April showers usually bring May flowers, but there might not be too many showers in April this year . . . not if the month of March was any indication.  No, the weather has been downright balmy so far this Spring (and even toward the end of Winter), and as the weather continues to warm up, so are split placements within Top Echelon Network.

This week, we have seven split placements in the Network, and with Summer looming on the horizon, the possibility exists that we may be venturing into double-digit territory every week.  Triple-digit temperatures and double-digit split placements?  There are worse things in the world, that’s for sure.

Once again, we have a mixture of both old and new blood in this week’s split placement installment.  Among the new blood is a pair of recruiters (Greg Johnson and Chip Kerth, CPC) who not only made their first split as Preferred Members, but they also made that split together, placing an Assistant Treasurer in the process.

Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter: old, new, or in between, making placements gets the blood pumping.  So here’s hoping that the temperature—and the number of split placements made by Network recruiters—continues to rise in the months ahead.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Kaleb Dumot of Emerald Resource Group

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: C# DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: The recruiters met at the 2011 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference in Chicago.

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Job order recruiter: Kaleb Dumot of Emerald Resource Group

Candidate recruiter: Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search

Job title: WEB DESIGNER AND DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Eric V. Stearley, CPC of Eric V. Stearley, CPC & Associates

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

Job title: FINANCIAL ANALYST

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Matt Scheihing of J. Miles Personnel Services

Candidate recruiter: Susan Christian of PRI Business Services, Inc.

Job title: PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Dan Lawlor of Dan Lawlor

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

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Job order recruiter: Greg Johnson of the Johnson Resource Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Chip Kerth, CPC of The Personnel Consulting Group

Job title: ASSISTANT TREASURER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Searched Accounting recruiters in Big Biller.

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Job order recruiter: Pamela Ratz Deville, CPC of Managed Medicaid Services

Candidate recruiter: Mark London of Command Consultants, Inc.

Job title: INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN/TRAINING LEAD

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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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.

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.

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The first quarter of 2012 is over!  What does that mean?  That there are three more quarters to go . . . and we have some awards to announce.

However, there are some “old faces” located within this blog post.  One of them is Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group, who has continued the torrid pace he set in 2011.  Another recruiter gaining recognition for his performance during the first quarter is Gene McQueen, also of the Cameron Craig Group.  McQueen not only was in the running for the “Recruiter of the Quarter” award, but he was also part of the “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter” award.

So while last year was a big one for the Cameron Craig Group, this year is shaping up to be not too shabby, either.  Can somebody dethrone Trey Cameron during the second quarter?  Time—and split placements—will tell the tale.

In the meantime, below are the winners of the recognition awards for the first quarter of this year.  We’d like to congratulate those recruiters who earned them and thank them for their efforts.  For more information about the placements and cash-in totals associated with these recognition 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 Quarter
Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Cameron, who seems to be winning this award just about every quarter these days, made a total of seven split placements during the recently completed first quarter.  Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC was second with five split placements, while Gene McQueen of the Cameron Craig Group and David Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc. made four split placements apiece.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter
Steven C. Brandvold of Executive Connection and Gene McQueen of the Cameron Craig Group

This placement was for a Director of Human Resources.  Brandvold was the job order recruiter, and McQueen was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this split placement was listed as, “The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.”

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Our criteria for these recognition awards:

Top Echelon Network is a split placement network.  As such, we place an emphasis on split placements, and that emphasis constitutes the basis of our criteria for these recognition awards.  We determine the quarterly award winners based upon two factors, 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

In other words, the number of split placements that recruiters make is our first consideration.  In the event of a tie, the cash-in total earned from those split placements is the deciding factor and serves to break the tie.  Obviously, the recruiter with more cash-in dollars in the event of a tie is the recruiter who wins the recognition award.

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In 1978, just 34 short years ago, the song “Thank You for Being a Friend” by Andrew Gold reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with that song, it was the theme song for the television show The Golden Girls, which aired from 1985 to 1992.  (And if you STILL aren’t familiar with it, I’ve embedded a YouTube video at the end of this blog post that will assist you.)

Anyway, the recruiters in this week’s edition of “Comments and Compliments” are extremely grateful to their “split placement friends.”  In fact, they went out of their way to thank them for recent split placements that they’ve made together.  So, in a way, you could call this the “Thank You for Being a [Split Placement] Friend” edition.  If you don’t, I will.

Recruiters in this Network are glad that their Trading Partners can help them make placements, and they want to thank them for being not only great Trading Partners, but in many cases, for being great friends, as well.

If you’d like to thank another recruiting network for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“Thanks for a great candidate, Dave!”

Submitted by Rose Langhals of Bridgeway Professionals, Inc. regarding her split placement with David Wick, CPC of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.

Position Title—MANAGER OF ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS
Fee Percentage—20%

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

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“Yeah . . . ANOTHER split with Trey.  If it wasn’t for Trey’s [Hiring Hook website], we would not be making these out-of-state placements in GEORGIA!”

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 sixth split placement that Hemminger and Cameron have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Janet, thanks for your help throughout the process.  You were instrumental in making this happen.”

Submitted by Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc. regarding his split placement with Janet Miller of Computer Management, Inc.

Position Title—SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the fifth split placement that Tappis and Miller have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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There are many recruiters who don’t want to take time out of the office to attend events like the 2012 Top Echelon Network National Convention. They believe that time out of the office will hamper them in their efforts to make placements.

Judging by what happened with the Preferred Member recruiters who attended the convention recently, that argument doesn’t hold much water.

That’s because a total of nine recruiters made placements while they were attending the convention in Nashville, Tenn.  These are recruiters with offices all around the country, working in different industries and with different business models.

Regardless of those differences, nine of them shared at least one thing in common: closing deals without physically being in the office.

The advent of technology is a major contributor, of course.  These days, all a recruiter needs is a Smartphone and access to the Internet to stay connected to their office:

• They can make phone calls to candidates.
• They can make phone calls to clients.
• They can make phone calls to other people in their office.
• If they use an online recruiting software program like Big Biller, they can access their database for important information.

In fact, in regards to that last point, Joanna Spaun of MJ Recruiters, LLC logged in to her Big Biller account to retrieve the phone number of a candidate.  Her retrieval of that information allowed her to call the candidate and close the deal.

Click here to see a photo of Spaun after she made her placement.

Nobody likes to spend time out of the office, especially when your pipeline is stuffed full of time-sensitive job orders.  After all, “time kills all deals.”

Attending events like the National Convention isn’t necessarily a deal-killer, though.  Recruiters can—and do—step out of training sessions to make calls and take calls . . . and sometimes, they have a smile on their face when they return.

And that’s because they just made a placement.

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