Hiring Hook websites from Top Echelon do a LOT for recruiters, but the most important thing they do is help recruiters make more placements—and there’s plenty of evidence to support that in this week’s Completed Placements post.

In fact, more than half of the placements highlighted in this blog post were the direct result of a Hiring Hook website, specifically the Job Board feature of Hiring Hook.  The Job Board feature allows you to post your jobs to your website for qualified candidates to see, and also offers the opportunity for them to apply for those jobs.

However, as a Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network, a Hiring Hook website will also afford you the chance to post other Member’s jobs on your site, which will lead to more split placements.  It certainly has for some of the recruiters below.  Click here for more information about Hiring Hook, or give us a call at (330) 455-1433.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Cindy Sommer of SearchStars, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT – HIGH-RISK OB

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: Daniel Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Rebecca Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: DAIRY NUTRITION SPECIALIST

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Candidate recruiter: Bill Quackenbush of QCI Technical Staffing

Candidate recruiter: Mario Fidanzi of MedTeam Staffing, Inc.

Job title: MANUFACTURING 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: Alan Daum of Alan N. Daum & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Michelle Johnson of Automationtechies.com

Job title: PROCESS AUTOMATION ENGINEERS

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Larry Barlow of Tax Advantage Personnel, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

Job title: INTERNATIONAL TAX MANAGER

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: Dan Funke of Johnson Resource Group, LLC

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

Job title: PRODUCTION MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

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

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Completed Contract Placements

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

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PRODUCTION MANAGER

Candidate $ Per Hour—$40.00

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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Don’t get us wrong—there’s always good stuff in our “‘Comments’ and Compliments” feature . . . but this week, we’re taking things to a whole new level.  How is that?  Well, we’re glad you asked.  Consider the following:

• The Trading Partners involved in this week’s feature have now made multiple split placements with one another this year.
• One Preferred Member recruiting firm—Front Line Solutions, LLC—is represented in both split placements.
• One of the split placements is a contract split.  In fact, it’s the second contract split placement between the two recruiters, and they have plans to make even more in the future (as you can see by the comments below).

See how much placement goodness we’ve stuffed into this week’s feature?  That’s because we want YOU to make multiple split placements with a Trading Partner, we want YOU to consider making contract staffing part of your business model, and we want YOU to make more money.  That’s just how we roll.

If you’d like to compliment your Trading Partner for a recent split placement (or placements), send your comments to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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“Thanks, Pete!  That makes two so far this year!”

Submitted by Juli Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC regarding her split placement with Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—EPIC BRIDGES CONSULTANT
Fee Percentage—20%

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“Two down, four more to go!”

Submitted by Ralph Dahm of IT Audit Search regarding his contract split placement with Rich Harrold of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—PHP DEVELOPER
Recruiter Hourly Rate—$7.83

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Remember, if you have compliments for a Trading Partner regarding a split placement, please email them to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

Where are the split placements being made in Top Echelon Network?  A glance at this week’s splits holds the answer to that question.

As you can see, the industries are wide ranging.  Represented this week are the following areas:

• Sales
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Animal Science/Animal Nutrition

Of course, you can view the Offers Accepted in the Members’ Area of the Top Echelon Network website.  Sure, those aren’t Completed Placements yet and money hasn’t changed hands, but they’ll still give you an idea of the industries that are experiencing the most activity in Top Echelon Network.

As you can see, included in the information below is the position title associated with each split placement, which provides an even better clue as to where the placements are being made.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Krista Bastianelli of Career/Contract Placement Associates

Candidate recruiter: Paul Van of Career/Contract Placement Associates

Job title: SENIOR ASSOCIATE

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

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Job order recruiter: Doug Boyce of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Joan Peterson King of Newman-Johnson-King, Inc. and A.H. Justice Search Consultants

Job title: FINANCIAL ANALYST

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Job title: SENIOR AUDIT

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: Bruce Widnes of The Recruiting Group, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Stephanie Jakubik of Bertram & Associates, Inc.

Job title: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Rebecca Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: POULTRY SALES REP

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

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Job order recruiter: Bernie Nutter, CPC of Hire Horizons

Candidate recruiter: Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc.

Job title: REGIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER

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, 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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Okay, sure . . . a free meal at Denny’s is sometimes nice on your birthday.  But you’re a recruiter.  You don’t want to celebrate that way.  You want to celebrate with a placement—just like Preferred Member recruiter Frank Gregg of Gregg & Associates did recently.

