Sometimes the stars align and interesting things happen with our weekly feature regarding split placements made in Top Echelon Network—like this week, for instance!

What interesting thing has happened?  There are three Million Dollar Producers included in this week’s edition of our most recent split placements.  Those three are as follows:

• Daniel Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.
• Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.
• Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.

If there was a Top Echelon Network “Hall of Fame” for Preferred Members, these recruiters would most definitely be enshrined (on the first ballot, no less).  But you don’t have to be a Million Dollar Producer or a “Hall of Fame” candidate to be featured in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  All you have do is make sweet split placements . . . we’ll do the rest.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Daniel Simmons of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Rebecca Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: DAIRY NUTRITIONIST

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Jeffrey Linck of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: PEOPLESOFT HR SECURITY ADMIN

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter.

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Job order recruiter: Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Hani Mussa of KnowPeople, Inc.

Job title: UPS TECHNICIAN

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Sent candidate by a Top Echelon Network recruiter

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters started the year with a “split placement bang” last week, and now they’re keeping the “split placement ball’ rolling this week.  (How many more split placement analogies can we make?  How many weeks are there in a year?)

As always, communication holds the key to making split placements in Top Echelon Network.  Communication is one of the Four Pillars of the Network for good reason (with an emphasis on quality communication).  The more recruiters communicate with one another, the more information they share, the more they learn, the more split placements they make, and the more revenue they generate.

The recruiters below are making split placements, and in some cases, they’re making a lot of them.  This coming year could hold even more splits, and we’d love to include your photo and placement information in a future issue of the newsletter!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Marty Stan of Samaritan Technical Professional

Candidate recruiter: Steve Bret Jensen of Superior Search Consultants

Job title: SENIOR POWER ELECTRONICS DESIGN ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Joe Noto of Regency Search Group

Candidate recruiter: Mike Niedbalski of Integritas Search

Job title: BUSINESS BROKER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: This is a three-way split.

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Job order recruiter: Bob Wylan of R.A. Wylan & Co., Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bruce Widnes of The Recruiting Group, Inc.

Job title: DIRECTOR OF QUALITY CONTROL

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Bruce saw my Top Echelon Network job posting and called me.

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Job order recruiter: Kerry Boehner of KOB Solutions, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: IT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Maria Hemminger

Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Job title: ERP ANALYST/DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Maria Hemminger

Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: QUALITY MANAGER

Fee Percentage—30%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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What’s the best way to start a new year?  Making placements, that’s what, and there are a number of Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters who are starting 2012 with a “split placement bang.”

December was a rather slow month for hiring and also for recruiters, but now that January is here, companies are starting to address their hiring needs more quickly.  That should result in more placements—and specifically, more split placements—for Preferred Member recruiters.

Some of the recruiters below have only been in the Network for a short amount of time, while others have been in the Network for years.  What they all share is the desire to make split placements, and desire precedes everything.  In order to make split placements, you have to want to make split placements and you have to be willing to do what is necessary to make those placements happen.

The recruiters below have met those requirements, which is why they’re already cashing placement checks in January.  We hope that you join their ranks soon, so we can see your face in this regular feature of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: David Wood, CPC of The David Wood Company

Candidate recruiter: Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC

Job title: BIOMEDICAL FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Mark Udulutch of Markent Personnel

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: IT PROJECT MANAGER/ANALYST

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Jim does a great job advertising our jobs through his Hiring Hook website.

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Job order recruiter: Alan Carty of Automationtechies.com

Candidate recruiter: Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc.

Job title: SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Debra L. Stitt, CPC of Quality Source Inc. of Ohio

Candidate recruiter: Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates

Job title: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

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David M. Sgro, CPC

Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: APPLICATION SOFTWARE SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Craig Chrest of Executive Top Gun Search, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Hannah Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Dan Schultz, CSP of Premier Employment Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Tom Townsend of The Tuscon Group

Job title: JAVA PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Twanda DeBorde of CMD and Associates Executive Search

Candidate recruiter: Janeane Weitzel of Weitzel Employment Agency

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—Flat fee

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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Some recruiters are out of the office for the last week of the year . . . and some are cashing placement checks.

Take, for instance, the Preferred Member recruiters below, who recently made split placements through Top Echelon recruiter network. For some of these recruiters, this is the first time that they’ve made a split placement with this particular Trading Partner.  For other recruiters, they’ve made numerous splits with these recruiters.

Whatever the case may be, they’re happy to be Preferred Members and they’re happy to be closing out 2011 with a split placement.  But this more than just a happy ending; it’s also a new beginning.  That’s because 2012 is just around the corner.  That means more opportunities to network and more chances to make split placements.

