First, she was profiled in our “Split Placement Spotlight.”  Now, Cindy Andrew Cordell, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC is part of our “Comments and Compliments” feature.

Why is that?  Because she took the time to compliment the Trading Partners in her two most recent split placements.

And as an added bonus, these were the first split fee recruiting placements that Cordell has made with these particular partners.  In fact, one of recruiters involved has only been a Preferred Member recruiter since March of 2011.

The main theme running through these compliments: “easy to work with.”  If that describes you, then you have an excellent chance to make split placements in Top Echelon Network—just like the recruiters included in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“This is the second time Paul Johnson and I have filled this position.  The last time, it was a ‘no start.’  This was a great candidate that Paul screened before presenting to me.  The candidate was a dynamo.  Paul is great to work with!”

Submitted by Cindy Andrew Cordell, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates

Position Title—MANAGER OF FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Cordell and Johnson have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Evidently, Mike Petras is relatively new to [Top Echelon], but he was a dream to work with.”

Submitted by Cindy Andrew Cordell, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Michael Petras of Michael Petras Recruiting

Position Title—FINANCIAL SYSTEMS CONTROLLER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Cordell and Petras have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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When Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters compliment each other for split placements, they use a variety of different words.  However, some words pop up over and over again, like the ones used in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

Those words include “true professional” and “good candidates.”  Those aren’t just words and phrases, though.  They’re also among the keys to making split placements in Top Echelon Network.

Enjoying success in the Network is all about relationships (which is what recruiting overall is about, as well).  The best way to achieve financial success in the Network and receive a substantial return on your investment of time and energy is to form great Training Partner relationships—and maybe even a few friendships.

If you’re “true professional” or you always provide “good candidates,” then you’ve already increased your chances for success in Top Echelon Network.

Make forming Trading Partner relationships your number-one priority in the Network . . . and the split placements will follow.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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<“Georgette is a true professional, and it is a pleasure to work with her.”

Submitted by David Kersey of Kersey & Associates, Inc. regarding his split placement with Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

Position Title—QUALITY ENGINEER MANAGER
Fee Percentage—30%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Kersey and Sandifer have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Thanks, Gail!  Keep those good candidates coming my way!”

Submitted by Richard Connors of Vista Technology regarding his split placement with Gail Williams of Williams Recruiting, Inc.

Position Title—DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the fourth split placement that Connors and Williams have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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There are many formulas for making split placements in Top Echelon’s recruiting network, but this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog illustrates one perfectly.  That formula is as follows:

Persistence + patience = split placements

That’s because the recruiters involved in this week’s installment of the feature reference both “patience” and “persistence” in their comments regarding their split placements.  Obviously, both were instrumental in the deal coming to fruition.

As a bonus, one of the split placements highlighted is the first between the recruiters, which means that it could be the first of many.  After all, when you’ve rewarded for your efforts with another recruiter with a placement fee, you’re more likely to work with that recruiter again . . . and make another split placement.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“Congratulations, Bob!  Thanks for sending [this candidate] to me.  The check came in today, and your portion is in the mail.  Thanks for your patience!”

Submitted by Clay Johnson of Clifton Johnson Associates, Inc. regarding his split placement with Bob Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.

Position Title—APPLICATIONS ENGINEEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Johnson and Wick have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Persistence pays off.  Candidate with the skill set that matched the job order and willing to travel extensively.  Done.  Thanks, Hani!”

Submitted by Rob Spaulding of Spaulding Associates regarding his split placement with Hani Mussa of KnowPeople, Inc.

Position Title—SENIOR ELECTRICAL TEST ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Spaulding and Mussa have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Early Bird Registration” for next week’s Fall Conference may be over, but there’s still plenty of time for you to register for the event.

There’s still time for you to meet other Network recruiters just like you, recruiters who work in the trenches every day and some who work in the same niche or industry that you do.

All it takes is meeting one recruiter at one of our recruiter conferences who becomes a Trading Partner.  That one Trading Partner relationship can have a tremendous impact on your recruiting desk.

Take, for example, Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc. and Mark London of Command Consultants, Inc., who met at the 1995 Top Echelon Network National Convention and are STILL making split placements together.  That’s right—their Trading Partner relationship is over 17 years old and it’s still a profitable one.

They made the commitment to attend a Network event, and now they’re the ones who are benefitting from that commitment.  Make a similar commitment and join us next week in Chicago for the Fall Conference.  There will be 120 other recruiters there just like you, who want to share information, who want to exchange hot job orders and candidates, and who want to Network.

Not only that, but some recruiters in attendance will be celebrating split placements they recently made together, like the one below by Robert Gabor of The Gabor Group and Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting.

