe Henderson & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Jay Laney of The Williams Company

Job title: DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Jed Davis of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Recruiter Name Withheld

Job title: SAN TE

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Kenny Frey, CPC/CSP of The Frey Consulting Group, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Wick of the Career Center of Cincinnati

Job title: LEAD ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Arthur Rogove of Merit Consulting, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Cheryl Fox of Woods & Paolino Recruiting Solutions

Job title: PROGRAM MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Justin Liedel of Reliance Recruiting, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: INTERNAL RECRUITER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through one of the many Hiring Hook recruiting websites.

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Job order recruiter: Denise Milano Sprung of JA Pharma, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: PHYSICIAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: “This candidate was the result of Jim’s website posting for a more senior job.”

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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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We love when things go together in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog—like chocolate and peanut butter!

Speaking of things that go together, the recruiter we’re featuring in this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments” is also the “Recruiter of the Month” for January: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC.

Speaking of chocolate, Hemminger specifically mentions that delicious food in her comments regarding one of the recent split placements she made with a Trading Partner.  Did she mention peanut butter in her comments regarding the other split placement?  No, but now we’re hungry for a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.  Aren’t you?  We thought so.

If you’d like to compliment one of your Trading Partners for a recent split placement (and mention chocolate AND/OR peanut butter in the process), send your comments to marketing@TopEchelon.com, and they’ll appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“We’ve done so many placements with Trey . . . he owes me chocolate!”

Submitted by Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC regarding her split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the third split placement that Hemminger and Cameron have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Randy Wyatt—THE Randy Wyatt.  We’ve partied with him, danced with him, vacationed with him, and finally done a split with him.  Randy shared this candidate with us in 2008, and we finally placed her.  She was sent to us via his website at the time.  Thanks, Randy!”

Submitted by Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC regarding her split placement with Randy Wyatt of Olympus Recruiting (non-Member)

Position Title—MARKET QUALITY ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

(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.)

You probably already know how hot technology hiring is right now.  Well, according to The Wall Street Journal, some of the hottest tech companies are also clamoring for interns, in additional to full-time hires.

Tech companies, ranging from start-ups to household names, are expanding their internship programs, including the following:

• Dropbox—Plans to hire 30 engineering interns
• Google—Hired 1,000 engineering interns this past summer
• Klout
• Twitter
• Facebook—Plans to hire 625 interns for this summer

Why the sudden surge in interns?  Internships allow these companies to get a jump on young talent—some internship programs even target high school students.

More importantly, internships allow them to “try-before-they-buy” and save money in the process.  Interns can usually be paid much less than traditional full-time employees, and they know from the get-go that the positions are temporary.

The tricky thing about internships is that companies sometimes think they don’t have to follow the typical employment laws with interns.  Some even try to implement unpaid internships, which are a no-no in most cases.

A better way to go would be to hire interns as contractors employed through a contract staffing back-office.  That way, companies can benefit from the “low cost, low commitment” tryout internships offer without all the hassles that come with employing those interns.

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When it comes to recruiters who are model Preferred Members in Top Echelon Network, there might not be anybody who can top our most recent “Recruiter of the Month.”

Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC has been a Preferred Member recruiter since 2005, and since that time she’s made a total of 54 placements in the Network.  Hemminger attends Top Echelon Network conferences and conventions, she attends Regional Core Group meetings, and she participates in the Network in as many different ways as she can.

And that’s why she’s made 54 placements, why she’s a Top Producer in the Network, and why she’s the “Recruiter of the Month” for January.  Congratulations, Maria!  Here’s to 54 more Network placements (at least).

We recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in two categories—”Recruiter of the Month” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month.”  Remember, 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
Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Maria was the only Preferred Member recruiter in the Network to make three split placements during the month of January.

Two recruiters made two split placements apiece.  They were Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates and Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Marty Stan of Samaritan Technical Professional and Steve Bret Jensen of Superior Search Consultants, Inc.

The position for this placement was a Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer.  Stan was the job order recruiter, and Jensen was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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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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