What’s the only thing better than landing recruiting fees in TE Network?

Landing BIG recruiting fees in TE Network, that’s what! (Actually, landing multiple BIG recruiting fees would be best . . . you know, if you’re keeping score at home.)

And the “biggest of the big” recruiting fee in TE Network for the month of November was $40,750. The recruiters earning that fee were Carol Calvano of Calvano Search Consultants, LLC and Orlando Bullock of KBOtek, LLC.

And, as you might have noticed, the Recruiter of the Month in TE Network for November, Sara Alexandroff, scored two fees in the top five during the month. The fees associated with those placements were $37,200 and $35,000.

So somebody DID land multiple big recruiting fees in TE Network during November!

As a friendly reminder, Top Echelon determines the monthly and quarterly winners of its TE Network split fee recruiting awards in four distinct categories:

1.) Recruiter of the Month
2.) Largest Split Fee of the Month
3.) Recruiter of the Quarter
4.) Largest Split Fee of the Quarter

We only announce the winners of these awards in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog. We do so usually (but not always) in the issue following the conclusion of each month and/or quarter.

So congratulations to everybody on the list below for scoring some BIG placement fees during the month!

Largest Split Fees – November 2024

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First Place:

Carol Calvano of Calvano Search Consultants, LLC and Orlando Bullock of KBOtek, LLC

Orlando Bullock

Carol Calvano

The position for this split placement was a Maintenance Reliability Engineer – Rotating Equipment and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 25%.

Carol was the job order recruiter and Orlando was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $40,750.

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Second Place:

Amy Chapman of Key People Staffing and Sara Alexandroff of Sterling St. James, Inc.

Sara Alexandroff

Amy Chapman

The position for this split placement was a Corporate Director of Engineering and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 20%.

Amy was the job order recruiter and Sara was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $37,200.

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Third Place:

Laura Petraitis-Doll of LS Doll & Associates and Sara Alexandroff of Sterling St. James, Inc.

Sara Alexandroff

Laura Petraitis-Doll

The position for this split placement was a Safety Manager and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 25%.

Laura was the job order recruiter and Sara was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $35,000.

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Fourth Place:

Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search and Stephen Kirk of Stephen Kirk

Stephen Kirk

Debbi Reiger

The position for this split placement was an Oracle Supply Chain and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 20%.

Debbi was the job order recruiter and Stephen was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $34,000.

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Fifth Place:

Dennis Cupp of Austin Allen Company, LLC and Mike Pettit of Channel Personnel Services, Inc.

Matt Pettit

Dennis Cupp

The position for this split placement was a Process Controls Engineer – Electrical Instrumentation Engineer and the fee percentage associated with this placement was 25%.

Dennis was the job order recruiter and Mike was the candidate recruiter.

The fee for this split placement was $32,500.

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If YOU want to make more money through Top Echelon’s recruiter network, then contact Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

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

Sara Alexandroff of Sterling St. James, LLC has done it again.

What has she done, you may ask? Why, she’s won Recruiter of the Month honors in TE Network!

With Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting dominating the award for much of the year, Sara has staked her claim to being a multiple winner herself.

And as you can see below, she is also slowly approaching the TE Network milestones of 100 split placements and $1 million cash-in.

At her current pace of production, in another couple years, she will find herself in the Top Echelon Hall of Fame!

Here is the information that we include with the Recruiter of the Month feature in TE Network:

1. The top five (5) recruiters for the month.
2. The cash-in total for each recruiter during the month. (We base the order of the recruiters on their amount of cash-in dollars, as opposed to the number of split placements they’ve made.)
3. The number of splits that the recruiters made during the month.
4. The number of splits each recruiter has made during their TE Network career.
5. Each recruiter’s cash-in total for their TE Network career.

With this format, it’s more likely that there will be ties among recruiters, especially with those TE Network members who have made split placements with each other.

Congratulations to the recruiters listed below . . . and congratulations to every TE Network member who made a split placement (or multiple splits) during the month!

Recruiters of the Month – November 2024

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First Place:

Sara Alexandroff

Recruiter: Sara Alexandroff
Agency: Sterling St. James, LLC
Placements: Five (5)
Cash-in total: $45,218.39
Career Top Echelon placements: 83
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $715,563.08

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Second Place:

Laura Petraitis-Doll

Recruiter: Laura Petraitis-Doll 
Agency: LS Doll & Associates
Placements: Two (2)
Cash-in total: $29,962.50
Career Top Echelon placements: 38
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $403,809.11

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Third Place:

Brad Dodge

Recruiter: Brad Dodge
Agency: iLocatum Recruiting
Placements: Three (3)
Cash-in total: $29,916.44
Career Top Echelon placements: 182
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $1,473,577.37

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Fourth Place:

Michael Stuck

Recruiter: Michael Stuck
Agency: Gables Search Group
Placements: Four (4)
Cash-in total: $23,902.63
Career Top Echelon placements: 584
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $4,183,526.43

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Fifth Place:

Teresa Pernini

Recruiter: Teresa Pernini 
Agency: Pernini Legal, LLC
Placements: Two (2)
Cash-in total: $23,735.00
Career Top Echelon placements: 6
Career Top Echelon cash-in: $23,735.00

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If YOU want to make more money through Top Echelon’s recruiter network, then contact Director of Network Operations, Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

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

It’s the last month of 2024! Which means we have the TE Network anniversaries for the last month of 2024!