Don’t let the New Year pass you by.  Make 2012 your best year ever in the Network!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Jim Hipskind of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: BIOMEDICAL FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—15%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

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Job order recruiter: Larry Baker of Computer Careers

Candidate recruiter: Ram Kola of Stewart Cooper & Coon

Job title: MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Jon Harol, CPC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: MED TECH

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Mike Duke of Career Development Partners

Candidate recruiter: Thomas Windsor of Corporate Resources, Inc.

Job title: HR GENERALIST

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook recruiting website design.

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Contract Completed Placements

Job order recruiter: Joseph Papa, CPC/CTS of American Medical Personnel Services, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: LPN

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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There are Preferred Member recruiters in Top Echelon Network who go diligently about their way, networking extensively with other recruiters and making split placements.  Not a ton of splits, but two or three or four a year—which MORE than pays for their monthly Membership fees.

Unfortunately, these recruiters don’t get as much press or publicity as some of the Top Producers do . . . but we’re going to change that this week.  That’s because we’re highlighting Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.  Radzely has been a steady producer in the Network, having made a total of 56 placements during his time as a Preferred Member.

This week, Radzley has TWO split placements in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  To illustrate his versatility as a Trading Partner, he was the job order recruiter for one of the placements and the candidate recruiter for the other placement.  We’d like to congratulate Radzely for those two placements, as well as everybody else who made a split placement this week!

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Tim Hopkins, CPC/CTS of Stephens International Recruiting, Inc.

Job title: BIOMEDICAL FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—15%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

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Job order recruiter: Christine Ramsay of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

Job title: FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Reaching out to a recruiter I have not worked with who works with Field Service Engineers

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Job order recruiter: Janet Miller of Computer Management, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jeffrey Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC

Job title: PROGRAM ANALYST

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Denise Milano Sprung of JA Pharma, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: LEAD NEUROLOGIST

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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One of the indicators of how things are going for recruiters overall is their prevailing fee percentage.  Typically, that fee is 20% to 30% of the candidate’s starting salary.

Well, in this week’s breakdown of split placements within Top Echelon Network, there’s a placement with a fee of 35%.  The Preferred Member recruiters involved placed a Project Electrical Engineer, indicating that there’s a need for such candidates.

What about the other percentages for this week’s split placements?  The majority of them are 25% fees, and the others are 20% fees.  During the depth of the recession, it wasn’t unusual to see fees as low as 10%, but as the economy improves and grade-A candidates become more difficult to find (especially in high-demand industries like Information Technology), fees are beginning to rise.

What’s been YOUR experience?  Do you believe that companies are more willing to pay fees in the 25% to 30% range?  Or are they still attempting to keep fees as low as possible, no matter how badly they need the talent for which they’re looking?  Feel free to comment at the end of this blog post.

In the meantime, below are the split placements in Top Echelon Network for this week:

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Ron Magnusson of Norseman Recruiting Services

Candidate recruiter: David Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati

Job title: PROJECT ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—35%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Jim Smiarowski of Atlantic Systems Group

Candidate recruiter: Judy Kaplan of Prof’l Recruiting Consultants

Job title: SAP FUNCTION ANALYST

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Jan Burke of MetalJobs Network

Candidate recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICIAN

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through Steve Kohn’s Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Larry Baker of Computer Careers

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Eric V. Stearley, CPC of Eric V. Stearley, CPC & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Ed Chambers of Search Team One

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Lisa DeBenedittis of Elite Recruiting Services, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search

Candidate recruiter: Melinda O’Neil of Enterprise Search Associates

Job title: .NET DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Stacy Pursell of The Pursell Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Rebecca Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: BIOSECURITY TECHNICAL SERVICES VETERINARIAN

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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Okay, I know . . . we’ve been singing the same song for so long that maybe it’s overkill.  But it’s not overkill for those Preferred Member recruiters who continue to make split placements with their Trading Partners (like the ones below, for instance).

It doesn’t matter HOW you communicate with them:

• Call them.
• Email them.
• Text them.
• Chat them.
• Visit them in person.
• Send them a singing telegram.

How you communicate isn’t nearly as important as making the decision to communicate.  Communicate about your hot job orders and candidates.  Those recruiters who make the most split placements in Top Echelon Network communicate with their Trading Partners nearly every day.

They’ve made the commitment to do it . . . and now they’re making the money to prove it.  You can, too.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Steve Moore of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Matt Scheihing of J. Miles Personnel Services

Job title: QA-SANITATION MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Candidate recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Joe Miglizzi of Perspective

Job title: JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: David Kersey of Kersey & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Tim Hughes of Hughes & Associates

Job title: CHEMICAL PLANT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: JD EDWARDS BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Wendy Johnson of Professionals Incorporated

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: QA/TESTER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Rick Krumel of SearchWish, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Cindy Andrew Cordell of Corporate Resources, LLC

Job title: COMMODITY BUYER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

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Below are this week’s split placements in Top Echelon Network.

