The next meeting of the Northeast Ohio Regional Core Group is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, at Shula’s Steak House II in Independence, Ohio.  It’s recommended that attendees arrive at 6 p.m. if they’d like to engage in some pre-meeting networking.

If you plan to attend, please bring your hot job orders and/or candidates to share, along with any other topic you wish to discuss.  This is an open discussion meeting.

The members of the Northeast Ohio Regional Core Group meet on a regular basis (and sometimes irregular basis) to share information and discuss Network-related issues and general recruiting topics.  If you wish to attend this meeting, please contact David M. Sgro, CPC of True North Consultants, Inc. as soon as possible.

Below is the address and phone number for Shula’s Steak House II:

6200 Quarry Lane
Independence, Ohio 44131
216.901.7852

If you’d like to promote your Regional Core Group meetings in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com.  If you’d like to start a new Regional Core Group or join an existing one, be sure to contact ME!

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Every recruiter who takes a job order from a company wants that company’s hiring manager to be thrilled when they eventually fill the order with the recruiter’s candidate.  Not just satisfied, but thrilled.  That’s because thrilling a hiring manager with a great candidate means future business in the form of more job orders.

These days, though, highly qualified candidates can be difficult to come by.  As a result, positions can stay open . . . and open . . . and open.  That’s not a very thrilling situation—for anybody.

BUT when you’re a Preferred Member recruiter, you have access to not only your own candidates, but also to other Members’ candidates in Top Echelon recruiter network.  That can make all the difference in the world, namely the difference between an open position and an unimpressed hiring manager and a filled position and a thrilled hiring manager.

A filled position, a placement fee, a thrilled hiring manager, and the increased possibility of repeat business: that’s a pretty healthy return on the investment of Preferred Membership in Top Echelon Network.  That’s also the theme running through this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments,” as you can see below.

If you’d like to thank one of our top recruiters 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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“The candidate was an ideal fit.  Stephanie provided a solid initial overview of the candidate, which helped in qualifying his core competencies and skill sets.  The hiring manager is thrilled.  The position has been open for two months without prior success.”

Submitted by Steve Kane, CPC of Bio-Partners Search Group, LLC regarding his split placement with Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Position Title—ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MARKET ACCESS/MARKET RESEARCH
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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“Jim has diligently sourced local Kentucky candidates for this client, and we’re hoping for more split placements as a result of his efforts.”

Submitted by Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates regarding her split placement with James Compton of Compton & Associates.

Position Title—PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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There are many, many ways that Preferred Member recruiters can make split placements in Top Echelon Network—and this Pinnacle Newsletter Blog post illustrates that!

In fact, it’s a veritable “grab bag” of split placement action . . . perhaps for want of a better phrase.  But nonetheless, all the split placements listed below happened for different reasons.  In other words, they all had different catalysts.

This blog post is also further evidence that if you do the things that lead most directly to making split placements, you increase the chances that you’re going to make split placements.  It sounds simple, but it really IS that simple:

• Communicate regularly with Trading Partners.
• Search the Top Echelon Network Split Databases.
• Use the Job Order Alerts and Candidate Alerts.
• Make your firm’s website a Hiring Hook Website.

And these are just some of the things that you can do to increase your chances of making split placements and adding revenue to your firm’s bottom line.  Yes, that’s right, you guessed it—there’s more.  But that’s a blog post for another day . . .

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Cindy Andrew Cordell of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: IT BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Jane H. Ko, CPC of Staffing Partners, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Ed Nathan of Systems Search

Job title: NETWORK 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: Jay Laney of The Williams Company

Candidate recruiter: John Zurek of Zurek Professional Resources, LLC

Job title: QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: John sent [the candidate] to me one day after seeing my posting.

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Job order recruiter: Ed Keil, CPC of Reliance Recruiting, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bill Broderick of MPI Resources

Job title: HUMAN RESOURCES 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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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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For years, The Cornerstone, the newsletter of Top Echelon contract staffing recruiters, was sent to the Preferred Members of Top Echelon Network.  The Cornerstone was eventually discontinued in favor of another newsletter, Contracting Corner, which is now published once a quarter.

However, we still run contracting statistics in select issues of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  These statistics include Non-Split Contract Placements, Split Contract Placements, and Non-Recruited Placements, among others.

Below are the most recent statistics regarding contract placements made by Preferred Member recruiters, courtesy of Top Echelon Contracting.

These are Preferred Member recruiters just like you . . . proving that YOU can make contract placements, too!  All you have to do is let your clients know that you can provide contract candidates and then call Top Echelon Contracting.  They’ll take care of the rest.

Many of the Top Producers in Top Echelon Network have added contract staffing to their business model and have also taken advantage of the services provided by Top Echelon Contracting, the recruiter’s employer of record services.

For more information about the benefits of contract staffing and the services that Top Echelon Contracting provides, call (888) 627-3678, Ext. 2.

I have great news: the dates AND the location for the 2012 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference have been set!

Those dates are Thursday, October 11, and Friday, October 12.

The location, of course, is Chicago.  More specifically, though, the location is the Sheraton Gateway Suites.  We’ve held the Fall Conference at the Suites countless times in the past, but last year we deviated from that routine and the site of the conference was the Embassy Suites.

However, we’re excited to be back at the Sheraton, and we’re excited to invite you to join us in Chicago for another great event.  There was a healthy turnout recently at the National Convention in Nashville, and we anticipate that attendance at the Fall Conference could be even higher.

Below are some things you should look for in the weeks and months ahead:

• The cost of the convention—We’ll be releasing “Early Bird Registration” soon.

• The room rate for the hotel—We’re in the process of negotiating that, and we’ll announce that, as well.

• The speaker for the convention and the preliminary agenda—We’ll release this information at the same time we release “Early Bird Registration.”

In the meantime, circle the dates for the Fall Conference on your calendar: Thursday, October 11, and Friday, October 12.  Make plans to join us in Chicago.

And remember . . . I’ll know if you’re not there.

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