With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, activity in Top Echelon has slowed a bit recently. That should be the case this coming week, as well, as Network members celebrate the holiday with family and friends.

In the meantime, we’d like to recognize those TE recruiters who did make placements last week. We’d especially like to mention Laurie Burden of The Recruiting Pro and Bethany Brevard York of Professional Outlook, Inc.

Laurie and Bethany earned the largest recruiting fee of the week in the Network. The duo scored a $33,300 fee for placing a Pilot Operations Manager at 18%.

As a friendly neighborhood reminder, here is the information that we publish with our weekly placements:

• Names of the split recruiting partners involved (with their profile photos, when available)
• Job title
• Overall placement fee (before TE’s 6% brokerage fee, of course)
• Fee percentage

Please note that the placements listed below reflect deals finalized in Top Echelon Network for the two-week period from November 14 through November 20, 2022.

Remember, if you don’t want information related to your Network placements published in The Pinnacle, please send an email to marketing@topechelon.com to that effect.

Congratulations to everybody below for the split placements they made in Top Echelon Network!

This Week’s Top Echelon Split Placements

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Brad Dodge

Cathy George, CPC

Job recruiter: Cathy George, CPC of C.G. & Company

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: REVERSE OSMOSIS MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $23,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Scott Krepps

Mark Udulutch, CPC

Job recruiter: Mark Udulutch of Markent Personnel

Candidate recruiter: Scott Krepps of Hiring Solutions Group

Job title: MACHINE SHOP SUPERVISOR

Overall placement fee: $20,750

Fee percentage: 25%

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Phil Hurd

Gary Kaufman

Job recruiter: Gary Kaufman of ExcelliSearch, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Phil Hurd of Oculus Search Partners, LLC

Job title: TECHNICAL RECRUITER – REMOTE

Overall placement fee: $10,000

Fee percentage: Flat

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Bob White

Steve Schanz, CPC

Job recruiter: Steve Schanz, CPC of CPS Recruitment

Candidate recruiter: Bob White of Impact Solutions, Inc.

Job title: EQUIPMENT ENGINEER/TECHNICIAN

Overall placement fee: $20,000

Fee percentage: 25%

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Bethany Brevard York

Laurie Burden

Job recruiter: Laurie Burden of The Recruiting Pro

Candidate recruiter: Bethany Brevard York of Professional Outlook, Inc.

Job title: PILOT OPERATIONS MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $33,300

Fee percentage: 18%

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Michael Stuck

Mark Shemroske

Job recruiter: Mark Shemroske of Tri-S Recruiters, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $28,150

Fee percentage: 22.5%

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If you’re a newer TE member and you’d like to enjoy more success in our recruiter network, then I encourage you to contact Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

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

In my previous blog post in the “Planning Your Network Success” series, I addressed Active Participation, one of The Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network, in terms of the information that members submit.

Of course, I also discussed submissions within the framework of The 5 Stages of a Networker.

This week, I’m going to tackle another one of The Four Pillars—Quality—and once again, it will be within the context of The 5 Stages of a Networker. That’s because we don’t just want recruiters to actively participate in the Network and submit their candidates and job orders. We also want them to submit high-quality candidates and job orders.

Why? Because that’s the quickest way to make more split placements!

We want everybody in this Network to make more split placements . . . and the road to more splits begins with Active Participation AND Quality in recruiting.

This week’s breakdown of Quality and The 5 Stages of a Networker is below:

Stage 1 Networker

They always hold back their excellent candidates and excellent job orders so they can earn a full fee, and they only share what they cannot use.

Stage 2 Networker

Although their intentions are good, they still hold back their excellent candidates and job orders. They’ll share their mediocre candidates and job orders, but they try to keep the best for themselves.

Stage 3 Networker

They take pride in the quality of the candidates and job orders they share. They’re not wasting time passing non-quality items. They’re sharing most of their relatively good candidates and job orders, but they’ll still hold back their exceptional items for themselves.

Stage 4 Networker

They deal in quality. Their “I’s” are dotted and “T’s” are crossed! They expect the same from their core group of trading partners, but they are somewhat forgiving of everybody else who isn’t in their core group.

Stage 5 Networker

Same as a Stage 4 Networker. They deal in quality!

In my next blog post in this series, I’ll examine trading partners in regards to The 5 Stages of a Networker.

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 Top Echelon Network—please contact me.

You can do so 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 professional recruiters and executive search consultants just like YOU make more placements.

We record these webinars for those recruiters who can’t attend the live presentation, and we’re now pleased to offer the video from our most recent webinar by Greg Doersching, President of Next Level Coaching.

The title of that webinar (and corresponding training video) is “4 Critical Strategies for Making 2023 Your Best Year Ever!”

Below is the official description for this training video:

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The world of recruiting is ever-changing. Practices that have worked for the past 10 years have suddenly lost their effectiveness on both the candidate and client side of the desk. Well, the one thing that hasn’t changed is a recruiter’s desire to make more placements!

That’s why you should attend the next webinar in Top Echelon’s Expert Recruiter Coaching Series, because that’s what this session by Greg Doersching of Next Level Coaching is all about. Specifically, it’s about the four most essential tactics you need to employ in your everyday recruiting routine. During this information-packed webinar, Greg will walk and talk attendees through the following four questions:

• What is the most effective way to land new clients in 2023?
• What is the easiest way to stop being a contingency-heavy desk?
• How can you have more candidates coming to you instead of you hunting for them?
• How can you prevent candidates from “ghosting” during interviews?

There will also be an open Q&A session after the webinar, during which Greg will answer any question you may have. This is the session you simply don’t want to miss heading into the New Year, so watch this video for “4 Critical Strategies for Making 2023 Your Best Year Ever!”

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!

Top Echelon Customer Success Manager J.D. Fye recently conducted a special Training Tuesday webinar titled, ‘Get on the Nice List with Holiday Email Best Practices”!

J.D. Fye

You may have attended this free webinar on Tuesday, November 1. On the other hand, you may not have been in attendance.

Regardless, we have the recorded version of the webinar, which I am presenting to you now. (The recording is also located in the Top Echelon Help Center.)

If you are not a user of our recruiting software, then check out the video, anyway, to see how the software could benefit your recruiting desk and agency.

We at Top Echelon are continually working to make the resources that we provide to our customers better, and this is yet more proof!

Below is the official description of this training video:

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Believe it or not, the last two months of the year are upon us . . . and so is the holiday season!

Which means you need to join Top Echelon Customer Success Manager J.D. Fye for our next FREE Training Tuesday webinar video, during which J.D. presents gifts in the form of email tips, tricks, and best practices:

• Options for getting started with email in the Top Echelon ATS
• Creating templates and signature files
• Best practices for mass emailing
• A new setting for default font and text size
• And much more!

So don’t get the holiday blues. Instead, watch this video and “Get on the Nice List with Holiday Email Best Practices”!

Watch this Help Center training video!

Remember to check The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog every week for more updates regarding Top Echelon software improvements and upgrades.

If you have any questions about how you can maximize your Top Echelon split network membership, please contact Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

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