Every once in a while, I unfortunately have to write an article such as this one.  It pains me to do so, but it also reminds me of the brevity of life and how it should not be taken for granted.

It is with deep regret that I must inform the Top Echelon Network Preferred Membership of the passing of Network recruiter John Cokinos of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.

John started recruiting in 1976, so he was definitely a veteran of the recruiting industry.  (J.D. Cotter Search joined Top Echelon Network in 2001.)

We received news of John’s passing earlier this week.  He was a good man and friend to many, and he will be truly missed by those who knew him best.

Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.  We will keep everybody involved in the situation in our thoughts and prayers.

We’ve highlighted Preferred Member recruiting firm MJ Recruiters, LLC before in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

But you know what?  We’re going to highlight them again.  You know why?  Because they keep making placements, that’s why!

And this week, MJ Recruiters has three split placements in The Pinnacle.  Not only that, but two of them are direct-hire placements, and other one is a contract placement, showing the firm’s versatility and the different ways in which it strives to meet the needs of its clients.

So if you want to stop seeing MJ Recruiters in the newsletter, tell those at the firm to stop making placements.  But I doubt they’ll listen.

In the meantime, it’s time for “MJ Recruiters-palooza”!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David M. Sgro, CPC of True North Consultants, Inc.

Job title: IT SYSTEMS SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Fee Percentage—25%

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: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PROCESS ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

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

Job title: DRAFTER

Recruiter Per/Hr—$2.14

Action causing split placement: Top Echelon Contracting will handle this contract placement.

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Job order recruiter: Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Lee Fierman of Gables Search Group, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

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: Doris Painter, CPC of Painter & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions

Job title: OUTSIDE SALES REP

Fee Percentage—Flat

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

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Job order recruiter: Randall Hardwick of Avalon Recruiting

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Rob Spaulding of Spaulding Associates

Candidate recruiter: Hani Mussa of KnowPeople, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR ELECTRICAL TEST TECHNICIAN

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Ron Magnusson of Norseman Recruiting Services

Candidate recruiter: Bob Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.

Job title: INSPECTION ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon Network’s split databases.

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Why do Preferred Member recruiters like to work with one another in Top Echelon Network and make split placements?

The reasons are numerous, but one of them is highlighted in this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments.”  That reason is simply this: because of the high-quality candidates that they present.

However, as you can see by the comments below, good candidates are just one half of the equation. The other half is the proper qualifying of those candidates, making sure that they’re still interested in a new opportunity and that they’re highly “place-able.”

And of course, this is also an example of two of the Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network—Quality and Active Participation.  If you actively participate in the Network and you do so in a quality manner (like sharing top-notch candidates in the Split Database), then you give yourself a much better chance of making split placements.

And of other recruiters wanting to work with you in the future.

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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“Mike continues to have an amazing number of good candidates in the shared database.  More than half of the candidates in any given search I run seem to be his, and he’s always happy to update the candidate for me.  It seems to be paying off!”

Submitted by Carolyn Barcus of Barcus Associates regarding her split placement with Mike Cirner, CPC of Fowler Placement Services, Inc.

Position Title—SALES DEVELOPMENT INSURANCE VERTICAL
Fee Percentage—Flat Fee

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Barcus and Cirner have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Rhonda, thanks so much for a great lightweight engineer!”

Submitted by Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Rhonda Dove of KB Search Team, LLC

Position Title—PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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During the second week of October, I’ll be in Chicago for the 2012 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference.  Because I haven’t yet figured out to how to be in two places at once, I won’t be in Canton on the second Thursday of the month.

That’s significant because Thursday is typically the day that I hold Virtual Core Group (VCG) teleconference calls for Preferred Member recruiters of Top Echelon Network.  As you might have already guessed, the Fall Conference is going to push back the upcoming VCG schedule.

The groups that normally have their calls on the second Thursday of the month (in this case, October 11) will now have them on the third Thursday of the month (October 18).  Those groups are Aerospace/DOD, Software Sales, and Information Technology.

Virtual Core Group meetings are regularly scheduled conference calls for Preferred Member recruiters who work in the same industry or niche.

During these calls, recruiters share information about the activity they’re seeing in the market, they share hot job orders and candidates, and they also bounce ideas off one another.  These are the activities that lead most directly to making split placements.

Below is the Virtual Core Group teleconference call schedule for the month of October (all times listed are Eastern Standard Time).

If you think you’d like to start a new Virtual Core Group—or join an existing one—please contact me!

And I sincerely hope that I’ll see you at the Fall Conference next month . . . if I don’t, you can expect to hear about it from me.  No kidding.

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