Gregg’s birthday was on Tuesday, October 25, one day after he submitted a Completed Placement Form to Top Echelon Network for a split placement that he made with fellow Preferred Member recruiter Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates.  So, since it was Gregg’s birthday on Tuesday, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight their split placement, not to mention the compliments they paid one another regarding it.  Happy birthday, Gregg!  And happy placement, too!

If YOU have plenty to say about a Trading Partner regarding a split placement (even if it’s not their birthday), email your comments and information to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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“I would have never located a suitable candidate without Ron Sunshine’s help.  Great job, Ron!”

Position Title—LOGISTIC MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

Submitted by Frank Gregg of Gregg & Associates regarding his split placement with Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

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“I very much enjoy working with Frank and look forward to more placements.  In this instance, the candidate was turned down after the first interview, and it was through Frank’s hard and professionalism that he got the client to take a second look.  As they say . . . the rest is history.  Great job, Frank!”

Position Title—LOGISTIC MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

Submitted by Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates regarding his split placement with Frank Gregg of Gregg & Associates

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Send Us Your Special ‘Comments’

Remember, if you’d like to highlight a Trading Partner in a special or unique way, email your comments and information to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

Recruiters are making placements with their Hiring Hook websites!  We know this because we track the placements that are made through these sites, and we have some more this week in our list of Completed Placements.

Many recruiters use Hiring Hook websites from Top Echelon in order to leverage their time and resources more effectively.  The Job Board component of a Hiring Hook website allows you to post your jobs to your site and also to social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

If you’d like to know more about Hiring Hook websites, click here.  You can also give us a call at (330) 455-1433.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Completed Placements—Direct:

Job order recruiter: Roger Malatesta of Prof’l Recruiting Consultants

Candidate recruiter: Paul E. Richards of Executive Directions & Pinnacle International

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER OF RUBBER PRODUCTS

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

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Job order recruiter: Robert Gabor of The Gabor Group

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

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

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Candidate recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Greg Downs of Downs Associates

Job title: SAFETY MANAGER

Action causing 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: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

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

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Job order recruiter: Patrick Walsh of the PSW Group

Candidate recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Job title: MANAGER OF SAFETY

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

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Job order recruiter: Pamela Ratz Deville, CPC of Health Career Professional, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SENIOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

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

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Completed Placements—Contract:

Job order recruiter: Bill Quackenbush of QCI Technical Staffing

Candidate recruiter: Jennifer Fahlsing of Aldis Associates

Job title: AS400 COBOL PROGRAMMER

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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Making split placements is all about teamwork between two recruiting firms . . . and teamwork is also the central theme of this installment of “Comments and Compliments.”  That’s because the recruiters involved in this week’s highlighted placements (and their firms) made a concerted effort to work together in order to bring the deal together.

Not that other recruiters don’t work together on their splits, but these recruiters felt compelled to praise each other regarding the split placements they’ve made.  That, of course, is what we want ALL recruiters in Top Echelon Network to do—use teamwork to make split placements and then praise one another about them.  That could make for a lot of blog posts, but hey, we’ll take one for the team.

If you’d like to compliment your Trading Partner for a recent split fee recruiting placement (or placements), send your comments to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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“Great candidate!  Stacie Miebach [in Steve’s office] delivered the perfect candidate for the role.  I look forward to the next split.”

Submitted by Patrick Walsh of the PSW Group regarding his split placement with Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Position Title—MANAGER OF SAFETY
Fee Percentage—25%

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“Russ was a great asset in working with his very ‘risk aversed’ candidate.  Teamwork and patience paid off in the end.  Hopefully, we will share many more placements in the future with this client!”

Submitted by Bernie Nutter, CPC of Hire Horizons regarding his split placement with Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc.

Position Title—REGIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER
Fee Percentage—30%

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Remember, if you have compliments for a Trading Partner regarding a split placement, please email them to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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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As I’ve mentioned previously in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we’re going to be exploring split placements made in the Network more extensively.  The result is a new series of blog posts—“Split Placement Tales from the Trenches.”

In this series, we’ll get the “story behind the story” when it comes to split placements . . . what happened, how it happened, when it happened, etc., straight from the recruiters who made the split.

