A couple of weeks ago, I announced that the next meeting of the Central Ohio Regional Core Group was scheduled for Wednesday, December 11.

I’m back to announce that there’s been a change, specifically that the meeting has been moved up by one week, to Wednesday, December 4.

Please note that all other details regarding the meeting are the same.  I’ve listed those details below for quick reference.

During Regional Core Group meetings, Top Echelon recruiters have the opportunity to network with each other on a face-to-face basis (the best type of networking), as well as trade hot job orders and candidates and share strategies for increasing productivity.

The details regarding the next meeting of the Central Ohio Regional Core Group are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Location: Catering by Design

Address: 6465 Busch Blvd., Columbus, OH 43229

Phone number: 614.436.1234

Speaker: TBD (an announcement will be made once the agenda is released)

Cost: $25 per person, payable at the door OR we can add it to your Top Echelon invoice

If you’d like to attend the upcoming meeting of the Central Ohio Regional Core Group, please RSVP to me by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

I also encourage you to contact me at 330.455.1433, x156 if you’d like to join another existing Regional Core Group or if you’re thinking about starting a new one.

We have BOTH Virtual Core Groups and Regional Core Groups in this week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

Speaking of the former, the Central Ohio Regional Core Group has been one of the most successful Regional Core Groups in the 25-year history of Top Echelon Network.  (They have the split placements to back it up, that’s for sure.)

This is a group that gets together and meets face-to-face each and every year, without fail, and the recruiters that comprise this group are doing it again!  That’s right, the Central Ohio Regional Core Group has scheduled its next meeting.

The specifics of that meeting are listed below:

Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Location: Catering by Design

Address: 6465 Busch Blvd., Columbus, OH 43229

Phone number: 614.436.1234

Speaker: TBD (an announcement will be made once the agenda is released)

Cost: $25 per person, payable at the door OR we can add it to your Top Echelon invoice

During Regional Core Group meetings, Top Echelon recruiters have the opportunity to network with each other on a face-to-face basis (the best type of networking!), as well as trade hot job orders and candidates and share strategies for increasing productivity.

If you’d like to attend the upcoming meeting of the Central Ohio Regional Core Group, please RSVP to me by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.  I also encourage you to contact me at 330.455.1433, x156 if you’d like to join an another existing Regional Core Group or if you’re thinking about starting a new one.

We want you to network, we want you to form relationships, we want you to make new friends, and we want you to make more placements!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Midwest Regional Core Group has a date and a venue for its next meeting!

While that date isn’t exactly right around the corner, I encourage those recruiters who can attend to take this opportunity to work the date into their appointment books.

The next meeting of the Midwest Regional Core Group is scheduled for Friday, January 31, at the Ramada in Topeka, Kansas.  Not only is there a date, but there’s also a tentative itinerary, which is tentatively listed below:

9:30 to 10 a.m.—Networking

10 to 11 a.m.—“Making Social Media Manageable”

11 to 11:30 a.m.—Break/Networking

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.—“Lunch and Learn”

12:45 to 1 p.m.—Break/Networking

1 to 1:30 p.m.—Breakout groups for exchanging hot job orders and candidates

1:30 to 2 p.m.—Breakout group for exchanging best practices

2 to 5 p.m.—Open networking time

The tentative cost to attend the event is $50.  That price includes lunch, snacks, beverages, and the training.

Attending a Regional Core Group meeting is a great way to leverage the resources available in the Network and increase the value of your Membership!

If you’d like to attend this upcoming Regional Core Group meeting (or start a new one), please contact me at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156 or via email at Drea@TopEchelon.com.

SURVEY QUESTION:

Success in Top Echelon Network is predicated upon a great many things, not the least of which is Active Participation, one of the Four Pillars of the Network.

Among the ways that Network recruiters actively participate are Regional Core Group meetings (such as the Kansas City meeting pictured above) and Virtual Core Group meetings, both of which Top Echelon offers.  But how often do Network recruiters participate in these Core Group meetings?

We recently conducted a survey of our Network recruiters, and that survey was based upon the following question:

Have you ever attended a Top Echelon Network Regional or Virtual Core Group meeting?

