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Congratulations are in order once again for recruiter Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc. That’s because not only is Steve the Recruiter of the Month in Top Echelon Network for March, but he’s also part of the Largest Split Fee of the Month!

Steve made that split placement with Carol McBride of RCC Group, LLC. Steve and Carol placed a Controller – CFO to earn a recruiting fee of $37,500 at 25%.

As a friendly reminder, Top Echelon determines the monthly and quarterly winners of its Network split fee recruiting awards in four distinct categories:

1.) Recruiter of the Month
2.) Largest Split Fee of the Month
3.) Recruiter of the Quarter
4.) Largest Split Fee of the Quarter

We only announce the winners of these awards in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog. We do so usually (but not always) in the issue following the conclusion of each month and/or quarter.

So congratulations to everybody on the list below for scoring some BIG placement fees during the month!

Largest Split Fees – March 2024

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First Place:

Carol McBride of RCC Group, LLC and Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Steve Kohn

Carol McBride of RCC Group, LLC

Carol McBride

The position for this split placement was a Controller – CFO and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 25%.

Carol was the job order recruiter and Steve was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $37,500.

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Second Place:

Roberto Briones of R.A. Briones & Company and Mark Steele of Steele Staffing, LLC

Mark Steele of Steele Staffing, LLC

Mark Steele

Robert Briones, CPC of R.A. Briones & Company, Inc.

Robert Briones, CPC

The position for this split placement was a Plant Operations Manager and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 25%.

Roberto was the job order recruiter and Mark was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $34,923.75.

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Third Place:

Bernie Nutter of Hire Horizons and Fernando Gimenez Nuti of Global Executive & Technical Search

Bernie Nutter, CPC of Hire Horizons

Bernie Nutter, CPC

Fernando Gimenez Nuti of GETS Partners

Fernando Gimenez Nuti

The position for this split placement was a Maintenance Lead – Food Manufacturing and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 30%.

Bernie was the job order recruiter and Fernando was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $28,500.

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Fourth Place:

Sherry Umpleby of Innovative Search Solutions and Kyle Largent of Work Life Recruiting

Kyle Largent of Work Life Recruiting

Kyle Largent

Sherry Umpleby of Innovative Search Solutions

Sherry Umpleby

The position for this split placement was a Finance Manager – Manufacturing and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 22%.

Sherry was the job order recruiter and Kyle was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $27,830.

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Fifth Place:

Tom LaRosa of RML Specialty Group, LLC and Maxwell Davis of Higher Talent Group, LLC

Maxwell Davis of Higher Talent Group, LLC

Maxwell Davis

Tom LaRosa of RML Specialty Group, LLC

Tom LaRosa

The position for this split placement was a Senior Flight Test Engineer and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 15%.

Tom was the job order recruiter and Maxwell was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $27,750.

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If YOU want to make more money through Top Echelon’s recruiter network, then contact Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

You can reach Drea by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

Congratulations are in order for Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc. That’s because Steve is Recruiter of the Month in Top Echelon Network for the month of March!

Steve edged out Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting for the top spot. Although Brad made four split placements to Steve’s three, Steve boasted the higher cash-in total for those three splits ($35,946.70 to $32,015.93).

And as you can see below, James Grayem of Jamie Graham, Michel Stuck of Gables Search Group, and Frank Caliguiri of Basilone Executive Search rounded out the top five recruiters for the month.

Below is the information that we include with the Recruiters of the Month feature in Top Echelon Network:

  1. The top five (5) recruiters for the month.
  2. The cash-in total for each recruiter during the month. (We base the order of the recruiters on their amount of cash-in dollars, as opposed to the number of split placements they made.)
  3. The number of splits that the recruiters made during the month.
  4. The number of splits each recruiter has made during their Network career.
  5. Each recruiter’s cash-in total for their Network career.

With this format, it’s more likely there will be ties among recruiters, especially with those Network members who have made split placements with each other.

