Since the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby occurred this past Saturday, it’s only fitting that the April race for Top Echelon Network’s Recruiter of the Month honors came down to the wire.

And the winning recruiter is . . . Greg Downs of Downs Associates by a nose!

It also makes sense that the Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs.  Get it?  Churchill DOWNS.  Never mind.

Is there any way to weave current events into this blog post even more?  Of course!  This past Saturday was also May 4.  How is that significant?  Because it was “Star Wars Day.”

May the fourth be with you!

April was certainly with Greg Downs, as well as with the many other Network recruiters who nearly caught him at the finish line.

At Top Echelon Network, we recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—Recruiter of the Month, Recruiter of the Quarter, Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month, and Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter.

For more information about the awards listed below, login to the Members’ Area and view the profiles and placement details of the recruiters who won them.

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RECRUITER OF THE MONTH:

Greg Downs of Downs Associates

Downs was one of many recruiters who made two split placements in the Network during the month of April.  However, his overall cash-in total for those two placements was larger than anybody else’s total, earning him first place.

Other Preferred Member recruiters who made two split placements during the month of April included Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions; Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.; Deb North of Deb North Consulting, LLC; John Peterson of Sun Recruiting, Inc., and Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.

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LARGEST SPLIT PLACEMENT FEE OF THE MONTH:

Kirby Butler, CPC of The Butlers Co. Insurance Recruiters and Mike McDonough of General Search and Recruitment

The position for this placement was Insurance/VP Commercial Lines.  Butler was the job order recruiter, and McDonough was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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Our criteria for these production awards:

Top Echelon Network determines the monthly and quarterly award winners based upon two things, which are listed below in order of importance:

1.) The number of split placements made
2.) The amount of cash-in dollars earned as a result of those split placements

This explains why, although Downs was tied with four other recruiters with two split placements apiece during the month of April, he won the award based upon his cash-in total for his two placements.

The success that Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. has enjoyed recently in Top Echelon Network has been well chronicled.

But let’s chronicle it again!

Click here to read great stories about three split placements that Stuck made.

Click here to read about Stuck’s three split placements with Trading Partner Mario Linale.

Click here to read what Linale has to say about his Trading Partner relationship with Stuck.

So it probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Michael Stuck is the Recruiter of the Month for March in Top Echelon Network!  (I know it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me.)

Not only is Stuck the Recruiter of the Month, but he’s also part of the other award for March, the Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month Award.

Top Echelon Network typically recognizes recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—“Recruiter of the Month,” “Recruiter of the Quarter,” “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month,” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter.”

For more information about these awards, please login to the Members’ Area and view the profiles and placement details of the recruiters who won them.

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Recruiter of the Month
Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.

Stuck was one of three recruiters who made three split placements in the Network during the month of February.  However, his overall cash-in total for those three placements was larger than anybody else’s total, earning him first place.

Other Preferred Member recruiters who made three placements during the month were Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc. and Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group.

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Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. and Steve Strickland of American Career Search, Inc.

The position for this placement was a Chief Executive Officer.  Stuck was the job order recruiter, and Strickland was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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The Network’s criteria for these awards:

Top Echelon Network determines the monthly and quarterly award winners based upon two things, which are listed below in order of importance:

1.) The number of split placements made
2.) The amount of cash-in dollars earned as a result of those split placements

This explains why, although Stuck was tied with two other recruiters with three placements apiece during the month of March, he won the award based upon his cash-in total for his three placements.

Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group “disappeared” for a while . . . but now he’s back.

More often than not, Cameron won The Recruiter of the Month Award last year.  Recently, though, other Preferred Members have laid claim to that honor.  Until now, that is.  That’s because Cameron is the Recruiter of the Month for February of 2013.

Not only that, but Cameron was also part of the Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month.  That placement (and its corresponding fee) was largely responsible for pushing Cameron to the top of the Network heap in February.

Cameron, who was the Recruiter of the Year in the Network in 2012, is off to another fast start in 2013.  Can he win that award for the third straight year?  Stay tuned to find out!

As always, we recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—“Recruiter of the Month,” “Recruiter of the Quarter,” “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month,” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter.”

For more information about the placements and cash-in totals associated with these awards, please login to the Members’ Area and view the profiles and placement details of the recruiters involved.

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Recruiter of the Month
Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Cameron was one of a handful of recruiters who made two split placements in the Network during the month of February.  However, his overall cash-in total for those two placements was larger than anybody else’s total, earning him first place.

Other Preferred Member recruiters who made two placements during the month were Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC; David Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.; Jeff Ploeger of Ploeger Recruiting Services; and Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates.

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Largest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Pamela Ratz Deville, CPC of Managed Medicaid Servicves and Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

The position for this placement was a VP of Finance.  Ratz DeVille was the job order recruiter, and Cameron was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook website.”

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Our criteria for these awards:

Top Echelon Network is a split placement network.  As such, we place an emphasis on split placements, and that emphasis constitutes a large part of our criteria for these awards.  We determine the monthly and quarterly award winners based upon two things, which are listed below in order of importance:

1.) The number of split placements made
2.) The amount of cash-in dollars earned as a result of those split placements

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