Last week, Michael Stuck of Gable Search Group led the way in terms of weekly placements in Top Echelon Network, as he was part of seven splits.

This week, we have another leader. That recruiter is Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC. Michael was part of five split placements to pace the weekly production within the Network.

As you can see below, Top Echelon members made 17 splits overall recently. Some of them commanded rather large recruiting fees.

Matt O’Mara of Cranbrook Search Consultants and Naomi Mosley of Naomi Mosley accounted for the largest fee of the bunch. Matt and Naomi placed a VP of Market Research Operations to earn a flat fee of $37,500.

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 period from November 28 through December 4, 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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Job recruiter: Tim Hopkins, CPC/CTS of Stephens International Recruiting, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Deb North of Deb North

Job title: CT/MRI MEDICAL IMAGING FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $24,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Matt O’Mara of Cranbrook Search Consultants

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: SENIOR INSIGHTS CONSULTANT – MARKET RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Overall placement fee: $17,500

Fee percentage: Flat

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Job recruiter: Matt O’Mara of Cranbrook Search Consultants

Candidate recruiter: Naomi Mosley of Naomi Mosley

Job title: VP – MARKET RESEARCH OPERATIONS

Overall placement fee: $37,500

Fee percentage: Flat

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Job recruiter: CDP Support

Candidate recruiter: Bob White of Impact Solutions, Inc.

Job title: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT – REMOTE/HYBRID

Overall placement fee: $8,460

Fee percentage: 18%

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Job recruiter: Nick Stoia of ASAP Search

Candidate recruiter: Brian Hulecki of Career Transitions, LLC

Job title: PROJECT SYSTEMS ANALYST – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Overall placement fee: $25,961

Fee percentage: 30%

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Job recruiter: Amy Chapman of Key People Staffing

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: SR. PRODUCTION MANAGER (HIGH-SPEED BOTTLING)

Overall placement fee: $27,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Robert Litton of Litton Resource Group

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of Cameron Craig Group

Job title: QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER – FOOD MANUFACTURING

Overall placement fee: $9,500

Fee percentage: 10%

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Job recruiter: Mark Udulutch, CPC of Markent Personnel

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource Recruiters

Job title: ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $18,000

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Troy Randolph of Lea Randolph & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: David Cuozzo of CrowdSourced Recruiting (inactive)

Job title: REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SALES – HOME HEALTH

Overall placement fee: $25,200

Fee percentage: 18%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: John Ricciardi of Afton Consulting Group

Job title: SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST HOME HEALTH

Overall placement fee: $16,800

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David Cuozzo of CrowdSourced Recruiting (inactive)

Job title: PHYSICAL THERAPIST HOME HEALTH

Overall placement fee: $18,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: LPN HOME HEALTH INTAKE COORDINATOR

Overall placement fee: $12,400

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David Cuozzo of CrowdSourced Recruiting (inactive)

Job title: PHYSICAL THERAPLIST HOME HEALTH

Overall placement fee: $18,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David Cuozzo of CrowdSourced Recruiting (inactive)

Job title: RN HOME HEALTH

Overall placement fee: $18,600

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Tim Wielinski of Horizon Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Brian Hulecki of Career Transitions, LLC

Job title: DATA ANALYST

Overall placement fee: $24,000

Fee percentage: 30%

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Job recruiter: Antoinette (Toni) Nucci of Toni Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: CERTIFIED SURGICAL TECHNICIAN

Overall placement fee: $5,948

Fee percentage: 13%

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Job recruiter: Dyann Ivey of Automationtechies

Candidate recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Job title: PROJECT MANAGER – ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $20,250

Fee percentage: 22.5%

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If you’re a newer Network 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.

As we recently announced, Early Bird Registration for the Top Echelon Connect 2023 event is now live. You can sign up for the convention at the Early Bird price of just $495 per person.

