We’ve written about how to make Top Echelon Network split placements in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, and we’ve written about the importance of networking in the making of those placements.

One thing of which we never tire, though, is publishing comments from recruiters who have just made their first split placement with another recruiter. (And by that, we mean their first split placement as a member of Top Echelon Network with another Network member.)

The reason is simple. Below are some of the words and phrases that these members used after making their first split with another TE recruiter:

• “Awesome”
• “Fantastic”
• “Great”
• “Happy”

“First split” leads to “multiple splits”

It doesn’t get much more straightforward and clear-cut than that. However, here’s the really good part of all this:

Recruiters who make their first split placement together are now more likely to make multiple split placements together.

That’s because they’ve been through the process once, they enjoyed the process, they made a placement, and it was a positive experience (see the adjectives listed above). That’s because the journey of a hundred placements starts with a single one . . . or something like that.

If you’re looking to build and nurture trading partner relationships like the ones listed below, then I encourage you to contact Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at 330.455.1433, x156 or via email at drea@topechelon.com.

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Mary Anne Buckley, CPC

Diane Rothong

“This is my first deal with Diane. She did an awesome job of assisting me with this search and sent me a fantastic candidate that she had known for years. We walked all the way through the process and a had a great outcome for all involved!”

Submitted by Mary Anne Buckley, CPC of Interstate Recruiters Corp regarding her Network split placement with Diane Rothong of Worksource 2000, Inc.

Position Title—ASSOCIATED DIRECTOR, MED COMM INTERCONTINENTAL

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Pat McCombs, CPC

Steve Kohn

“This is my first placement with Steve Kohn! Hopefully we will have many more! Thanks, Steve, for a great candidate!”

Submitted by Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC regarding her Network split placement with Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Position Title—HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Pete Chunka

Mark Fries

“Happy to get our first split with Fries Executive Search!”

Submitted by Pete Chunka of Top Hire Recruitment regarding his Network split placement with Mark Fries of Fries Executive Search

Position Title—SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

For quite some time now, we’ve been under the impression that the average tenure of a recruiter in Top Echelon Network was 15 years. In other words, that the average length of time that a Network member has been a recruiter is 15 years.

Well, just recently we became curious as to how accurate that claim really was. So we decided to ask Network Members just how long they’ve been in the recruiting business—in the form of a poll.

The results? It appears as though the average tenure of a recruiter in Top Echelon Network might be longer than 15 years.

To find out this information, we polled the Membership by posting the question below:

How long have you been a recruiter?

Results:

The choice of answers that we provided is listed below, along with the percentage of recruiters who selected each one:

• Less than five years — 13.1%
• Between 6 and 10 years — 9.8%
• Between 11 and 15 years — 9.0%
• Between 16 and 20 years — 31.3%
• Between 21 and 25 years — 9.0%
• Over 25 years — 27.9%

Summary:

We were a little surprised to learn that close to 47% of Network members have been in the recruiting game for 20 years or more. That’s because 27.9% chose “over 25 years” as their answer and another 9% selected “between 21 and 25 years.” However, the most popular answer was yet another choice, and that was “between 16 and 20 years,” which garnered 31.3% of the overall vote.

Next was “less than five years” at 13.1%, and then “between 6 and 10 years” at 9.8%. Tied for last place were “between 11 and 15 years” and “between 21 and 25 years.” Both of those choices accounted for 9% of the responses.

Analysis and Conclusion:

Based on those statistics, it might be appropriate to conclude that the level of recruiting experience in Top Echelon Network has increased during the past several years. After all, according to the results of this poll, over 68% of Network members have been in the recruiting profession for 16 years or longer. With that in mind, it would be impossible to deduce that the average tenure of a TE member is 15 years in the profession.

In all actuality, that average now leans more toward 20 years of experience in the recruiting profession. While newer agencies and recruiters are still part of TE, Network members on average are still far more experienced than inexperienced. In the final analysis, though, this bodes well for the success of the recruiters in Top Echelon Network, especially in regards to their opportunities to make more split placements and generate more revenue for their firms.