Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group may be the “Recruiter of the Month” for April.  He may be the Top Producing Recruiter right now in Top Echelon Network.  He may have been the Top Producing Recruiter for the 2011 calendar year.

But this is a new year, and the last thing you want to do is forget about THIS guy.  THIS guy is Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Sean is currently #2 in the Network in terms of cash-in, and during his long tenure as a Preferred Member, he’s won a boatload of awards (the quantity wasn’t tested with an actual boat, but you understand), including the coveted Top Producing Recruiter award.

This week’s listing of Top Echelon Network split placements include two splits involving Sean, and with Information Technology as hot as it is right now, you can expect many more from Sean.

You can also rest assured that he’ll give Trey a run for his money before 2012 is over.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Larry Ploscowe of EXEK Recruiters, Ltd.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Millman of AutoPro Technical Recruiting

Job title: GENERAL MANAGER

Fee Percentage—33%

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

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Job order recruiter: Tom Heeney of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Joe Pelayo of Joseph Michaels International

Job title: STAFF OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN

Fee Percentage—Flat

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

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Job order recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.

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

Job title: SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Wendy Johnson of Professionals Incorporated

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

Job title: JAVA P/A

Fee Percentage—22.5%

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

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Job order recruiter: Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Terry Rhodes of newcareers

Job title: SENIOR MECHANICAL DESIGN EINGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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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.

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.

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Actually, it’s not that much of a surprise that Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group is the “Recruiter of the Month.”  After all, he’s won that award more often than not over the course of the past 12 to 18 months.

However, this time the margin of victory was far smaller for Trey, who had to edge out two other recruiters for the top honor.  Remember, the number of split placements that a Preferred Member recruiter makes is just one of the determining factors.

The second factor is the amount of cash-in that those split placements produce.  It just so happens that Trey’s cash-in total for the month is what pushed him over the top and garnered him yet another recognition award.

In addition, Trey currently sits atop the Network as the Top Producing Recruiter, with a sizeable lead on the rest of the Top 10.

We recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in two categories—“Recruiter of the Month” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month.”

Remember, 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

Trey was one of three Preferred Member recruiters to make three split placements during the month of April.  However, he wins the award based upon his cash-in total for those three placements.

The other recruiters who made three split placements were Greg Downs of Downs Associates and Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC and Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC

The position for this placement was a Global Alliance Program Director.  Steve was the job order recruiter, and Jeff was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this placement was listed as “Tenacious passive sourcing and epic moral support by Jeff Gilbert, the “Kingfish” of recruiting!”

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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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At Top Echelon Network, we’re always looking for a textbook example of a split placement—and we have not one, but two in this week’s installment of “’Comments’ and Compliments”!

And to top it all off, the recruiters involved made their first split placement with one another.  In fact, the first pair of recruiters listed below have been Preferred Members of the Network for a combined 35 years.

Like they say, there’s a first time for everything . . . although we still have absolutely no idea who “they” are.  (Whoever they are, they certainly seem to have a lot to say.)

Yes, it’s May.  Yes, school is almost out for millions of students.  But when it comes to split placements, class is always in session.

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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/“Bill Millman called me after I posted the job on TE on January 11.  He asked for extensive details on the job and set out to direct-recruit some appropriate applicants, which he did almost immediately.  He came up with at least four viable applicants, two of which were the only applicants to make it to the face-to-face interview stage and both received offers from my client.  The first applicant turned down the offer, but the second accepted.  Both candidates were excellent.  Bob was a big help!”

Submitted by Larry Ploscowe of EXEK Recruiters, Ltd. regarding his split placement with Bob Millman of AutoPro Technical Recruiting

Position Title—GENERAL MANAGER
Fee Percentage—33%

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

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“Jim called, presented a candidate, and then sent me a resume.  I presented one candidate to the client, and we hit the bullseye.  The candidate was presented for a Production Manager position during the onsite interview, but the client had another position in the back of their mind.  When they saw the candidate, they switched gears and were interviewing him for a future need.  They approved the new position and made our candidate an offer.  Jim, thanks for sending an outstanding candidate!”

Submitted by Bob Wylan of R.A. Wylan & Co., Inc. regarding his split placement with Jim Crumpley of Jim Crumpley of Jim Crumpley & Associates

Position Title—SENIOR MANAGER OF PRODUCT PLANNING
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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For years, The Cornerstone, the newsletter of Top Echelon contract staffing solutions, was sent to the Preferred Members of Top Echelon Network.  The Cornerstone was eventually discontinued in favor of another newsletter, Contracting Corner, which is now published once a quarter.