As a reminder, below is the logistical information associated with Connect 2023:

• Dates: Thursday, March 9, and Friday, March 10
• Location: Harrah’s New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Room Rate: $195 per night

There will be a total of four speakers at Top Echelon Connect 2023. They include:

The official name of the venue is Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel & Casino. Below are some of the attractions and amenities at the hotel:

A truly one-of-a-kind escape filled with authentic New Orleans flavor and flair awaits you at Harrah’s. Located just steps from the iconic French Quarter, check into one of 450 plush rooms and suites, experience the big betting thrills of the new Caesars Sportsbook and WSOP Poker Room, and take in a show at the legendary Fillmore.

In addition to the casino and sportsbook, other attractions at the hotel include:

• Shows
• Restaurants
• Nightlife
• Shopping

Click HERE for more information about Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel & Casino.

For the Gala Event, a tradition at Top Echelon’s spring convention, we’ll be headed to the Bayou Barn. Below is the official description of the Bayou Barn on the establishment’s website:

Bayou Barn is a beautiful, unique rustic event venue located just 20 minutes from New Orleans situated right on the bayou. This authentic Cajun venue offers a large enclosed barn furnished with wooden tables and white chairs, festoon lighted inside and out, perfect for any corporate or private event and weddings. It also boasts expansive outdoor gardens, a huge outdoor deck for ceremonies and a charming pergola that extends out over the water. Our in-house catering, with a large stage for live music, & full on-site bar service will surely satisfy your guests. We have air conditioning, heating, are fully powered and can serve anywhere from 10-1,200 guests.

Click HERE for more information about the Bayou Barn.

So as you can see, not only will there be plenty of networking and business-related activities at Top Echelon Connect 2023, but there will also be a lot of fun to be had. And you’re not going to be able to have the fun unless you join us in New Orleans!

As we’ve done for our past several events, we have a special website dedicated to Top Echelon Connect 2023. The URL for that website is conventions.topechelon.com. Or you can click the link below to get started:

Click HERE to register for Top Echelon Connect 2023!

We want to help make 2023 a great year for you and your agency. So register now and join us in New Orleans!

If you have any questions about registration (or about any other aspects of this event), please contact me by calling 330.595.1742 or via email at drea@topechelon.com. Or you can contact Network Success Specialist River Kale via email at rkale@topechelon.com.

I’m pleased to announce the Virtual Core Group (VCG) meeting schedule for the month of December!

For those of you who don’t know, Top Echelon Network recruiters share the following information during Virtual Core Group teleconference call meetings:

• Hot job orders and candidates
• Information about the activity they’re seeing in the marketplace and/or in their niche
• Ideas for increased production on their desks and within their agencies

These are the activities that lead most directly to making split placements in Top Echelon Network.

So that is why I’m inviting—or in other words, strongly encouraging—you to attend one of this month’s Virtual Core Group meetings. Below is the complete VCG schedule for December, including the industries involved and the time that each meeting will be held. (Note: all times are Eastern.)

Wednesday, December 14:

• 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. — Manufacturing/Engineering
• 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. — Information Technology
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. — Biotechnology/Pharmacology

Thursday, December 15:

• 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. — Architectural/Engineering/Construction
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. — Accounting & Finance

You can join the meeting to which you belong by accessing the information listed below.

Google Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/qba-qdic-kou

Below is the agenda for each Virtual Core Group meeting:

1. Welcome
2. Roll call of the members
3. I will share the newest software updates for both Top Echelon Network and the Top Echelon recruiting software.
4. Members will share their hot jobs with corresponding group discussion.
5. I will direct a software and Network protocol Q&A session to close the call.

It is my goal that this agenda will help you take away more from the meeting than just hot jobs and/or candidates. Hopefully, it will help make you more knowledgeable in terms of the Top Echelon community.

If you’d like to join one of the groups listed above or if you’d like to start a new group, please contact me.

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

Last week in the “Planning Your Network Success” series, I tackled the topic of trading partners and how they pertain to The 5 Stages of a Networker. However, I only covered the first three stages.

This week, I’m completing our look at trading partners by covering the Stage 4 Networker and Stage 5 Networker. As I mentioned previously, this is where the real money is made in Top Echelon Network. The recruiters in these stages are those who are the most successful in the Network, those who produce year after year after year.