So let’s get down to it.  This week’s split placement information is listed below, followed by the placement’s tale, relayed by one of the recruiters involved.

The interesting part of this “Tale” is that it represents one of two split placements made by these recruiters recently.  One (this one) was a contract split placement, and the other was a direct-hire split.

Because of these recruiters’ willingness to communicate with one another, they’re now making multiple split placements and generating more revenue for their recruiting firms.

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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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“The Split Placement Tale from the Trenches,” courtesy of James Compton:

“I saw the jobs for Product Design Engineers posted in the Hot Jobs segment on TE.  I gave Larry a call, since I had some experience working in the Lighting field.

“Larry and I reviewed the specifics in detail and why a smaller, privately held company was offering a viable career alternative.  Larry was very open on the company, its history, product line, and why they were hiring for expansion of their product line.

“Over the last couple of months, we’ve had multiple interviews that have resulted in two placements so far.  Because of a unique tax situation in one of the states, the company would not hire our candidate.  We countered with the alternative of bringing the employee on as a contract employee.

“Thanks to Top Echelon Contracting, we had a solution that finally met the needs of the candidate and the company.  So Larry and I have two placements, and we are working on others.  It’s great to work with a Trading Partner who is open and informative.”

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When you’re the number-one recruiter in Top Echelon Network, you’ve made a lot of split placements.  And that’s definitely the case with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group, who’s now made a total of 101 placements as a Preferred Member recruiter.

In fact, the split placement highlighted in this installment of “Comments and Compliments” is the 101st that’s he made in the Network.  (So far in 2011, Cameron has already made 18 Network placements . . . with nearly three months left in the year.)  Congratulations, Trey, from everybody at Top Echelon for breaking the 100-placement barrier, and here’s hoping you can make 100 more.  Actually, we’re hoping that everybody on the recruiter split boards can make 100 more, but that probably doesn’t surprise you.

If you’d like to compliment your Trading Partner for a recent split placement (or placements), send your comments to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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“It’s about time.  I felt like I was the only recruiter in TE who hadn’t made a placement with Trey!”

Submitted by Robert Gabor of the Gabor Group regarding his split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE
Fee Percentage—25%

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“Exceptional candidate . . . thank you!”

Submitted by Cindy Sommer of SearchStars, Inc. regarding her split placement with Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Position Title—PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
Fee Percentage—18%

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Remember, if you have compliments for a Trading Partner regarding a split placement, please email them to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

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

How in the world is it the fourth quarter of 2011 already?  We have no idea . . . but we do know that means it’s time for our award winners for the third quarter of the year, not to mention the month of September.

And wouldn’t you know it?  We have a familiar face among the winners.  That face belongs to none other than Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group, who has been part of these monthly and quarterly awards quite a bit during the past year.

Below are the winners of the awards for September of 2011, as well as the third quarter of the year.  We’d like to congratulate those recruiters who earned them and thank them for their efforts.  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
Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Marasco was the only recruiter in the Network to make three split placements during the month of September.

Three recruiters made two split placements apiece.  They were Carolyn Barcus of Barcus Associates, Cameron, and John Hope of Tri-Force.

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Recruiter of the Quarter
Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Cameron, who also won this award for the fourth quarter of 2010, made a total of seven split placements during the recently completed third quarter.  Following Cameron were Russell Schutt, CSP of Progressive Executive, Inc. with six split placements; Pamela Ratz DeVille, CPC of Health Career Professional, LLC with four split placements; and Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc. and Marasco with three split placements apiece.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Patrick Walsh of the PSW Group and Denise Milano Sprung of JA Pharma, Inc.

This placement was for a Scientific Team Leader.  Walsh was the job order recruiter, and Milano Sprung was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a TE Network Member in my specialty area.”

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter
Amy Recker of Bridgeway Professionals, Inc. and Frank Gregg of Gregg & Associates

This placement was for a Vice President of Operations.  Recker was the job order recruiter, and Gregg was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this placement was listed as “The job order or candidate was found by searching the Members’ Area.”

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Top Echelon Network is a split placement network.  As such, we place an emphasis on split placements, and that emphasis constitutes our criteria for these awards.  We determine the monthly and quarterly award winners based upon two things: 1.) The number of split placements made, and 2.) The amount of cash-in dollars earned.