However, we still run contracting statistics in select issues of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  These statistics include Non-Split Contract Placements, Split Contract Placements, and Non-Recruited Placements, among others.

Below are the most recent statistics regarding contract placements made by Preferred Member recruiters, courtesy of Top Echelon Contracting, the recruiter’s back-office solution.

Many of the Top Producers in Top Echelon Network have added contract staffing to their business model and have also taken advantage of the contract placement services provided by Top Echelon Contracting.

For more information about the benefits of contract staffing and the services that Top Echelon Contracting provides, call (888) 627-3678, Ext. 2.

All networking between Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters does NOT take place over the phone.  In fact, some of the most effective networking does not.

Members often network at events like the upcoming 2012 Fall Conference and 2013 National Convention . . . yes, that’s a hint . . . we want you to register for both . . . we’re shameless.

Networking can also occur on the golf course, and that was the case for two of the Preferred Member recruiters included in this week’s installment of Completed Split Placements.  Those two recruiters are Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc. and Jim Folger of ONESource Technical, Inc.

But wait—there’s more!  (Of course there’s more.)

We also have a Preferred Member recruiter who’s made two split placements this week, each one with a different Trading Partner.  That recruiter is Greg Downs of Downs Associates, who is quietly productive in Top Echelon Network, making a total of seven split placements since January of 2011.

So remember, it doesn’t matter where you network (like for instance, the 2012 Fall Conference), it’s just important to network . . . because split placements will more than likely follow.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Folger of ONESource Technical, Inc.

Job title: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: “Regular golf meetings with Jim to discuss golf and recruiting. I stink at golf, so I might as well make money.”

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Job order recruiter: Hank Kappel of H. Kappel Recruiting

Candidate recruiter: Greg Downs of Downs Associates

Job title: TEAM SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Bob Allen of The ManCom Team, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Greg Downs of Downs Associates

Job title: ENVIRONMENTAL/HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Gene McQueen of the Cameron Craigh Group

Job title: MANUFACTURING MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Jor order recruiter: Phil Wallner of Provident Link, Ltd.

Candidate recruiter: Ed Nathan of Systems Search

Job title: SENIOR .NET DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Mike Helffrich of Helffrich International

Job title: PLANT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—30%

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

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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.

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.

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“It’s a small world after all . . . it’s a small world after all . . . it’s a small world after all . . . it’s a small, small world.”

Okay, since that song will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day, we can proceed.

It IS a small world, especially if you’re a recruiter.  After all, you interact with people all the time, every day, and this installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” illustrates that perfectly.

It includes two Preferred Member recruiters who not only made a split placement together recently, but who also have a connection with another Preferred Member in Top Echelon Network . . . which, of course, makes it a small, small world.

The recruiters in question are Debra Stitt, CPC of Quality Source, Inc. of Ohio and Kim Kirby of Balanced Career Solutions, Inc.  The other recruiter whose thread runs through the entire story: David J. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Stitt’s comments regarding the split placement are below, followed by Kirby’s.  If you’d like to compliment a Trading Partner in a more extensive manner regarding a split placement, email your comments and information to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

“It’s a small world after all . . .”

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“Making this split with Kim was AWESOME.  She actually worked the order with me and presented several very viable candidates, many of whom made it at least to the phone screen stage.  As it turns out, Kim and I have something in common.  Dave Sgro, Sr. trained me in the biz, and Kim worked for him after I had left the firm.  Small world!  No wonder this one ‘fit like a glove.'”

Position Title—Human Resource Generalist
Fee Percentage—25%

Submitted by Debra Stitt, CPC of Quality Source, Inc. of Ohio regarding her split placement with Kim Kirby of Balanced Career Solutions, Inc.

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“I enjoyed working with Debra on this placement.  She knew her client well and was very clear on the types of candidates she was looking for and provided timely feedback so that I knew if I was on the right track.  Thanks, Debra!”

Position Title—Human Resource Generalist
Fee Percentage—25%

Submitted by Kim Kirby of Balanced Career Solutions, Inc. regarding her split placement with Debra Stitt, CPC of Quality Source, Inc. of Ohio

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They say it takes a village to raise a child.  That may be true, but that’s only relevant insofar as sometimes it takes two recruiters to fill a job order.  (The connection?  There really is none.  But stay with me.)

Take, for example, the Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters being highlighted in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”  They worked together to fill a job order and make a placement, and as a result, they split a placement fee.

Here’s the kicker: without the efforts of BOTH recruiters during the placement process, the deal may never have happened.  The position would have stayed open, and if it was filled, it might possibly have been filled with some other candidate from some other recruiter.

Now that would have been a travesty.  That’s why it’s easy to see that two heads + one job order = placement success.