Once again, my analysis includes descriptions of each stage and the three groups of recruiters involved in the process of networking—the Outer Circle Size, the Inner Circle Size, and the Core Group Size.

Stage 4 Networker:

They’ve experienced almost every type of recruiter and not much gets them worked up. They treat their trading partners like they would treat a client company. That is, they give them respect in everything they do.

They now have at least one very solid trading partner on whom they’ve come to rely, and vice-versa. They trust this trading partner implicitly. The both have mutually agreed to assist each other in completing a minimum of one or two placements each year. In order to do so, they try to screen in the other’s candidate, rather than find reasons why a candidate doesn’t fit.

Outer Circle Size: Actual count is the current size of Top Echelon Network. Now that the Stage 4 Networker is able to consistently submit their candidates and job orders, this outer circle will regularly produce a steady stream of revenue for them and show them who their next inner circle trading partners will be.

Anticipated placement billings = $10,000 to $20,000.

Inner Circle Size: Fifteen to 25 recruiters. A Stage 4 Networker has been around the Network long enough that they feel pretty comfortable with between 15 and 25 recruiters. These recruiters may not work identically to the way they do, but they can definitely accept their styles and make money with them.

Anticipated placement billings = $15,000 to $25,000.

Core Group Size: Two to four recruiters. A Stage 4 Networker is spending more time developing their core group trading partner relationships, and each has great confidence in the other’s ability. Whether their commitment to each other is spoken or unspoken, both know that they will help the other make split placements.

Anticipated placement billings = $20,000 to $40,000.

Stage 5 Networker:

They know that they have a highly talented core group of trading partners on whom they can rely. They are always looking to their outer circle for new talent they can bring into their inner circle or core group.

They are willing to give any new networker a chance because they understand the growth and development of a networker. They treat every recruiter in their outer circle and inner circle with as much respect as they treat those in their core group. This is the mark of a champion!

Outer Circle Size: Actual count is the current size of Top Echelon Network. The Stage 5 Networker is well known in the Network as a pillar of strength! They are ethical, hard working, and highly productive. People are in awe over their ability to produce year after year. Everybody likes working with a winner, and the Stage 5 Networker’s reputation alone will cause more people to place their candidates and respond to their job orders, thus driving their outer circle placements higher.

Anticipated placement billings = $30,000 to $60,000.

Inner Circle Size: Twenty-five to 50 recruiters. Again, the Stage 5 Networker’s reputation for success causes recruiters to want to work with them. This will cause their inner circle to grow and improve in quality.

Anticipated placement billings = $30,000 to $60,000.

Core Group Size: Four to 10 recruiters. The Stage 5 Networker has an extremely tight working relationship with their core group of trading partners. They know each other very well.  They even vacation together. Their spouses know each other. They are concerned about the health of each other’s business. They need each other. Some core group trading partner relationships are so consistent and reliable that the recruiters involved will even go so far as to obtain an insurance policy on each other in the event that one is unable to continue generating income for the other. Death is about the only thing that will separate the relationship.

Anticipated placement billings = $40,000 to $100,000.

In my next blog post in this series, I’ll examine Network billings, the economy, and all 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 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.

This email is to inform you that there will be a 5% price increase for Top Echelon products and services effective on January 1, 2023. This price increase affects the following:

• Top Echelon’s recruiting software
• Texting
• Top Echelon Network membership dues
• Job posting

First and foremost, the membership dues for Top Echelon Network will increase from $130 per month to $135 per month. (However, please note that the 6% brokerage fee will remain the same.)

In addition, the price of Top Echelon’s recruiting software will increase from $75 per user per month to $79 per user per month.

Keep in mind that if you’re a Network member and you do not use Top Echelon’s recruiting software, the price of monthly membership dues is still increasing from $130 per month to $135 per month.

At Top Echelon, we’re committed to continually improving our ATS and CRM. This price increase helps to ensure our commitment to providing the very best products and services for our customers. See a comprehensive list of the updates and upgrades that we’ve made to our recruiting software, both our ATS and the Top Echelon Network software for making split placements.

We thank you for your loyalty as a Top Echelon Software customer, and we hope to continue serving your needs and the needs of your agency far into the future.