Congratulations to the recruiters listed below . . . and congratulations to every Network member who made a split placement (or multiple splits) during the month!

Recruiters of the Month – March 2024

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First Place:

Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Steve Kohn

Recruiter: Steve Kohn
Agency: Affinity Executive Search, Inc.
Placements: Three (3)
Cash-in total: $35,946.70
Career Top Echelon placements: 545
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $4,940,694.55

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Second Place:

Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Brad Dodge

Recruiter: Brad Dodge
Agency: iLocatum Recruiting
Placements: Four (4)
Cash-in total: $32,015.93
Career Top Echelon placements: 137
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $1,047,270.76

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Third Place:

James Grayem of James Grayem

James Grayem

Recruiter: James Grayem 
Agency: Jamie Graham
Placements: Three (3)
Cash-in total: $22,485.43
Career Top Echelon placements: 33
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $165,773.31

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Fourth Place:

Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Michael Stuck

Recruiter: Michael Stuck
Agency: Gables Search Group
Placements: Four (4)
Cash-in total: $19,264.51
Career Top Echelon placements: 564
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $4,021,999.71

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Fifth Place:

Frank Caligiuri of Basilone Executive Search

Frank Caligiuri

Recruiter: Frank Caligiuri
Agency: Basilone Executive Search
Placements: Two (2)
Cash-in total: $18,800.00
Career Top Echelon placements: 11
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $104,685.45

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If YOU want to make more money through Top Echelon’s recruiting network, then contact Director of Network Operations, Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

You can reach Drea by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

Top Echelon Connect 2024 will be here before you know it! We’ve already shared how attending this training and networking event can result in a healthy return on your investment in Top Echelon Network membership.

Now, though, I’d like to re-announce that there are three sponsors of Top Echelon Connect 2024. They are as follows:

  • Recruiters Websites
  • Foxhire
  • SourceWhale

Last week, I focused on Recruiters Websites within the pages of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

This week, I’m going to focus on Foxhire. Many of you who have been Top Echelon Network members for a considerable length of time may remember that Foxhire was formerly called Top Echelon Contracting. But I digress. Here is their story, culled directly from the company’s website:

You may have known us as “Top Echelon Contracting,” which was our name for almost two decades! Since simplifying our Employer of Record (EOR) platform, however, we decided to go with a simpler name, too: FoxHire.

A lot has happened in the HR and recruitment world since our inception in 1992, from the global remote working revolution to the Great Resignation. But one thing that has remained the same is our dedication to our clients and our core values of trust, reliability, and quality.

FoxHire’s innovative EOR platform makes hiring top talent anywhere easy. No more admin burdens, no more payroll, no more compliance worries (that’s our job). As a legal Employer of Record, we help you hire–without the hassle.

We’re now celebrating 30 years of supporting employers and recruiting firms in growing their business and simplifying the hiring process with 25,000+ workers hired through our platform (and counting)!

John Lindesmith of Foxhire

John Lindesmith

John Lindesmith, Vice President of Product at Foxhire, will be presenting one of the sessions at Top Echelon Connect 2024 in St. Petersburg. The title of that session is “Elevate Your Business by Generating Contract Staffing Revenue.” The session is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3. Below is the description for that presentation:

The recruiting industry is all about seizing the next great opportunity for a placement. With the demands of the staffing industry evolving and clients needing candidates quicker, recruiters need to offer their clients flexible and successful solutions, all while closing the deal.

Learn all about how contract placements can be incredibly profitable for you and your clients and deliver results, fast. In this session, John Lindesmith of Foxhire will discuss these successful strategies to use to combat a competitive market:

  • A deficit workforce and talent shortage resulting in more contract opportunities
  • Marketing tactics to grow your contract candidate pool
  • Client selling strategies: how to overcome objections and close the deal

Once again, listed below is the important logistical information regarding Top Echelon Connect 2024.