You can register for the Fall Conference in the Members’ Area of the website or by clicking on the link above.  I certainly hope that I see you in Chicago next week, so that attending Top Echelon Network events can be every bit as beneficial to you as it’s been to these recruiters.

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“I met Mark at the [National] Convention in 1995, and we’ve been friends ever since.  He understands the job orders and always sends us qualified candidates.  We speak on a regular basis, and this placement is a result of our weekly conversations.”

Submitted by Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc. regarding his split placement with Mark London of Command Consultants, Inc.

Position Title—MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE
Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: this is the fourth split placement that Radzely and London have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Thanks for the good work.  We’ll drink to this one in Chicago!”

Submitted by Robert Gabor of The Gabor Group regarding his split placement with Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

Position Title—MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Gabor and Sandifer have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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In The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we’ve talked at length on numerous occasions about how once a Preferred Member makes a split placement with another Network recruiter, it gets easier to make another one with that same person.

They’re kind of Lay’s Potato Chips—you can’t eat just one (sort of).  Or they’re like television re-runs . . . except these are re-runs that you WANT to see.

If this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments” was a TV show about split placements, it would star Preferred Member recruiters Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting and Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

After all, they’ve made six split placements together, and all of those have occurred within the past 15 months.  Here’s one of their placements, and here’s another one, and here’s a third.

We’re highlighting yet another of their placements this week in The Pinnacle, as well as a pair of Preferred Member recruiters who recently made their first split together.  Who knows?  Maybe that placement will be the first of many for those recruiters, and they’ll also make six splits in the span of 15 months.

Because in the world of recruiters, split placements, potato chips, and television re-runs, you never know what’s going to happen.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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>“Larry and I have really had such good successes with this particular client.  He supplies great candidates (hooray!) and is so much fun to work with!”

Submitted by Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting regarding her split placement with Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

Position Title—SENIOR ELECTRICAL CONTROLS ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—22.5%

(Editor’s note: this is the sixth split placement that Sandifer and Radzely have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Thanks for a GREAT candidate, and finally we make a placement together!”

Submitted by Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Joanna Spaun of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Position Title—MATERIAL MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Ramsay and Spaun have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Why do Preferred Member recruiters like to work with one another in Top Echelon Network and make split placements?

The reasons are numerous, but one of them is highlighted in this week’s installment of “Comments and Compliments.”  That reason is simply this: because of the high-quality candidates that they present.

However, as you can see by the comments below, good candidates are just one half of the equation. The other half is the proper qualifying of those candidates, making sure that they’re still interested in a new opportunity and that they’re highly “place-able.”

And of course, this is also an example of two of the Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network—Quality and Active Participation.  If you actively participate in the Network and you do so in a quality manner (like sharing top-notch candidates in the Split Database), then you give yourself a much better chance of making split placements.

And of other recruiters wanting to work with you in the future.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Mike continues to have an amazing number of good candidates in the shared database.  More than half of the candidates in any given search I run seem to be his, and he’s always happy to update the candidate for me.  It seems to be paying off!”

Submitted by Carolyn Barcus of Barcus Associates regarding her split placement with Mike Cirner, CPC of Fowler Placement Services, Inc.

Position Title—SALES DEVELOPMENT INSURANCE VERTICAL
Fee Percentage—Flat Fee

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Barcus and Cirner have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Rhonda, thanks so much for a great lightweight engineer!”

Submitted by Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Rhonda Dove of KB Search Team, LLC

Position Title—PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Ramsay and Dove have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Most of the time, sequels to movies just aren’t as good as the original.  However, sequels to split placements are just as good—or even better!

Take, for instance, the first split placement highlighted below.  It doesn’t represent just a sequel, but a trilogy of placements, and that’s a 1-2-3 punch that anybody can appreciate.

And if this placement was a movie, then maybe it would be Casablanca, because the line, “Play it again, Sam” makes sense . . . although the recruiter’s name is Suzanne, not Sam . . . and Casablanca isn’t a sequel.

Okay, forget all of that for now and humor me for just a second.  Once you make a split placement with another Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network, it becomes easier to make another split placement with that recruiter.  And another.  And another.  (You get the idea.)

With that in mind, below are the placements highlighted in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

(Maybe split placements are like The Matrix movies.  Wait, make that Back to the Future.  Or Indiana Jones.  No, that was a series of four films, not three.  Darn it!)

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in our split fee recruiting network, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Good job again, Suzanne!  This is our third split, and all three have been positions for strategic sourcing of Indirect and Service category candidates—two my job, one your job, and all salaries from $100,000 to $110,000.  Looks like we’re becoming specialists!”

