It’s not even August yet, but this might go down as the hottest summer ever . . . in the history of ever.  (And if it doesn’t, I’m sure it will be near the top of the charts.)

Over half of the country might be experiencing a drought right now, but Top Echelon Network Preferred Members aren’t experiencing a drought as far as split placements are concerned.  In fact, our forecast calls for clear skies, intense heat, and a 100% chance of split placements!

Our forecast is much more fun than the one your meteorologist delivers on a daily basis.

However, rather than predict exactly who is going to make splits in the next week or even month, we have the weekly list of who’s already made split placements, and that list is detailed below.  So, rather than a weather forecast, this is more like . . . a crop report.

Okay, enough with the weather and farming metaphors.  These people made splits and collected fees they probably would not have collected otherwise.  Kudos all around . . .

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Jackie Jordan of Recruitlynx

Candidate recruiter: Chelsea Knutsen of Dayspring & Associates

Job title: FINISHED PRODUCT PLANNING ADMINISTRATOR

Fee Percentage—18%

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

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Job order recruiter: Denise Milano Sprung, CPC of JA Pharma, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Job title: DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS (EARLY ONCOLOGY)

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Kenneth Lowry of Lowry Personnel Services

Candidate recruiter: Debi Apple of Apple & Associates, Inc.

Job title: ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Candidate recruiter: Gene McQueen of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SENIOR RF ENGINEER

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: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Ray Fehrenbach of Southern Recruiters

Job title: MATERIALS MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Thomas Edwards of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—22.5%

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

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Job order recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions

Job title: RPG ILE/FREE CONTRACTOR

$ Per Hour—$4.37

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

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Job order recruiter: Steve Kane of Bio-Partners Search Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Job title: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKET RESEARCH

Fee Percentage—Flat

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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During the first quarter of this year, Preferred Member recruiters were making almost as many placements in IT/Information Systems/Data Processing as they were in Industry and Manufacturing.

However, that trend was short-lived.

That’s because according to our second quarter statistics, Industry and Manufacturing has once again assumed its position as “king of the hill,” so to speak, within Top Echelon Network.

As you can see by the chart below, Industry and Manufacturing is currently accounting for nearly a third of all placements in the Network (32.5%).  IT/Information Systems/Data Processing is second at 22.2%, and Engineering is third at 14.4%.

The discipline that accounts for the most job orders in Top Echelon Network?  That would be Healthcare, and that’s been the case for quite a while now, although the percentage of job orders (15.8%) is not as high as it’s been in the past.  At one point, over a third of all job orders in the Network were Healthcare-related.

What’s been your experience?  Do you work in any of these disciplines?  Are you seeing more job orders, candidates, and placements?  Or fewer?

More importantly, what can the Network do for you to help you be more successful?

If you have any questions about these statistics or about how you can make more split placements as a Preferred Member of Top Echelon Network, be sure to contact us.

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When you make nine placements in Top Echelon Network in the same quarter, there’s an excellent chance you’re going to be named “Recruiter of the Quarter.”

Well, that happened during the second quarter.  The Preferred Member recruiter who accomplished the feat?  None other than Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group, the Network’s “Top-Producing Recruiter” in 2011.

Cameron, who’s currently atop the 2012 leader board, is well on his way to garnering the “Top-Producing” honors once again this year.

However, Cameron wasn’t part of the “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter,” so he’s NOT involved in every award we announce . . . although sometimes it seems as though that’s the case.

Below are the winners of the recognition awards for the second 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

You’d think that Trey wouldn’t be able to top what he did during the first quarter (seven placements), but he did just that with a whopping nine placements during the second quarter.

Other recruiters enjoyed highly productive quarters, as well, including Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC (six placements) and Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc. and Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc. (four placements apiece).

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter
Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC and Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC

This placement was for a Global Alliance Program Director.  Copeland was the job order recruiter, and Gilbert was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this split placement was listed as, “Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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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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(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.)

One of the hottest areas for contract staffing now is healthcare.

To help recruiters capitalize on the opportunties in this industry, Top Echelon Contracting (TEC) has worked with our insurance underwriters to expand the types of healthcare positions that recruiters can place through our contract staffing back-office.

The expanded list of acceptable positions includes a greater number of Registered Nurse (RN) specialties, particularly in Pediatrics.

We can place RNs in the following areas:

We are also continuing to place a large number of healthcare professionals in the following growing positions:

TEC carries an extensive Certificate of Insurance that includes medical professional liability insurance.  We also run additional screenings, including drug screenings, background checks, license verification, immunization verification, etc., on all of our healthcare contractors due to the sensitive nature of these placements.

We place healthcare professionals in physicians’ offices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and charitable and welfare organizations. We can also place professional healthcare contractors in nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, and home health environments.

For more information about healthcare placements, please visit our Healthcare Contract Staffing page. To find out if we can handle your healthcare placement or to get a quote, please call us at (888) 627-3678.

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Just a little over 45 years ago, the musical group The Doors released its debut album (named, as might have guessed, The Doors).  On that album—sadly, there were no iPods back then—was a song by the title of “Break on Through (to the Other Side).”

What the heck does this have to do with anything, much less our “‘Comments’ and Compliments” feature?

Well, plenty, since the recruiters we’re featuring this week are making their first split placements with each other.  In fact, one of the recruiters involved made her first placement as a Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network.  Congratulations, Jeri Bartunek!

Why link split placements to a Doors song?  Because we want you humming the song all day, that’s why.  No, actually, because recruiters are making split placements with new Trading Partners all the time, on an almost weekly basis.

They’re “breaking on through to the other side” and as a result, cashing placement checks they probably wouldn’t be cashing otherwise . . . and of course, they’re complimenting one another for it.

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!

“Break on through to the other side . . . break on through to the other side . . .”

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“It was great working with Ram!  I want more!”

Submitted by Jeri Bartunek of Bartunek Group, Inc. regarding her split placement with Ram Kola of Stewart Cooper & Coon

Position Title—APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER
Fee Percentage—20%

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

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“Ken, thank you for hanging in there on this one.  Good job!  I really appreciate your help.”

Submitted by Mike Lupidi of “Top Gun” regarding his split placement with Ken Nunley of 7 Solutions USA

Position Title—HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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