  • Dates: Thursday, May 2, and Friday, May 3
  • Location: Tradewinds Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Room Rate: $229 per night
  • Main speaker: Scott Love

To book a room at the Tradewinds, call the hotel’s group reservations number at (800) 808-9833 and mention that you are with Top Echelon in order to receive our special room rate.

As we’ve done for our past several recruiter networking events, we have a special website dedicated to Top Echelon Connect 2024.

The URL for that website is connect.topechelon.com. In the meantime . . .

Click HERE to register for Top Echelon Connect 2024!

If you have any questions about registration (or about any other aspects of the convention), please contact me at 330.595.1742 or via email at drea@topechelon.com.

It’s a new month, which means we have a new batch of Top Echelon Network members!

And we want you to be just as excited as we are about the recruiting agencies that joined the Network during the month of March. We want you to reach out of them and welcome them to Top Echelon and also discuss business if they work in the same industry and/or niche that you do.

As you well know, we run the names of recruiting agencies applying for membership in the Network Dashboard section of the Top Echelon software. We list the names of new Network members, as well.

However, we also list our new members in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog. This list typically includes the:

  • Name of the agency
  • Industries and/or specialties in which the agency operates
  • Names of the recruiters working at the agency
  • Geographic location of the agency

So I’d like to take this moment to once again congratulate the recruiting agencies listed below and publicly welcome them to Top Echelon Network. I look forward to helping them make split placements!

(Note: If you have any questions about reaching out to new members or about your split recruiting membership in general, please contact me. My contact information is listed at the end of this blog post.)

New Member Firms – March 2024

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A Christopher Company, LLC
Industries: Supply Chain, Accounting/Payroll, HR, Analytics, and EHS
Recruiters: Christopher Guzman
Location: Whittier, CA

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AEC Alliance
Industries: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Recruiters: Oliver Verdult
Location: Kernersville, NC

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Arango and Associates
Industries: IT, Healthcare, Professional Services, Telecoms, Financial Technology, and BioTech
Recruiters: Paula Arango
Location: Tampa, FL

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CL Staffing & Executive Search
Industries: Accounting/Finance, Manufacturing, Legal, Healthcare, and Technology
Recruiters: Chelsea Holzhauer
Location: Tulsa, OK

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EngPlat Recruiting
Industries: IT and Software Engineering
Recruiters: D’Angelo Cornelison
Location: Stockbridge, GA

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ExecHires
Industries: Technology
Recruiters: Gina Quinlan
Location: Palm Beach, FL

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Grit Global Recruiters
Industries: Accounting/Finance and Generalist
Recruiters: Carolina Beltran
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Key Resource Group
Industries: Information Technology
Recruiters: Kyle Cravens
Location: Santa Rosa Beach, FL

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KLA Industries
Industries: Manufacturing
Recruiters: Zach Ernest
Location: Largo, FL

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Market Research Advisory Group
Industries: Market Research, Consumer Insights, and Generalist
Recruiters: Scott Bandremer
Location: Haverstraw, NY

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Metropol-Tech Consulting, Inc.
Industries: IT, Sales, and Healthcare
Recruiters: Guy Kabwenge
Location: Laurel, MD

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ProTalent Finders, LLC
Industries: Program and Project Management and Analyst Support
Recruiters: Megan Alford
Location: Fredericksburg, VA

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Software Placement Group
Industries: SaaS, Fintech, and Biotech
Recruiters: Jeff Calannio
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA

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Wellspring Search
Industries: Biotech, Pharma, Genomic, and Tech
Recruiters: Calvin Lu
Location: San Diego, CA

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Wisen HR
Industries: Generalist
Recruiters: Liza Kiptoo
Location: Alpharetta, GA

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YK Solutions, LLC
Industries: Generalist
Recruiters: Yasmine Karawia
Location: Los Angeles, CA

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It doesn’t matter if you’re a newer Network recruiter or an established member. If you want help making split placements with other Top Echelon Network members, then I encourage you to contact me.