Submitted by Robert Gabor of The Gabor Group regarding his split placement with Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates

Position Title—CATEGORY MANAGER-INDIRECTS
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the third split placement that Gabor and Griffith have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Working with Bruce is always great.  He always sends me candidates that fit the disciplines I recruit for.  It’s no wonder that he’s so successful in TE.”

Submitted by Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates regarding his split placement with Bruce Ramstad of Bruce L. Ramstad

Position Title—INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SUPERVISOR
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Sunshine and Ramstad have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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In this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments,” we’re highlighting Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters who have made their first split placement with one another.

After all, there’s a first time for everything, and unlike some things, you actually WANT split fee recruiting placements to happen again.

And that’s the theme of this blog post.  Sure, it might have been the first time that these recruiters make a split together, but they certainly don’t want it to be the last time.  They want to make another and another and another . . . well, you get the general idea.

So while we congratulate these recruiters for their accomplishment, we also encourage them.  We encourage them to make more split placements—because we like split placements.  They give us a warm, fuzzy feeling all over.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“[This was the] first time that Rob and Ann worked together on ANY opening; hopefully, it won’t be the last!”

Submitted by Robert Inabnet of Management Search International regarding his split placement with Ann Boland of The Boland Group

Position Title—HOSPITAL LAB DIRECTOR/MED TECH
Fee Percentage—23%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Inabnet and Boland have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Thanks, Cindy!  Sydney is an excellent candidate!”

Submitted by Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates regarding his split placement with Cindy Ridley of HRTechies.com

Position Title—LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEARNING MANAGER
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Johnson and Ridley have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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When Preferred Member recruiters in Top Echelon recruiting network compliment one another, they use a variety of words to do so.

In this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments,” those words include “amazing” and on the “bullseye.”  Furthermore, when recruiters are complimented by their peers for their efforts during a successful split placement, they’re not only being complimented, but they’re also branding themselves to others as great recruiters and superior Trading Partners.

In other words, doing a great job in a split placement situation gives you credibility within the Network, and that credibility can help you become even more productive as a Preferred Member.  Other recruiters will want to work with you (i.e., send you job orders and candidates).

This week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” includes recruiters who have done just that—branded themselves as great Trading Partners and achieved a level of credibility that will allow them to enjoy even more success making split placements in the future.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Joe was amazing in assisting with this.  He is very skilled at matching candidates and invests much time in the process.  I also appreciated his perspective to the given situations gained over the years in this industry.  This is our second recent split placement together!”

Submitted by Nick Stoia of ASAP Search & Recruiters regarding his split placement with Joe Miglizzi of Perspective

Position Title—PRODUCT MARKETING DIRECTOR
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Stoia and Miglizzi have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“BULLSEYE searching and lots of candidate consoling by my TE partner Tom Edwards!  Lots of communication in all directions, with Tom in the middle.  This is his second hire with this client.  We’re looking forward to many more in the future.  It was nice to see this candidate coached in the direction of accepting the offer from my client.  Thanks for staying on top of this one, Tom!”

Submitted by Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC regarding his split placement with Thomas Edwards of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER TECHNICIAN
Fee Percentage—22.5%

(Editor’s note: this is the third split placement that Copeland and Edwards have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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We swing from one extreme to another in this installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”  That’s because one of the recruiters we’re highlighting this week has made his first split placement as a Preferred Member in Top Echelon Network and another one has made his 307^th split placement!

The funny thing is, the formula for both split placements (and all split placements, really) is still the same.

That formula—as you’ll see by reading the comments below—consists mainly of the Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network.  Those Pillars are Quality, Communication, Trust, and Active Participation.  These recruiters posted their jobs on the Network, they searched the jobs on the Network, and they contacted each other about those jobs.

The result?  Money, money, moneeeeee-y . . . money!

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation), send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!  “Who loves ya, baby?”

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“Thanks for posting the candidate on TE!  Bruce posted the candidate on 6/8, we took the job order on 6/12, and by 6/14 we had the candidate qualified and submitted.  A few interviews later, he received the job offer.  Thanks, Bruce!”

Submitted by Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc. regarding her split placement with Bruce Ramstad of Bruce L. Ramstad

Position Title—MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Snyder and Ramstad have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Mark saw my opening, called me to inquire about it, and within minutes of our conversation, had two strong candidates in front of me.  Thanks, Mark!”

Submitted by Jed Davis of Carroll Technology Services, Inc. regarding his split placement with Mark Ripley of Joseph Michaels International

Position Title—TECHNICAL EXPERT – APPLE/MAC/iOS
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Davis and Ripley have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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