Mark your calendars and get ready!

The highly anticipated TE Connect Spring 2025 event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19, to Friday, March 21, in Nashville, Tennessee! This will be our first major training and networking event of the year, and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable one.

The event will take place at the Bankers Alley Hilton, where we’ve secured a special room rate of $259 per night. This two-day event promises to be a perfect kickstart to the spring season for agency recruiters, search consultants, and industry professionals looking to grow and connect.

Danny Cahill

We are thrilled to announce that Danny Cahill—yes, the one and only—will be the keynote speaker!

After having to step back from TE Connect Spring 2024, Danny is returning with more energy and insight than ever. His thought-provoking presentations are always a highlight, so you won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry.

Key details regarding TE Connect Spring 2025 are listed below.

• Dates: Wednesday, March 21, to Friday, March 23, 2025
• Location: The Bankers Alley Hilton, Nashville, TN
• Room Rate: $259 per night
• Keynote Speaker: Danny Cahill

Registration for this event will be available during the first week of November. Be sure to register early so you can lock in the special Early Bird Registration rate.

There’s no better way to kick off spring than by joining us for two days of top-tier training, networking, and inspiration in Music City. Save the date and get ready for TE Connect Spring 2025—we can’t wait to see you in Nashville.

Stay tuned for more updates!

If you have any questions about the upcoming registration (or about any other aspects of the convention), please contact me at 330.595.1742 or via email at drea@topechelon.com.

We’re thrilled to announce (or re-announce, for that matter) that Top Echelon now has an exclusive referral program available to all TE Network members and users of our recruiting software.

This is your chance to boost your income in 2025 while helping other recruiters discover the power of our recruiting network and ATS!

Here’s How It Works: As a valued customer, you can now refer other recruiters to join our recruiting network or use our ATS—and get paid for it! It’s that simple. We’re offering a 20% referral fee for the first year on any referrals that sign up and use our services. (Please note that this does not include Top Echelon’s 6% brokerage fee on split placements.)

What You’ll Get:

• 20% commission for all valid referrals
• A second 20% commission if your referral joins both TE Network and uses our ATS

How to Get Started: Joining is easy! CLICK HERE to fill out the application and become a part of our referral program.

Chris Jackson

Once you sign up, Chris Jackson from Top Echelon will reach out to schedule a brief 15-minute call. During this call, Chris will walk you through:

• PartnerStack, our portal for managing payouts and referrals
• How to access your unique referral link
• How to start earning commissions by referring other recruiters!

Why Join Now? At Top Echelon, your success is our priority. By joining the referral program, you’ll have the opportunity to increase your earnings while helping others discover the tools that make recruiting more efficient.

With 2025 right around the corner, now is the perfect time to get up to speed and position yourself for a profitable year ahead.

Don’t wait! Join our referral program today and take the first step toward boosting your income in 2025!

If you’re a member of Top Echelon’s recruiting network, then you want great recruiter relationships. After all, you’ve made split placements a part of your desk, have you not?

Once upon a time, we ran a segment in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog titled “‘Comments’ and Compliments.” In this segment, we highlighted specific TE Network recruiters and the placements they’ve made together. To do so, we used the comments that those recruiters submitted with their Completed Placement Forms.

As you might imagine, trends begin to emerge over time. That’s because certain characteristics almost always lead to success.

In fact, we’ve gathered those certain characteristics together in this blog post. Based upon placements made in TE Network, below are seven characteristics of great recruiter relationships:

#1—Collaboration

The recruiters involved have a desire to make split placements and a desire to work together in a collaborative fashion.

#2—Cooperation

The recruiters may have a desire to make splits and work together initially, but that desire must compel them to fully participate in the “give and take” needed for a successful relationship.

#3—Responsiveness

Time kills all deals. That means time is money. That’s why the best relationships include trading partners who respond and who respond quickly.

#4—Communication

It’s not just the frequency with which you communicate, but also how well you communicate that makes a big difference.

#5—Motivation

This speaks to a sense of urgency. If hiring managers must have a sense of urgency, then trading partners must have it, as well.