As you can see, all of them have the same “action causing placement.”  That action is “Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter.”

It goes without saying that communication—one of The Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network—holds the key to making split placements.  However, “regular communication” is a rather general phrase . . . so that’s why we’re striving to unravel its mystery with new features like “Split Placement Tales from the Trenches.”

In the meantime, initiating any form of quality communication will help build a productive Trading Partner relationship, one that can result in more trust and more split placements.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: AUDIT SENIOR

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: John Zurek of Zurek Professional Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Larry Goldberg of Lawrence Personnel

Job title: LAB SUPERVISOR

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Bob Moore of Computer Recruiters, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: SAP MANAGER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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David M. Sgro, CPC

Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: LEARNING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT LEADER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Juli Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: EPIC BRIDGES CONSULTANT

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted, if you so choose.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those placements.

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Top Echelon Network’s completed split placements.  Below is a partial list of the recent split placements made by Preferred Member recruiters.  I say “partial list” because some recruiters asked that their information not be disclosed in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, and we certainly don’t have a problem honoring that request.

As I mentioned in last week’s issue of The Pinnacle, we’re going to dig deeper into our split placements and find out exactly how they’re being made (who contacted who, what information was exchanged, etc.).  In fact, I’ve contacted the recruiters listed below and have started talking with them about those very details, which will be published in a future issue.

In the meantime, though, we’d like for you to share YOUR split placement story with the rest of the Network.  If you’ve made a split placement with another Preferred Member recruiter and you’d like to tell your story, email the details to marketing@TopEchelon.com, and we’ll make sure that story is told.  We want everybody to know WHO’S making split placements, WHERE they’re making them, WHY they’re making them, and HOW they’re making them . . . and that includes you.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: John Wharton of The Garret Group

Candidate recruiter: Ray Fehrenbach, CPC of Southern Recruiters

Job title: DISTRIBUTION OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Larry Baker of Computer Careers

Candidate recruiter: James Compton of Compton & Associates

Job title: OUTDOOR LIGHTING DESIGN ENGINEER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Susan Ploeger of Ploeger Recruiting Services

Candidate recruiter: Jim Brown of Galileo Search, LLC

Job title: QUALITY RESOURCES DIRECTOR

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: SOFTWARE TRAINING/COURSE DEVELOPER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Remember, you can opt out of having your placement highlighted, if you so choose.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those placements.

To find out how YOU can become a Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network, click here.

Because we’re always striving to improve and evolve, that’s exactly what we’re doing with this feature in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  Many of you have made it clear that you like seeing the details of recent split placements in the newsletter, and that’s why we include them.

However, we believe that certain details of the placement—like the industry in which it was made and the position title involved—represent just the tip of the iceberg.  We want to dig deeper into HOW you’re making these split placements.  And WHY is that?  So that other Network recruiters can build upon your success, put into practice the techniques they see described here, and enjoy similar success themselves.

In short, we want more Preferred Member recruiters making more split placements, and one of the best ways to do that is to communicate exactly how other recruiters have made split placements in the past.  For example, “Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member” is the number-one reason listed by recruiters for why split placements occur.  The problem is this: that description is very general.  We’re going to drill down into that reason and dig up the specifics, such as who did what and when they did it.

Will we be able to do that with all of the split fee recruiting network placements that occur in Top Echelon Network?  Probably not, but if you’ve made a split placement in the Network recently, don’t be surprised if I give you a call and ask a bunch of questions.

Because inquiring, split-minded recruiters want to know.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Doug Meeker of Career Search Associates

Candidate recruiter: Bob Allen of The ManCom Team, Inc.

Job title: PLANT MANAGER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Michele Hafez of KV Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Susan Christian of PRI Business Services, Inc.

Job title: SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST

Action causing placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon Network’s split databases.

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Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR DEVELOPER

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member

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Job order recruiter: Amy Recker of Ridgeway Professionals, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Eric Berg of JN Adams & Associates, Inc.

Job title: LEAN MANAGER

Action causing placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon Network’s split databases.

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Job order recruiter: Deanna Metcalf of TeamLink Global

Candidate recruiter: Nick Stoia of ASAP Search & Recruiters

Job title: REFRIGERATION MAINTENANCE TECH

Action causing placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Stacy Pursell of The Pursell Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Scott Connell of the Connell Group, LLC

Job title: DIRECTOR OF SUPPLY

Action causing placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon Network’s split databases.

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Remember, you can opt out of having your placement highlighted, if you so choose.  All you have to do is send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those placements.

To find out how YOU can become a Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network, click here.