SURVEY RESULTS:

The choice of answers that were provided is listed below, along with the percentage of recruiters who selected each answer:

• Yes, I’ve attended both. — 49.4%
• Yes, I’ve attended a Regional Core Group meeting. — 12.7%
• Yes, I’ve attended a Virtual Core Group meeting. — 11.4%
• No, I’ve attended neither. — 26.6%

SURVEY ANALYSIS:

Nearly 75% of the Network recruiters who responded to the survey have attended a Regional Core Group meeting, a Virtual Core Group meeting, or both of them.  That leaves just a quarter of participants having attended neither meeting.

If that was truly representative of the Network overall, it would bode quite well for the state of networking within Top Echelon.  However, since the recruiters most likely to attend a Virtual or Regional Core Group meeting are also the most likely to participate in a Network survey, extrapolating these results might make for a slightly skewed conclusion.

FEEDBACK:

How about YOU?  Have you attended a Regional or Virtual Core Group meeting as a Top Echelon Network recruiter?  If not, do you plan to attend one or the other in the near future?

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We’ve presented proof that Top Echelon Network Core Groups result in split placements for years and years and years.

And we have even more proof in this week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  Why is that?  Because the placements in the network of job placement recruiters are still happening!  In fact, you can’t stop them from happening (not that we’d actually want to do that . . . that’s crazy talk).

The Core Groups in question are Regional Core Groups—specifically, the Ohio Golf Outing Core Group and the Central Ohio Regional Core Group.  These groups have met regularly in the past and will be meeting regularly in the future.

As for the present?  They’re making placements as part of the split fee recruiting network!  (I thought we established that.)

If you would like to participate in one of these Core Groups, contact Top Echelon Network Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.  If you’d like to create your own Core Group or find out more about them, contact Drea for that, too.

If you’d like to compliment one of your Trading Partners for a recent split placement, you can contact ME by sending your comments to Marketing@TopEchelon.com.  Those comments will appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Thank you, Lee, for quickly jumping on this one when I emailed you for assistance.  As is often the case with candidates, a little extra TLC was involved, but it was well worth it!  I’m looking forward to our next one!  The Ohio Golf Group strikes again!”

Submitted by Debra L. Stitt, CPC of Quality Source Inc. of Ohio regarding her split placement with Lee Fierman of Gables Search Group, Inc.

Position Title—PAYROLL/HUMAN RESOURCE REPRESENTATIVE

Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: This is the second split placement that Stitt and Fierman have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Joe searched Monster.com after attending the Central Ohio Core Group meeting.  Thanks, Joe, for taking the initiative and searching and sending me this candidate.”

Submitted by Alan Daum of Alan N. Daum & Associates, Inc. regarding his split placement with Joe Cotter of J.D. Cotter Search, Inc.

Position Title—ELECTRICAL & INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: This is the first split placement that Daum and Cotter have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

The Central Ohio Regional Core Group is meeting again!

Why are they meeting?  Because the members of the group find value in these meetings, including making split placements together . . . which is why YOU should consider joining a Regional Core Group, too.  (If you haven’t already, that is.  I’ll cut you some slack then.)

Below are the specifics for the next Central Ohio Regional Core Group meeting.

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Location: Catering by Design

Address: 6465 Busch Blvd., Columbus, OH 43229

Phone number: (614) 436-1234

Speaker: TBD (an announcement will be made once a speaker is selected)

Cost: $18 per person, payable at the door

Make your checks payable to “Drea Codi—“ . . . no, scratch that.  Make your checks payable to “Top Echelon Network.”  Or, if you’d like, we can just add the total to your monthly Top Echelon invoice.  We’re flexible like that.

If you’d like to join this meeting, please RSVP to me by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com. I also encourage you to contact me if you’d like to join an existing Regional Core Group or start a new one.

I strongly encourage you . . .

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Members of the Fort Wayne Regional Core Group get together for a photo following their most recent meeting.  Pictured, left to right—Pat McCombs of KB Search Team, LLC; Brenda Wylie-Biggs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC; Jeff Peters of Peters Search Group, LLC; Rhonda Dove of KB Search Team, LLC; Susie Carr of KB Search Team, LLC; Kathy Bruns of KB Search Team, LLC; John Hope of Tri-Force; and Tom Havey, CPC of Corporate Management Solutions, Inc.

If you have a Regional Core Group meeting upcoming, or you plan to meet with another Preferred Member recruiter, be sure to send us a photo!  You can send your photo to marketing@topechelon.com.

How in the world is it already June?  I have no idea.  The year is flying by.

What I do know, though, is the date of this year’s Top Echelon Recruitment Network Ohio Golf Outing.  That date: Thursday, July 19.