It’s been proven time and time again in the Network, and it will be proven again in the future.  Enlisting the expertise, experience, and resources of another recruiter in your niche will greatly increase your chances of filling more of your clients’ job orders—and of course, making more placements.

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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“Glenn delivered an exceptional candidate in his area of specialty to [me] for this role.  I especially appreciated his insights into the placement process and specific situations that helped it move along smoothly.  Two heads are better than one!”

Submitted by Nick Stoia, CPC of ASAP Search and Recruiters regarding his split placement with Glenn Richards of Global Talent Resources Corp.

Position Title—SENIOR ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—22.5%

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

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“Wow, this is my third placement with Sean in the last year.  I can’t say enough about Sean’s knack for finding the best candidate for our clients and finding them fast, too.  Thanks again, Sean!”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

Position Title—SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR
Fee Percentage—20.0%

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

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Ask and ye shall receive.  Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters Maria Hemminger and Joanna Spaun of MJ Recruiters, LLC commented that Trading Partner Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group owed her chocolate due to the fact that their firm has placed so many of his candidates.

As you can see by the photo above, Cameron came through!  And he left no doubt as to how much he appreciates Hemminger and Spaun’s efforts, specifically the fact that the two firms have now made five split placements in the Network, three so far this year.

If you’ve thanked a Trading Partner in a unique way (or have been the one being thanked), we want to know about it.  Send your information—and accompanying photo, if possible—to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

It’s a documented fact that blog readers don’t like blog posts that are too long, which makes them scroll down the page a lot in order to read the whole post.

But when it comes to split placements, we’re willing to bet that you won’t mind as much.

After all, there are few things more interesting in knowing which top recruiters are making placements, what industries they’re making placements in, and what kind of positions they’re filling.

That’s exactly what we have this week—a long blog post filled with recent split placements made by Preferred Member recruiters in the Network, and we’re more than happy to publish them.

That’s right . . . bring on the split placements!

In fact, we hope this is just the beginning.  We hope that we’ll be publishing TWICE as many split placements as this in the near future.

Actually, we hope you all get carpal tunnel syndrome because of all the scrolling you’ll be doing while looking at the split placements each week.  (Well, maybe not.  But then again . . .)

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Joe Miglizzi of Perspective

Job title: ABAP DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Dan Simmons of Continental Search and Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Thomas Edwards of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: EQUINE NUTRITION SALES REP

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Alan Carty of Automationtechies.com

Candidate recruiter: Jim Folger of ONESource Technical, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Client recruiter: Jeffrey Linck of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Sean Napoles of Career Brokers, Inc.

Job title: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER–.NET

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

Candidate recruiter: Ray Fehrenbach, CPC of Southern Recruiters

Job title: PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS MANAGER

Fee Percentage—22.5%

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

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Job order recruiter:  Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search

Candidate recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Job title: MANAGING CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search

Candidate recruiter: Kaleb Dumot of Emerald Resource Group

Job title: SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Bill Quackenbush, CPC/CTS of QCI Technical Staffing

Job title: GENERAL ACCOUNTANT

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter:
Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook web design for recruitment agencies.

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Job order recruiter: Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Travis Jones of Career Development Partners

Job title: ACCOUNT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—30%

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

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Job order recruiter: Carol Brinkman of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions

Job title: SAP BW CONTRACT CONSULTANT

Recruiter’s Fee Per Hour—$10.50

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

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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.

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.

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Once you make a split placement with another Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network, you never know when you’ll make your next one with them.

It could be the following week . . . or the following month . . . or the following year.

Or it could be years later, like two of the recruiters in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

The bottom line is this: once you make a split placement with another Preferred Member recruiter, you’ve built a foundation for working together that lasts a long time.

No matter how much time passes or how many placements you make in the meantime, you can always strike gold with that recruiter again.

That’s why the investment that many recruiters have made in Top Echelon’s recruiting network (and in their Trading Partners) continues to pay dividends, sometimes in ways that they don’t expect—but that they always enjoy.

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 my second split with Ray.  The other one was many years ago when I was new to Top Echelon.  Ray and his team are such a professional group.  It was good to have this happen again.”

Submitted by Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting regarding her split placement Ray Fehrenbach, CPC of Southern Recruiters

Position Title—PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS MANAGER
Fee Percentage—22.5%

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

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“Bryan is a great candidate, and we are genuinely grateful to the Cameron Craig Group for sending him our way.  Let’s do many more splits in 2012!.”

Submitted by Jim Brown of Galileo Search, LLC regarding his split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—CORPORATE ACCREDITATION OFFICER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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