THE AWARDS:

At Top Echelon Network, we recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—Recruiter of the Month, Recruiter of the Quarter, Largest Split Fee of the Month, and Largest Split Fee of the Quarter.

For more information about the recruiter awards listed below, login to the Members’ Area and view the profiles and placement details of the Network recruiters who won them.

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LARGEST SPLIT FEE OF THE QUARTER: 

Joan R. Walters, CPC

Ann Boland

Joan R. Walters, CPC of JR Walters Resources and Ann Boland of The Boland Group

The position for this split placement was a Director of Sales and Marketing.  Walters was the job order recruiter, and Boland was the candidate recruiter.

The total fee for this Top Echelon Network split placement was $53,750.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as, “Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network recruiter.”

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OUR CRITERIA FOR THESE RECRUITER AWARDS:

Top Echelon Network determines the monthly and quarterly recruiter award winners based upon two things, 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

This explains why, when multiple recruiters are tied with the same number of split placements during a given month or quarter, the recruiter with the largest “cash-in” total for their placements is deemed the winner.

SPLIT JOBS FILLED THIS WEEK:

Below are the split jobs that were recently filled by Top Echelon Network recruiters:

• Customer Service Representative
• Tax Manager
• Controller
• Sr. Construction Engineer
• Steel Buyer

For more information about how YOU can be more successful in Top Echelon Network and make more split placements, call Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CERS at 330.455.1433, x156.

THIS WEEK’S NETWORK SPLIT PLACEMENTS:

Michael Stuck

Brenda Richardson

Job recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Candidate recruiter: Brenda Richardson of Stewart Cooper & Coon

Split job title: CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Fee percentage: Flat

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

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Brenda Richardson

Steve Brody

Job recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Candidate recruiter: Brenda Richardson of Stewart Cooper & Coon

Split job title: TAX MANAGER

Fee percentage: 25%

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

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Joe Pelayo

Matt Scheihing

Job recruiter: Matt Scheihing of J. Miles Personnel Services

Candidate recruiter: Joe Pelayo of Joseph Michaels International

Split job title: CONTROLLER

Fee percentage: 25%

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

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Robert Wilson

Don Pergal

Job recruiter: Robert Wilson of R.L. Wilson & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Don Pergal of Pergal and Company, LLC

Split job title: SR. CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER

Fee percentage: 20%

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

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Ron Sunshine

Justin Bidwell

Job recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

Split job title: STEEL BUYER

Fee percentage: 20%

Action causing split placement: A Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter’s Hiring Hook recruitment website

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(Matt Deutsch is the Chief Marketing and Content Officer at Top Echelon.)

Top Echelon Network’s 2014 Fall Conference will be here before you know it (namely because the event is in September this year), and that’s why we’re pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for the conference is . . . Mike Gionta of RecruiterU!

I and other members of the Top Echelon team have had the opportunity to hear Mike present sessions at seminars and other events, and we believe that he is a good fit for this year’s Fall Conference.  One of the reasons is that his training is geared toward independent recruiting firms, and those are exactly the types of agencies to which we cater.

Below is the official bio for Mike Gionta:

Mike helps recruiting firm owners and solo recruiters explode revenue, hire great recruiters, and become a “trusted adviser” (vs. annoying vendor) to their clients by getting them out of their own way and systematizing their businesses.  Mike’s clients are able to “leap-frog” other recruiters by learning from his techniques that have resulted in annual desk-level production of $1 million to $2.1 million, as well as a firm that consistently produced $2 million to $3 million and was the 11th-fastest growing IT search firm in the country.

The dates for the 2014 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference are Tuesday, September 23, and Wednesday, September 24, and the location is the Sheraton Suites O’Hare in the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois.

Early Bird Registration for the Fall Conference is just $199 per person!  We’ve kept the cost of attending our conferences and conventions practically the same ever since we started holding these events.  We want to make it easy for you to attend so that you can meet new Trading Partners and grow your business.

We want to see YOU in Chicago.  We believe that this year’s conference offers plenty of value for your firm and will help you enjoy a great year in 2014!

THE SPLIT PLACEMENTS:

We have “website placements galore” in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

Let’s start with the first pair of recruiters listed below.  They’ve made three split placements together during the past six months as a direct result of a Hiring Hook recruiter website.

The second set of recruiters below?  They’ve made eight split placements together during their time in Top Echelon Network, and all eight have been the direct result of a Hiring Hook recruiter website.

Some Top Echelon Network recruiters rely almost entirely upon their website to help them make split placements, while other recruiters use a combination of their website plus traditional networking efforts.

Could your firm’s website help YOU make more splits?  Call us today to find out more.

Congratulations to everybody who made split placements this week!

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Jeff Peters

Steve Copeland

“This makes our third placement in six months!  We have another placement already scheduled for November.  Very productive website.”

Submitted by Jeff Peters of Peters Search Group, LLC regarding his Network split placement with Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC

Position Title—PROCESS TECH/OPERATOR

Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth Network split placement that Peters and Copeland have made together in Top Echelon.)

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Jim Strickland

Maria Hemminger

“Jim’s website keeps working for us.  Thank you, Jim, for an excellent Engineering candidate.  Happy to make yet ANOTHER split with you!”

Submitted by Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC regarding her Network split placement with Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Position Title—MANUFACTURING ENGINEER – ASSEMBLY

Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth Network split placement that Hemminger and Strickland have made together in Top Echelon.)

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Trey Cameron

Chris Ramsay, CPC

“Thank you, Trey, for a good candidate that I saved and was able to place!

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

Position Title—QUALITY ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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(Matt Deutsch is the Chief Marketing and Content Officer at Top Echelon.)

Top Echelon welcomed thirteen (13) new Network recruiting firms during the month of June!  However, we broke the list up and published the first half of those firms in last week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

But no worries!  We’re publishing the second half of the list in this week’s issue!

The names of these six new Network recruiting firms are listed below, along with their location; the disciplines, industries, and specialty areas in which the agencies work; and the date the agencies officially joined the Network.

We encourage you to reach out to the recruiters in these firms and welcome them to the Network, especially if they operate within your specialty area!  (Click on the name of the agency to view its profile in the Members’ Area.  However, please note that you must be logged into the Network software in order to do so.)

Pinnacle Consulting USA, LLC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
—Specialties: SAP and Oracle
—Join date: June 16

Attorney Search Partners in Belmont, California
—Specialties: Attorney search focus and other legal-related placements
—Join date: June 17

Winford Solutions, LLC in Sylva, North Carolina
—Specialties: Healthcare (Life Sciences, Hospitals, Pharma, Clinical Trials, HMO); manager/director level up to C-level (clinical and non-clinical)
—Join date: June 19

Hire America’s Finest in Kalispell, Montana
—Specialties: Oil & Gas sector
—Join date: June 27

Career Management Associates in Overland Park, Kansas
—Specialties: General, HR, Legal, C-Level, and Telecom
—Join date: June 30

Design Build Recruitment in Empire State, New York
—Specialties: Engineering, Environmental, Architectural, Construction, Information Technology, Accounting, Finance, Administrative, and Human Resources industries
—Join date: June 30

Remember, if you know somebody who you think would be a good fit for Network Membership, you can receive a $100 credit toward your Top Echelon invoice for referring an agency that eventually becomes a Preferred Member.

You can send your referrals to info@topechelon.com.