And as you can see below, we have some big anniversaries this month. In fact, we have two recruiting agencies that are celebrating their 30th anniversary in TE Network. They are:

• Alternate Route in San Diego, California
• The David Wood Company in Vancouver, Washington

However, we also have a pair of recruiting agencies that are celebrating TE Network anniversaries of more than 20 years. They are:

• LS Doll & Associates in Orland Park, Illinois
• Personnel Services Unlimited in Shelby, North Carolina

When recognizing Network agencies for their anniversaries, Top Echelon includes the name of the agency; the length of the anniversary; and the location of the agency, including the city and state.

So congratulations to all of the agencies celebrating anniversaries in our split fee recruiting network during the month of December!

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30-Year Anniversary

• Alternate Route, San Diego, CA
• The David Wood Company, Vancouver, WA

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27-Year Anniversary

• LS Doll & Associates, Orland Park, IL

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24-Year Anniversary

• Personnel Services Unlimited, Shelby, NC

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17-Year Anniversary

• KV Resources, LLC, Wales, WI
• The Walstrom Group, Rogers, MN

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15-Year Anniversary

• Hire Horizons, Pickerington, OH

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9-Year Anniversary

• Sora Resource Group, LLC, Elizabethtown, KY

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8-Year Anniversary

• Personnel Resources, Tipp City, OH

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6-Year Anniversary

• Gary Thompson, Beaufort, SC
• LFP Associates, Odenton, MD

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5-Year Anniversary

• MDLink, Phoenix, AZ
• Top RANK, Cedar Rapids, IA

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4-Year Anniversary

• Accelerated Search Partners, Inc., West Chester, OH

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3-Year Anniversary

• Decide Consulting, Houston, TX
• Engineering Search Partners, Woodstock, GA

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1-Year Anniversary

• Caliber Recruiting, Columbus, OH
• Cantigny Group Inc., Wheaton, IL
• ExecuSearch USA, Tampa, FL
• KBOtek LLC, White Hall, MD
• National Staffing Services, Troy, MI
• Staffex, Tampa, FL
• Tri-Starr Group, San Antonio, TX

Thank you to all of these agencies and the many others that have joined TE Network over the years. We look forward to many more anniversaries and split placements in the years ahead!

Top Echelon Customer Success Manager Todd Bossler recently conducted a special Training Tuesday webinar titled, “Back to the Future with TE Recruit!”

You may have attended this free webinar on Tuesday, December 3. 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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The end of the year is upon us . . . and a brand-new year beckons. This is a great time to review all of the new updates, upgrades, and features that we’ve released in the TE Recruit software!

Todd Bossler

And it’s also a good time to preview what 2025 will bring for users of TE Recruit.

That’s exactly what Training and Support Manager Todd Bossler does during the next webinar video in the Top Echelon Training Tuesday series. Specifically, Todd will address:

• The new user interface (UI) of the TE Recruit software
• Automated text messaging
• The Smart-TE AI Job Description Generator
• The Smart-TE AI Search Generator
• New integration partners
• The all-new Themes feature
• What’s on the horizon . . . including sequencing!

So watch this FREE video, and let’s put a tidy bow on the entire year and look ahead to 2025 by going “Back to the Future with TE Recruit!”

Watch this Top Echelon ATS 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.

Okay, this where the “rubber meets the road,” so to speak.

That’s because we’re at the billings stage of our “Planning Your Network Success” series of blog posts. Specifically, I’m going to discuss how much the recruiters in each of The 5 Stages of a Networker typically bill within Top Echelon Network.

Because after all, what’s the bottom line when it comes to membership in a recruiting network?

Making placements!

As you might imagine, the higher level of a networker that a recruiter is, the more they’ll bill in Top Echelon Network. (And in actuality, the more they’ll bill overall, as well).

This is why we’re such big advocates of recruiter networking events, especially our Virtual Core Groups. Networking works and it works well on a number of different levels.

So, without further adieu, here’s what more networking could do for your billings in Top Echelon:

Stage 1 Networker:

Their billings are typically $0, whether it’s a good economy or a bad economy.

Stage 2 Networker:

Their billings are typically $0 to $10,000 during a 12-month period. In a strong economy, the Stage 2 Networker does not recognize the value of the Network to their bottom line.

Stage 3 Networker:

Their billings are typically $15,000 to $30,000 during a 12-month period, depending upon the economy. The Stage 3 Networker knows that their split recruiting business is important to their bottom line in both a good and bad economy.

Stage 4 Networker:

Their billings are typically $45,000 to $85,000 during a 12-month period. The Stage 4 Networker knows that their split business is important to their bottom line in both a good and bad economy.

Stage 5 Networker:

Their billings are typically $90,000 to $210,000 per year, depending upon the economy. A Stage 5 Networker recognizes that the machine needs to be oiled in both good times and bad times. They use the Network to make split placements under ALL economic conditions.

If you have any questions about this blog post, about The 5 Stages of a Networker, or about your 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.