This outing has been held for the better part of a decade now, and the benefits of attending this event have been proven time after time after time.  Recruiters have golfed together, networked together, and made split placements together—that’s the perfect blueprint for success.

With that in mind, I’d like to take a moment to thank Preferred Member recruiter Debra L. Stitt, CPC of Quality Source Inc. of Ohio for all the work she’s put into this event over the years.  She helped to build the outing into what it is today, and we’re truly grateful for her efforts.

Below are the specifics regarding this year’s outing.

Location:
Bunker Hill Golf Course
3060 Pearl Road
Medina, OH  44256

Cost: $30 per person
Date: Thursday, July 19
Format: scramble
Time: 10 a.m. shotgun start

Note that food is NOT included in the cost of the outing.  If you desire sustenance, you can always run up to Bunker’s Grill and order something off their menu.

If you’d like to participate in this year’s Top Echelon Network Ohio Golf Outing, please contact me as soon as you can.  You do NOT have to work or live in Ohio to participate in this event!  All are welcome, regardless of origin (even people from Michigan).

Let’s network, share job orders, take a break from our busy desks, and have some fun together . . . before this year passes us by.

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There are many different ways that you can make split placements in Top Echelon Network!

Many of them are covered in this week’s installment of Completed Placements.  However, there’s one that’s not covered, and I’d like to do that now.

That way is through participation in Regional Core Group meetings.

Meeting recruiters on a face-to-face basis at these meetings is a great way to make splits with other recruiters.  And I’m not just talking about placements within your niche, but also about placements outside your niche, as well.

However, before we get to how YOU can benefit from participating in these groups, I’d like to present the most recent placement resulting from a Regional Core Group meeting.

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“The NE Ohio Core Group puts up another one!  Linda provided the perfect candidate for my job.  We communicate regularly and openly share our jobs.  That is why this placement happened.  Thank you, Linda!”

Submitted by David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc. regarding his split placement with Linda Gutekunst of LR Solutions, LLC

Position Title—IT SECURITY ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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The bottom line is this: Regional Core Group meetings = split placements.

I want you to participate in Regional Core Group meetings, namely because I want you to make more split placements and make more money.  To that end, if you’d like to participate in such a group (or start your own), contact me immediately.

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Here at Top Echelon Network, we are ALL about networking, and that includes both traditional networking and social networking.

That’s why we’re doing our best to meld the best of both worlds.

Regional Core Groups within the Network have started to heat up again in recent months.  This is not too surprising, since economic conditions in the country seem to be getting better and companies appear more interested in hiring again. (In fact, the economy added over 200,000 jobs during the month of February.)

At one time, we had anywhere from six to eight Regional Core Groups operating within the Network.  While we don’t have that many groups at the moment, they’re making a comeback.  In other words, the recruiters in these Core Groups are meeting, and they’re making plans to meet again in the future.

With that in mind, we plan to create individual photo albums on the Top Echelon Network Facebook Fan Page dedicated to each of the Regional Core Groups within the Network.  That way, every time the group holds an event, we can post pictures of that event in the album for all to see.

By way of illustration, we’ve already started with two Core Groups that recently held meetings.

The Mo/Kan Regional Core Group:

This is short for the Missouri/Kansas City Regional Core Group.  Before, it was known only as the Kansas City Regional Core Group.  This group had a meeting last month in Leawood, Kan., and we have a couple of photos with more information.

Click here to access the Mo/Kan Regional Core Group photo album on Facebook.

The Maryland/D.C./Virginia Regional Core Group:

This group was once known only as the Maryland Regional Core Group before expanding its territory slightly.  What hasn’t changed, though, is the fact that the group holds a special after-holiday party every year, complete with annual awards.  The latest after-holiday party for this Core Group also took place last month.

Click here to access the Maryland/D.C./Virginia Regional Core Group photo album on Facebook.

There are, of course, other Regional Core Groups currently operating in the Network, chief among them the Fort Wayne Regional Core Group and the Central Ohio Regional Core Group.  Facebook photo albums will be created for those recruiters, as well, and the albums will be filled with photos from their events as they are provided.

Which brings me to my next point . . . please send us photos of your Regional Core Group events.  We can’t post photos of events that we don’t have.  So snap some pictures and send them our way, and if you’re interested in joining an existing Regional Core Group—or starting a new one—be sure to contact me.

Oh, and if you’re Facebook Friends with any of the recruiters in these photos . . . be sure to tag them for me, would you?  Thanks.

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