A few weeks ago, Top Echelon Network recruiters Christina Boudreaux of Connectly Recruiting and Ann Boland of The Boland Group accounted for the largest split fee of the week. Christina and Ann placed a Senior Vice President of Business Development to earn a fee of $52,500 at 25%.

Well, we now have another $52,500 recruiting fee! Accounting for this one are Brad McMillan of RPM ReSearch and Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc. Brad and Steve placed a Director of Site Operations at 25% to generate that fee.

However, as you can see below, that wasn’t the only big fee in the Network this week. There are a few others, as well. We’re glad that as 2023 draws to a close, Top Echelon recruiters are still making split placements together and still earning large fees as a result.

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 December 11, through December 17, 2023.

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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Sara Alexandroff

Nick Stoia, CPC

Job recruiter: Nick Stoia, CPC of ASAP Search

Candidate recruiter: Sara Alexandroff of Sterling St. James, LLC

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $17,600

Fee percentage: 22%

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Scott Krepps

Amy Chapman

Job recruiter: Amy Chapman of Key People

Candidate recruiter: Scott Krepps of First Search, Inc.

Job title: CHEMICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $23,750

Fee percentage: 25%

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Jim Strickland

Amy Chapman

Job recruiter: Amy Chapman of Key People

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource Recruiters

Job title: CHEMICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $30,000

Fee percentage: 25%

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Adam Pantelli

Paul Bossert

Job recruiter: Paul Bossert of Premier Employment Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Adam Pantelli of AJ Search

Job title: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Overall placement fee: $31,250

Fee percentage: 25%

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Brad Dodge

Holly Weber

Job recruiter: Holly Weber of Global Talent Resources Corp.

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER/DESIGN ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $18,750

Fee percentage: 25%

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Brad Dodge

Job recruiter: Blake Pellerin (inactive)

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum

Job title: TRANSPORTATION PROJECT MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $23,000

Fee percentage: Flat

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Steve Kohn

Brad McMillan

Job recruiter: Brad McMillan of RPM ReSearch

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

Job title: DIRECTOR OF SITE OPERATIONS

Overall placement fee: $52,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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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.

At Top Echelon, we’re ALL about best practices. That’s especially the case with our split fee recruiting network.

Over the course of the past several weeks, I’ve been presenting some quick tips for more success in Top Echelon Network. And I’m glad to announce that I have more of them!

As I’ve stated before, success in the Network results from a combination of proficiency with both human interaction and technology, including Top Echelon’s recruiting database of candidates and job orders.

(For specific questions about Top Echelon software and/or technology, the Help Center is available 24/7 to answer your questions and provide assistance.)

With all of this in mind, below are even MORE quick tips for experiencing success in Top Echelon’s recruiter network:

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Tip #1: Never Source Off Another Member’s Candidate

Never “source off” or try to gain referrals from another Top Echelon Network member’s candidate.

This is in violation of Network Policy #2.

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Tip #2: Keep Your Trading Partners Apprised

Keep your split trading partners apprised of ANY activity that happens regarding their candidates. That way, they don’t have to waste their time trying to find out the status of the job order in question.

You MUST notify them in advance of any “FACE-TO-FACE” interviews that you have arranged. You SHOULD notify them in advance of any PHONE interviews that you have arranged. In addition, you MUST provide post-interview feedback to the other member, regardless of whether it’s a PHONE interview or a “FACE-TO-FACE” interview.

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Tip #3: When to Break Communication

Top Echelon Network urges recruiters to break the chain of communication with a candidate for a period of no less than 18 months after:

• The candidate is placed in a direct hire position.
• The placement fee is received and split between the two recruiters.
• The guarantee period is satisfied.

Assuming the chain of communication was broken, if that candidate decides on their own after 18 months to initiate contact with either of the recruiters, that is their prerogative.

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If you want to be more successful in the Network right NOW, then please contact me.

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

This week’s networking tip may just be the shortest one we have. But its brevity is eclipsed only by its importance.

Enjoying success as a member of Top Echelon’s recruiter network is all about having the proper attitude and frame of mind. This tip deals directly with that.

And, as usual, the tip is also tied to one of The Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network. Specifically, that Pillar is Communication. The way in which Network recruiters view each other directly impacts the way in which they communicate with one another.

If you view other recruiters in Top Echelon Network in the proper fashion and you communicate with them in the correct way, then networking success is going to follow. And split placement success is going to follow that.

So let me stop yammering and get on with it. “Networking Tip #7” is as follows:

Don’t view other recruiters in the Network as competitors. View other recruiters as trading partners. You can both help each other make money!

Oftentimes, the majority of a recruiter’s placements are completed within a 250-mile radius. If you’re serious about making split placements, then you’ll learn to appreciate the help that nearby recruiters can give you with local candidates and local job orders.

Some recruiters may not want Top Echelon Network to grant membership to other recruiters in their hometown or in their area. However, a change in attitude can generate tremendous financial rewards.

After all, no recruiter can be in all places at one time. Therefore, by teaming up, they’ll be stronger than they were on their own.

Most rookie networkers do not feel this way. However, experienced networkers have reaped monetary rewards by adopting this new attitude.

If you have any questions, please contact me by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

It’s that time of year again! Yes, that’s right—it’s the END of the year. (You can almost set your calendar by it.) And with the end of the year comes the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays.

As you might have already guessed, that means it’s time for us to publish our upcoming holiday hours. That way, you’ll know when we’re in the office and when we’re not.

Making you guess might be more fun, but it might also make you angry. We wouldn’t like you when you’re angry, so . . .

Offices closed for one week (and a day)

The Top Echelon Software offices will be closed the week of Monday, December 25, plus Monday of the following week, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays.

Specifically, this means our offices will be closed Monday, December 25, through Friday, December 29, and also on Monday, January 1.

These hours apply to:

• Top Echelon’s recruiting network
• Top Echelon’s applicant tracking system

The Top Echelon offices will re-open for business as usual at 8 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Tuesday, January 2.

Like Thanksgiving, this is the time of year to be grateful for everything you have. We at Top Echelon are certainly grateful to have all of you as customers.

We’re thankful for your commitment as Network members, we’re glad to call many of you friends, and we’re hopeful that this holiday means as much to you as it does to us.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Top Echelon Customer Success Manager J.D. Fye recently conducted a special Training Tuesday webinar titled, “In Case You Missed It: A Review of Top Echelon’s 2023 Updates!”

You may have attended this free webinar on Tuesday, December 5. 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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This year has been a big one for updates and integrations for the Top Echelon ATS! So big, in fact, that even Customer Success Manager J.D. Fye forgot about a couple of them.

Join J.D. for another Top Echelon Training Tuesday webinar video, as he refreshes his memory and quickly covers all of the highlights from earlier in the year, such as:

• Mentions
• Hotlist sharing
• Virtual meeting links
• A whole bunch of integrations and quality of life updates
• The Professional Tier, Including Automations and Forms
• And much, much more!

So finish the year strong by reviewing some of what happened during it and watch “In Case You Missed It: A Review of Top Echelon’s 2023 Updates!”

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.