Placements are made in Top Echelon Network every week—almost every day, as a matter of fact.  Not only that, but these placements are made in all major industries!

While it’s true that Preferred Member recruiters in the Network make more placements in Manufacturing, Engineering, and Information Technology, they make placements in other industries, as well.  This week’s list of split placements is evidence of that.

Let’s take a look at the positions that were filled recently by Top Echelon Network recruiters:

• Branch Manager-Industrial Distribution
• Civil Engineer/Bridge Group Leader
• VP of Finance
• MS Server Administrator
• Product Manager
• SAP Basis Administrator
• Chemical Engineer
• Senior Statistical Analyst

Are you looking to fill positions just like these?  Do you work with candidates who have these titles?  Then YOU can make placements in Top Echelon Network.  But first, you have to share your job orders and candidates, so do that today and increase your chances of earning more money!

If you have questions about how you can make placements in Top Echelon Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

 

Job order recruiter: Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Randall Hardwick of Avalon Recruiting

Job title: BRANCH MANAGER-INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Juli Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

Job title: CIVIL ENGINEER/BRIDGE GROUP LEADER

Fee percentage—25%

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: Pamela Ratz DeVille, CPC of Managed Medicaid Services

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: VP OF FINANCE

Fee percentage—18%

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

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Job order recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Job title: MS SERVER ADMINISTRATOR

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Frank Wolowicz of Management Search Partners

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PRODUCT MANAGER

Fee percentage—22%

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

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Job order recruiter: Therese Eckhoff, CPC of Recruiting Pros of Chicagoland

Candidate recruiter: Bob Ferris of Ferris & Associates, LLC

Job title: SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Megan Schimmoeller of Bridgeway Professionals, Inc.

Job title: CHEMICAL ENGINEER

Fee percentage—25%

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: Doug Boyce of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Catherine Reynolds of OnBoard Recruitment Advisors

Job title: SENIOR STATISTICAL ANALYST

Fee percentage—25%

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

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When Preferred Members make split placements with other recruiters in Top Echelon Network, they don’t just want to compliment them.  They want to thank them, as well!

Why do they have such an “attitude of gratitude”?  The reason: because they probably wouldn’t have made the placement at all without the help of the other recruiter.  Sure, there’s an outside chance they might have filled the position, but they know that in reality, the chance was slim.

In this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments,” not only do we have two split placements that generated an abundance of gratitude, but we also have two that represent the first Network split that these recruiters made with one another.

It’s almost like a “bonus on top of a bonus, wrapped in a bonus” . . . and that’s certainly something for which to be thankful!

Remember, if you’d like to compliment—and thank—one of your Trading Partners for a recent split placement, send your comments to marketing@topechelon.com, and they could appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“Thanks, Megan, for such a GREAT candidate!  Our client had interviewed a number of new grads for their Chemical Engineering position, but with little success.  [This candidate] will be put on a fast track with our client.  They were so impressed with her.  Also, I think that this may be the first time I have placed a new grad . . . so thank you!”

Submitted by Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC regarding her split placement with Megan Schimmoeller of Bridgeway Professionals, Inc.

Position Title—CHEMICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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“Thanks, Joanna, for sending [this candidate] our way!  This is our first split together—finally!  Yeah!”

Submitted by Brenda Wylie-Biggs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC regarding her split placement with Joanna Spaun of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Position Title—RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Wylie-Biggs and Spaun have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group “disappeared” for a while . . . but now he’s back.

More often than not, Cameron won The Recruiter of the Month Award last year.  Recently, though, other Preferred Members have laid claim to that honor.  Until now, that is.  That’s because Cameron is the Recruiter of the Month for February of 2013.

Not only that, but Cameron was also part of the Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month.  That placement (and its corresponding fee) was largely responsible for pushing Cameron to the top of the Network heap in February.

Cameron, who was the Recruiter of the Year in the Network in 2012, is off to another fast start in 2013.  Can he win that award for the third straight year?  Stay tuned to find out!

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
Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Cameron was one of a handful of recruiters who made two split placements in the Network during the month of February.  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 Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC; David Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.; Jeff Ploeger of Ploeger Recruiting Services; and Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates.

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Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Pamela Ratz Deville, CPC of Managed Medicaid Servicves and Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

The position for this placement was a VP of Finance.  Ratz DeVille was the job order recruiter, and Cameron was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.”

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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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(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.)

It appears the Department of Labor (DOL) will once again be focusing on worker misclassification in 2013.

Staffing Industry Analysts recently reported that the DOL plans to commission a $1.9 million study to determine if workers have knowledge of their employment classification and the implications of that classification.

When a worker is classified as a 1099 Independent Contractor (IC) rather than a W-2 employee, they are not covered by Unemployment or Workers’ Compensation insurance. They are also deprived of minimum wage and overtime pay and do not have taxes automatically withheld from their pay like they would if they were employees.

Because federal law doesn’t currently require employers to inform workers of how they are classified or why, the DOL suspects that workers “may not be prepared for the consequences of misclassification,” according to the Federal Register.  The DOL intends to interview 10,060 workers and 100 executives to gauge workers’ awareness of basic employment laws and the consequences of their classification.

The DOL is soliciting comments on the potential study until March 12.  Additional details, including how to submit comments, are available in the Federal Register.

According to the Federal Register, the practice of misclassifying employees as ICs takes $2.7 billion per year of Social Security, Unemployment, and income taxes out of the federal coffers because companies don’t pay the employer portion of taxes on their ICs. This loss of tax revenue is why the DOL has been cracking down on misclassification over the past few years. Since 2009, the DOL has collected $29 million in back wages for more than 29,000 workers who were determined to be misclassified as 1099 ICs rather than W-2 employees.

As always, we urge you to warn your clients about the dangers of worker misclassification. The DOL is not going away, and the Obama administration’s war against misclassification is only going to intensify, especially since more employers may be tempted to classify workers as 1099 ICs to avoid complying with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) better known as Obamacare.

If you have clients who are utilizing ICs, you can help by offering to convert their ICs to contractors who are W-2 employees of a contract staffing back-office, such as Top Echelon Contracting. The back-office assumes all the employment responsibilities, including providing Unemployment and Workers Compensation insurance, paying the employer portion of taxes, and withholding the appropriate taxes from contractor pay checks. That way, your clients can still enjoy the cost savings of having contractors without the legal risks.

 

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