This is more of a reminder blog post than anything else, because . . . well, there are some things I want to remind you about.

First and foremost are our holiday hours.  The Top Echelon Network offices will be closed on Friday, December 24 (this Friday), and Friday, December 31 (next Friday) in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.  The offices will re-open for business as usual at 8 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, on Monday, December 27, and Monday, January 3.

Okay, now that’s out of the way, on to “The Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010.”

As I mentioned last week, the deadline for submitting your craziest recruiting story of 2010 has been pushed back, to next Wednesday, December 29, as a matter of fact.  Also, as I’ve mentioned in the past, there are three ways you can submit your “Craziest Recruiting Story”:

• You can email your story to marketing@TopEchelon.com.
• You can post the story by including it in the comments section at the end of this blog post.
• You can give me a call at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 125 and relay your story to me.

Once again, the deadline for submitting your “Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010” is Wednesday, December 29.  We’ll announce the winner during the first part of January in the Recruiter Training Blog and also on “Top Echelon TV.”

Recruiters have already submitted their stories to us, and they’ve been pretty outrageous.  So think back to everything that’s happened during the past year and submit your “Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010.”

Consider yourself reminded.

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MDeutsch@TopEchelon.com

Last week, I announced our contest for “The Top Echelon Network Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010,” and now I have some additional news regarding that contest: we’ve moved back the deadline for submitting entries!

Originally, the deadline was next Wednesday, December 22.  However, since we won’t be announcing the winner until after the beginning of the new year, we decided that we could provide some additional time for recruiters to submit their craziest story of 2010.

That means the new deadline is two weeks from today—Wednesday, December 29.  And remember the rules for the contest (and really, there aren’t that many rules).  It could be a story about clients.  It could be a story about candidates.  It could be a story about another recruiter.  It doesn’t matter.  It just has to be something wild, outrageous, and if possible, unbelievable.

Actually, the more unbelievable, the better (as long as it’s true . . . don’t be a fibber).  And since we’re talking about the world of recruiting, I’m sure that plenty of unbelievable stories have occurred during the past year.

There are three ways you can submit your “Craziest Recruiting Story”:

• You can email your story to marketing@TopEchelon.com.
• You can post the story by including it in the comments section at the end of this blog.
• You can give me a call at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 125 and relay your story to me.

Once again, the deadline for submitting your “Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010” is Wednesday, December 29.  We’ll announce the winner during the first part of January in the Recruiter Training Blog and also on “Top Echelon TV.”

We’ve already had recruiters submit their stories, not just for 2010, but from other years, as well.  And you know what?  That’s a-okay.  If you’d like to submit stories that didn’t happen this year, we’ll be happy to accept them and publish them in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog at some point in the future.  After all, we’re not unreasonable.

So . . . what crazy things have happened to you this past year?  Does your story involve a candidate, a client, or another recruiter—or all three?  Did it cause you to lose a placement?  Did it cause you to lose hair?  Or consider retirement?  Move to Florida and play shuffleboard?  What?  Spill the beans.

Submit your story . . . and it might just be “The Top Echelon Network Craziest Recruiting Story of 2010.”

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ANY time is a crazy time to be a recruiter.  Let’s face it . . . with people on both ends of the sale, ridiculous things can and do happen.  Not only that, but 2010 could qualify as a unique year.  With a slow recovery, desperate candidates, and quirky clients, the year was rife with “craziness potential.”

And of course, we’d like to take advantage of it.

Well, not just take advantage of it, but also bring some levity to 2010 at the end of the year.  After all, if we can’t laugh at ourselves, what can we laugh at?  (Well, technically, we’re laughing at you and you’re laughing at yourself, but let’s not be technical.)

With all of that in mind, we’d like you to submit your craziest recruiting story of 2010.  It could be a story about clients.  It could be a story about candidates.  It could be a story about another recruiter.  It doesn’t matter.  It just has to be something wild, outrageous, and if possible, unbelievable.  Because after all, no matter how unbelievable it might be, if it happened in the world of recruiting, it’s much more plausible.

The deadline for submitting your craziest recruiting story of the year is Wednesday, December 22—two weeks from today.  After collecting the stories submitted to us by Preferred Members, Top Echelon Network officials will select a winner, “The Top Echelon Network Craziest Recruiting Story of the Year,” and announce the winner in both The Pinnacle Blog and also on “Top Echelon TV.”

Will there be a prize given to the recruiter who provides the craziest story?  Perhaps.  (We have to include some element of suspense, don’t we?)  Regardless, you can email your crazy story to marketing@TopEchelon.com.  And I know what you’re going to ask: can you submit more than one story?  Absolutely.  But of course, in the end, when all is said and done, only one story is going to win.

So go back through the year and think about all the crazy stuff that’s happened.  I’m sure there’s plenty.  Pick out your best story and send it to us.

It could be “Top Echelon Network’s Craziest Recruiting Story of the Year.”

MDeutsch@TopEchelon.com
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