At Top Echelon, we want to make Membership in our split network as valuable as possible.

To that end, we’re pleased to announce a special deal that we’ve struck with LinkedIn for their “LinkedIn Recruiter” tool.

As part of this agreement, Preferred Members of Top Echelon Network can purchase “LinkedIn Recruiter” at 50% off!  That means the price for a whole year of LinkedIn Recruiter would be $2,500, as opposed to the regular price of $5,000.

However, it should be noted that at least 50 recruiters must sign up for this deal in order for this special pricing to be available. If between 25 and 50 participate, then the price will be $3,500 for one year.

Below are some other important details associated with this deal:

• Recruiters who participate will have to pay for LinkedIn Recruiter up front.
• Top Echelon Network will serve as the one point of contact for LinkedIn for this special offer, meaning that you’ll have to make your check for the appropriate amount out to “Top Echelon Network.” Then we’ll pay LinkedIn.  (You’ll still contact LinkedIn for other issues, including technical support.)

For those who don’t know, LinkedIn recruiter is a special package from the social media site created specifically for recruiters.  With LinkedIn Recruiter, you get the following:

• Full-name visibility
• Premium talent filters
• 50 InMails
• 1,000 profiles per search
• 50 alerts daily
• 200 folders, team sharing
• Collaboration tools

Click here for more information about LinkedIn Recruiter, including a short video and assorted White Papers regarding the software.

To maximize the benefits of this special offer, we need a commitment from those recruiters who are interested.  Specifically, we’ll need the $2,500 in the form of a check by Wednesday, July 25.  That will ensure that we’ll meet the August 1 deadline.

If you’re interested in taking advantage of this deal, please send us an email at info@topechelon.com.  In that email, be sure to include your name, your firm’s name, and your willingness to participate in this special deal.

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With the exception of the Cameron Craig Group, no Preferred Member recruiting firm in Top Echelon Network is churning out split placements as quickly as MJ Recruiters, LLC.

Maria Hemminger and Joanna Spaun are the twin engines that keep MJ Recruiters firing on all cylinders, and their hard work is once again represented in this week’s split placements in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

Since January of 2012, MJ Recruiters has accounted for 11 split placements.  Projected over the course of the year, that total will be well over 20 splits.

So this week, we’d like to congratulate MJ Recruiters for their hard work and success as Preferred Member recruiters . . . by presenting “The Maria and Jo Split Placement Show.”  It’s a show that should continue running for quite a while . . .

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Bill Quackenbush, CPC/CTS of QCI Technical Staffing

Job title: PROJECT ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—30%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: MAINTENANCE TEAM LEADER

Fee Percentage—Flat

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

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Job order recruiter: Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Joe Pelayo of Joseph Michaels International

Job title: PLANT MANAGER

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: Karen Akbal-Sturgeon of KLA Industries

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: QUALITY CONTROL CHEMIST

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: <Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: MCKESSON CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—Flat

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

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Job order recruiter: Mike Lupidi of M.J. Lupidi & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter:Ken Nunley of 7 Solutions USA

Job title: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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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It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a recruiter.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a Preferred Member of Top Echelon Network.

You can still make split placements with recruiters you haven’t made split placements with before.  Take, for instance, the recruiters featured in this week’s installments of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

These recruiters have been highly successful, both inside and outside of the Network.  However, they haven’t made a split placement with one another.  Up until now.

The fact of the matter is that you just never know where your next split placement in Top Echelon Network is going to come from.  It could be the result of a new Trading Partner relationship . . . and where there’s one split placement, there could be many!

If you’d like to thank another recruiter 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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“Angela rocks!  Thanks for the great candidate!”

Submitted by David M. Sgro, CPC of True North Consultants, Inc. regarding his split placement with Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Position Title—SMS APPLICATION PACKAGING ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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“Trey, thank you for your great website!”

Submitted by Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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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.)

As if the stock market crash a few years ago wasn’t enough to ruin many older workers’ retirement, USA Today is now reporting that many have not saved enough to cover the massive cost of healthcare they will have in their retirement years.

According to the USA Today article, which cites information from a Fidelity Investments study, retirees’ healthcare costs have increased an average of 6% every year since 2002. Healthcare expenses account for about 35% of a retired couple’s annual Social Security benefit.

Those who assume that Medicare will cover most of their healthcare costs are most likely in for an unpleasant surprise. Even with Medicare, the average 65-year-old couple needs around $240,000 to cover their medical expenses over the course of their retirement.

So what can retirees do? Well, according to the article, many are planning to continue working. In fact, 1/4 of middle-class Americans believe they will have to work until they are 80 to have a comfortable retirement!

Rather than continue to work a traditional job to keep benefits, though, they could consider a contract position. If they are employed through a contract staffing back-office, they could be eligible for healthcare benefits. And while they will still have to work a certain number of hours to maintain eligibility for those benefits, there may be more flexibility as to when and where those hours are worked than there would be in a traditional, direct position.

Many older workers are turning to contract assignments to gain more flexibility in a trend known as retiree re-staffing. With the rising cost of healthcare and the availability of insurance benefits through contract assignments, contract staffing may become an even more attractive option to retirees.

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