You can do so by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

In case you didn’t read the headline for this blog post, we have some BIG anniversaries in Top Echelon Network for the month of April!

In fact, we have five recruiting agencies that are celebrating Network anniversaries of 30 years or more, starting with KB Search Team, LLC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. KB Search Team is celebrating 34 years as a Top Echelon agency.

In addition, Executive Directions & Pinnacle International in North Canton, Ohio is celebrating 31 years in TE, making it the other agency that has been in the Network for at least 30 years. In all, there are 45 recruiting agencies celebrating a milestone in Top Echelon Network during the month of April.

When recognizing Network agencies for their anniversaries, Top Echelon includes the name of the agency; the length of the anniversary; and the location of the agency, including the city and state.

So congratulations to all of the agencies celebrating anniversaries in our split fee recruiting network during the month of April!

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34-Year Anniversary

  • KB Search Team, LLC in Fort Wayne, IN

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31-Year Anniversary

  • Executive Directions & Pinnacle International in North Canton, OH

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29-Year Anniversary

  • SearchStars, Inc. in Lincoln, VA

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25-Year Anniversary

  • ASAP Search in Irmo, SC

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24-Year Anniversary

  • Recruiters Network, Inc. in Camas, WA

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18-Year Anniversary

  • MedTeam Staffing, Inc. in Lake Mary, FL

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12-Year Anniversary

  • Mangrum Career Solutions, LLC in Bethel, OH

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9-Year Anniversary

  • Griffin Recruitment Group, LLC in East Bernstadt, KY
  • Phil Ellis Associates in Wrightsville Beach, NC
  • Surf Search in Del Mar, CA

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8-Year Anniversary

  • Bellish & Associates, LLC in Pickerington, OH
  • Corps Partners in Huntersville, NC
  • Hope and Associates in Alpharetta, GA
  • Horizon Search, Inc. in Prescott, AZ

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7-Year Anniversary

  • First Search, Inc. in Elgin, IL

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6-Year Anniversary

  • iLocatum Recruiting in San Diego, CA
  • RPM ReSearch in Fort Mill, SC
  • TSS Sourcing Solutions in Seymour, IN

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5-Year Anniversary

  • BSI Management Search & Consulting in Nicholson, GA
  • Concourse Group in Ann Arbor, MI
  • Janus Search Group, LLC in Cleveland, OH

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4-Year Anniversary

  • Integra Personnel, Inc. in Shoreline, WA
  • KBex Global in Boca Raton, FL
  • ProConcepts International in Colorado Springs, CO
  • Provident Research, Inc. in Rockville, MA
  • RCD Group in Sarasota, FL
  • Systems Recruiters, LLC in Alpharetta, GA
  • Talent Guide USA in Willis, TX
  • The Pursell Group, LLC in Tulsa, OK
  • White Willow Staffing, LLC in Milton, WI

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3-Year Anniversary

  • Cameron Executive Search in Madison, AL
  • Cranbrook Search Consultants in Bloomfield, MI
  • KBSC Solutions in Phoenix, AZ
  • Leading Tech Staffing, LLC in Union, KY
  • UCare Staffing, LLC in Bronx, NY

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2-Year Anniversary

  • Rowbottom Partners in Milwaukee, WI
  • Team Builders Recruiting and Consulting in The Woodlands, TX
  • Technical Interviewers in Washington, DC
  • TWG Recruiters in Garner, NC

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1-Year Anniversary

  • Management Business Solutions, Inc. in Wyoming, MI 
  • Network Recruiting in Rosemead, CA
  • Omega Point Partners in Prairieville, LA
  • Recruiter Thon, LLC in Dix Hills, NY
  • Talbott Talent in Carmel, IN
  • United Future in Ammon, ID 

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Thank you to all of these agencies and the many others that have joined Top Echelon Network over the years. We look forward to many more anniversaries and split placements in the years ahead!