#6—Niche knowledge

When a recruiter knows their niche thoroughly, that allows them to act quickly to make the correct decisions regarding people and situations.

#7—Candidate assessment

The ability to identify top talent will always give recruiters an edge, no matter if it’s a split placement scenario or a full-fee situation.

Do YOU want more great recruiter relationships in Top Echelon’s split network?

Then contact Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at 330.595.1742 or via email at drea@topechelon.com.

In this latest installment in our “Planning Your Network Success” series of blog posts, I’m going to discuss maneuverability in recruiting. By that, I mean how Network members are able to maneuver around inside the TE Network software.

The software, of course, is a networking software. It’s been designed to help recruiters share information more easily and more effectively, so they can make more split placements together.

How well a Network member grasps the software can determine how successful they are. That’s why it would be to your advantage to put the technology that TE Network offers to good use.

Below are how the 5 Stages of a Networker apply to maneuverability in recruiting:

Stage 1 Networker

They are overwhelmed by the vast amount of information in the TE Network system. The number of systems, the terminology, and the complexity of the Network system seem overwhelming.

Stage 2 Networker

They’ve found that executing simple tasks in the Network Dashboard is relatively easy. They also understand that Top Echelon offers other features—like the Network Candidates sourcing tool—but they haven’t explored those yet.

Stage 3 Networker

They’re finding that operating the Network Dashboard is now a breeze. In addition, if they use Top Echelon’s recruiting software, they’re becoming very familiar with the TE Network system. They’re starting to see how the software can make their office more efficient in several ways.

Stage 4 Networker

They’re logged into the Network Dashboard from early morning through the end of the day. They view it as being an extension of their computer.

They can locate any type of candidate in minutes, and they recognize the power of having access to millions of resumes with the click of a mouse. They’re truly proficient with the software at this point, especially the Network Candidates sourcing tool.

Stage 5 Networker

Their entire office is connected to the Network Dashboard all day long, and they’re regularly communicating with other TE Network members, either by phone or through email and/or instant messaging.

They’ve come to rely heavily on the TE Network software and Top Echelon’s recruiting software, so much so that their computer has become a virtual filing cabinet of sorts for the Network. In short, they are taking FULL advantage of the technology offered by our elite recruiter network.

In my next blog post in this series, I’ll examine the essential element of expectations.

If you have any questions in the meantime—about this blog post, about the 5 Stages of a Networker, or about your split recruiting membership in TE Network—please contact me.

You can do do by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

Top Echelon offers a free monthly webinar as part of its Expert Recruiter Coaching Series.

These webinars touch upon a variety of recruiter-related topics. These topics deal with both job candidates and clients. As always, our goal with these webinars is to help agency recruiters and executive search consultants just like YOU make more placements.

We record these webinars for recruiters who can’t attend the live presentation, and we’re now pleased to offer the video from our most recent webinar by Scott Love of The Attorney Search Group.

The title of that webinar (and corresponding training video) is “Indispensable: How to Become the Only (or First Choice) Search Firm of Your Clients.”

Below is the official description for this training video:

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Scott Love

Business development is a priority for agency recruiters and search consultants in this market, and the next webinar video in Top Echelon’s Expert Recruiter Coaching Series will help recruiters in the pursuit of that priority.

That’s because Scott Love of The Attorney Search Group will show you how to become indispensable to your clients.

In this insightful and information-packed video, you’ll learn how to:

• Develop exclusive relationships with clients.
• Structure and sell long-term retainer projects.
• Pitch work to clients so that they say “Yes!”
• Harvest other opportunities that spin off exclusive relationships.

The fourth quarter of the year is upon us, so gear up to finish 2024 strong and next year with a bang by watching this FREE training video about “How to Become the Only (or First Choice) Search Firm of Your Clients”!

Watch this FREE training video!

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Recorded versions of our Expert Recruiter Coaching Series of webinars are posted on our website as free online recruitment training courses in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Library.

Keep an eye out for the next free webinar in our Expert Recruiter Coaching Series!