First things first: the person in the photo above is NOT Top Echelon Network member recruiter Gerald Brown of Technical Management Advisors.

Second things second: Gerald Brown is the equivalent of a “Network ninja.”

That’s because you don’t see him, you don’t see, you don’t see him, and then . . . he makes a placement!

Gerald is a long-time member of Top Echelon Network, and he’s made a few “ninja appearances” this year to delight split partners with split placement opportunities. A couple of those split partners expressed their appreciation below.

Gerald is celebrating his 30th year in the recruiting profession in 2016. In addition, he joined Top Echelon Network in April of 1993, so he celebrated his 23rd Network anniversary earlier this year.

Gerald is a “dyed in the wool” recruiter. He was making placements before Internet and social media recruiting was all the rage. He’s the type of recruiter upon which Top Echelon was founded.

For all of these reasons, Gerald Brown is the Recruiter of the Week in Top Echelon Network!

While we don’t hear from Gerald very often, it’s good to see him pop up every once in a while with a split placement that delighted one of his split partners. We would expect nothing less from a “Network ninja.”

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Gerald Brown

“Thanks, Jerry, for introducing this candidate, not even knowing if I had an open search.”

Submitted by Richard Connors of Vista Technology regarding his Network split placement with Gerald Brown of Technical Management Advisors

Position Title—CMC ANALYTICAL SCIENTIST

Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: This is the first Network split placement that Connors and Brown have made together in Top Echelon.)

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“I am so excited to have my first split with Jerry. He really understood what my client was looking for and sent over a number of qualified candidates. He helped through the offer process, and this placement wouldn’t have happened without his recruiting expertise! Thanks, Jerry! Let’s do some more splits!”

Submitted by Kerry Boehner of KOB Solutions, Inc. regarding her Network split placement with Gerald Brown of Technical Management Advisors

Position Title—GROUP LEADER, BIOANALYTICAL

Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: This is the first Network split placement that Boehner and Brown have made together in Top Echelon.)

It’s that time again. It’s time to check in with Top Echelon Network top producer Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group.

Trey keeps “churning and burning” through the Network with placements galore. This time, he’s won the Recruiter of the Month Award for the month of August. He did it quite comfortably, too, winning by the overwhelming margin of 14 placements.

As has been the custom recently, we’re combining Trey’s many achievements with comments that split partners have sent to the Top Echelon offices regarding his efforts into a single blog post. That way, we can save trees in the process. (No, wait. Scratch that one.)

While we’re here, though, let’s see where Trey is at on an all-time basis:

• 499 placements
• $3.7 million cash-in

As you can see, congratulations will soon be in order for Trey’s 500th career split placement as a member of Top Echelon Network. In the meantime, congratulations are in order for winning yet another Recruiter of the Month Award!

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Recruiters of the Month:

1st Place: Trey Cameron
Agency: Cameron Craig Group
Placements: 18
Commission: $144,808

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2nd Place: Steve Kohn
Agency: Affinity Executive Search
Placements: 4
Commission: $38,974

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3rd Place: Pam Copeland
Agency: fulltimeGiGS
Placements: 3
Commission: $31,725

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4th Place: Kristy Staggs
Agency: Byrnes & Rupkey
Placements: 3
Commission: $12,607

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5th Place: Judi Terrando
Agency: Key Corporate Services, LLC
Placements: 2
Commission: $22,677

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Trey Cameron

“As always, Trey, love receiving your candidates and making yet another split placement with you!”

Submitted by Kristy Staggs of Byrnes & Rupkey, Inc. regarding her Network split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—SCHEDULING SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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“Trey provided another excellent candidate, and I definitely appreciate his help!”

Submitted by Scott Szur of The Harrison Group, LLC regarding her Network split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—ANALYTICAL CHEMIST

Fee Percentage—15%

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

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“This was a nine-month scenario. We appreciate Trey being tenacious with our searches.”

Submitted by Lois Rupkey of Byrnes & Rupkey, Inc. regarding her Network split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—HRM

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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If YOU are looking to make more placements with your Top Echelon Network membership, contact Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

Last week in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we addressed the topic of how many clients Top Echelon Network recruiters work with each year. As per usual, we used a survey in the Members’ Area to come up with the results.

And we’re back this week with the results of another one! Instead of clients, though, we focused on job orders. Specifically, we posed the following question:

How many job orders are you working right now?

Results:

The choice of answers that we provided is listed below, along with the percentage of recruiters that selected each one:

• 0-3 — 15.6%
• 4-6 — 21.1%
• 7-10— 26.6%
• 11-13— 13.8%
• 14-16— 3.7%
• More than 16 — 19.3%

Job orders across the board:

As you can see, the results are all over the board. The distribution is pretty evenly distributed. However, the answer “7-10” was the most popular answer with 26.6% of the vote.

Right behind it was “4-6” at 21.1% and then “more than 16” at 19.3%. When nearly one-fifth of Network recruiters are working more than 16 job orders at one time, that bodes well for the activity in their niche.

At the other end of the spectrum is “0-3” with 15.6% of the responses. Right in the middle is “11-13” at 13.8%. Last but not least is “14-16,” which must represent an obscure number of job orders at 3.7%.

Overall, the results are typical for the type of job market conditions that we’re currently experiencing.

The variables involved:

There are a number of variables in results such as these. They include the following:

• The industry in which the recruiter works
• The business model of the firm in which the recruiter works
• The number of firms with which the recruiter is working
• The type of searches on which the recruiter is working (contingent, retainer, container, etc.)
• The capacity of the recruiter (how many job orders they can effectively work at one time)

Unfortunately, we don’t know any of these variables in relation to the votes that were cast for this particular survey. However, there is one fact that is not variable at the moment:

There ARE job orders.

Companies are hiring, and they’re enlisting the services of recruiting agencies to help them find the candidates they need. Without that fact, all of the variables in the world won’t amount of a hill of beans.

No matter how much you like beans.