Are we “beating a dead horse,” for want of a better phrase?  (Actually, can we even say that anymore?  Is that taboo?)

I’m referring to the fact that Network recruiters who attended the recent 2013 Top Echelon Network National Convention continue to make split placements—and we continue to highlight them (and their placements).

Well, if they wouldn’t make so many placements, then we wouldn’t highlight them so much.

Okay, so we’re not “beating a dead horse.”  Instead, we’re “beating the drum” for attending Top Echelon Network conferences and conventions, and we’re doing it because that apparently leads to an avalanche of placements.  (Can we say “avalanche”?  Isn’t that a term associated with disaster?)

Well, what we KNOW we can say, with absolute certainty, is that if you attend the Top Echelon Network Fall Conference in October, you’ll dramatically increase your chances of making more placements. These recruiter conferences can be great.

Below are the positions that were recently filled by Network recruiters (the names of recruiters who attended the 2013 National Convention are italicized):

• Client Technical Architect Visionary
  
• Accounting Manager
  
• EHSQ Director
  
• Supply Chain Director
• SQA Engineer
  
• Maintenance Manager
  
• Safety Manager
  

If you work within the above industries and would like to know how you can make split placements in Top Echelon Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS:

Job order recruiter: Carl L. Bradford of Bradford Consulting Companies

Candidate recruiter: Deb North of Deb North Consulting, LLC

Job title: CLIENT TECHNICAL ARCHITECT VISIONARY

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Debi Apple of Apple & Assoc. Inc.

Job title: ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Fee percentage—22.5%

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: David Kersey of Kersey & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search

Job title: EHSQ DIRECTOR

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maggie Cashman of Cassara Management Group, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR

Fee percentage—20%

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Mario Linale of Atlas Consulting Group, LLC

Job title: SQA ENGINEER

Fee percentage—15%

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

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Job order recruiter: Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Mike Lupidi, CPC of M.J. Lupidi & Associates, Inc.

Job title: MAINTENANCE MANAGER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Kathleen Porter of International Staffing Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Neal G. Lehman of Sherwood Lehman Massucco, Inc.

Job title: SAFETY MANAGER

Fee percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

Why are we calling this the “2013 National Convention Edition” of split placements in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog?

Because in all of the split placements listed below, at least one of the recruiters involved attended the 2013 Top Echelon Network National Convention in Florida last week.

In fact, in two of the placements, BOTH of the recruiters involved attended the convention.  Not only that, but some of the recruiters involved in these split placements who didn’t attend the convention DID attend a Top Echelon event in the past.

This is no mere coincidence.  This is hard evidence that Top Echelon recruiter networking conferences and conventions provide value for those who attend them.  And to help you sift through the evidence, the names of the recruiters below who attended the 2013 National Convention have been italicized.

As you can see, the evidence speaks for itself.

Below are the positions that were recently filled by Network recruiters:

• Software Engineer
  
• Support Analyst
  
• Staff Verification Engineer
  
• Insurance/VP Commercial Lines
• Corporate Accounts Manager
  
• Quality Engineer
• Production Supervisor/Process Engineer

If you work within these industries and would like to know more about how you can make split placements in the Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Jim Petitpren of The PRA Group, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Judy Kaplan of Prof’l Recruiting Consultants

Job title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Fee percentage—30%

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

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Job order recruiter: Deb North of Deb North Consulting, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Kristy Bellingham Jones of Jones-Ingham Exec and Sales Recruiting

Job title: SUPPORT ANALYST

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Marty Stan of Samaritan Technical Professional

Candidate recruiter: Jim Fitzpatrick of Fitzpatrick & Associates

Job title: STAFF VERIFICATION ENGINEER

Fee percentage—15%

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

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Job order recruiter: Kirby Butler, CPC of The Butlers Co. Insurance Recruiters

Candidate recruiter: Mike McDonough of General Search and Recruitment

Job title: INSURANCE/VP COMMERICAL LINES

Fee percentage—25%

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: Daniel B. Lear of Omega Systems, LLC

Job title: CORPORATE ACCOUNTS MANAGER

Fee percentage—18%

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

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Job order recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Eric Berg of JN Adams & Associates, Inc.

Job title: QUALITY ENGINEER

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: John Peterson of Sun Recruiting, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Ben Lawrence of Career Solutions of Arizona

Job title: PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR/PROCESS ENGINEER
Fee percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: “This is Ben’s first placement as a recruiter!”

Top Echelon Network recruiter Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. is moving up the Top Producer rankings (currently #4 overall), and he has plenty of great stories on the way up.

In fact, here are three that were recently published in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

And guess what?  We have two more stories from Stuck about split placements that he’s made with other Network recruiters.

As a bonus, the placements mark the first time that Stuck has closed a Network deal with these recruiters.  That means new Trading Partners, which means more split placements in the future.

Stuck is a recruiter who believes in the Network system, who works it every day with enthusiasm, and who attends Top Echelon’s networking events.  (He was at the National Convention this past weekend!)

That’s why he’s a Top Producer, why he’s made 14 Network placements in the past year, and why he has a ton of great recruiting stories.

Is your story next?

If YOU have a recruiting story about a recent split placement with another Network recruiter, send your comments to marketing@topechelon.com, and they’ll appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“So this was a unique placement.  The candidate Laurie presented started the interview process before Christmas, then left for a trip to Argentina and came back a month later, finished the interview process, and landed the job.  Good things happen to those who wait.  What a super job Laurie did in both finding this candidate and communicating along the way.  Thanks, Laurie!”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Laurie Gillespie of Dayspring & Associates

Position Title—SOFTWARE ENGINEER – PROGRESS

Fee Percentage—15%

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

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“Bill has been super to work with to place these Progress Developers.  He has sent multiple candidates, and they all seem to get interviews and do well.  It’s just a matter of time until we get another one, Bill.  Thanks for all of your hard work on finding such great candidates.”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Bill Law of OraStaff, Inc.

Position Title—SOFTWARE ENGINEER – PROGRESS

Fee Percentage—15%

(Editor’s note: This is the first split placement that Stuck and Law have made together in Top Echelon recruiter network.)

Since it’s baseball season, it’s only appropriate that we talk about the “Cal Ripken, Jr.” of Top Echelon Network.

Ripken played his entire Major League Baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles, setting the league record for most consecutive games played at 2,632.  Now that’s consistency.

Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc. has also maintained an incredibly high level of consistency in the Network during the past 10 years, winning numerous awards in the process.  To date, Napoles has made 176 Network placements for a cash-in total of over $1.5 million.

Of those 176 split placements, he’s made 16 of them with Wendy Johnson of CPS and Professionals Incorporated, including one in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  As one might suspect, Napoles has made multiple placements with numerous Network recruiters down through the years.

Napoles’s split placement with Johnson is one of two that he has in this week’s issue, and it’s also one of seven that he’s made already in the Network in 2013.  If anybody’s going to catch Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group before the end of the year, it’s going to be the “Cal Ripken, Jr.” of Top Echelon Network.

Below are the positions that were recently filled by Network recruiters:

• IT Project Manager
  
• SAP Bi Dev
  
• Manager of Product Automation
  
• Operations Manager – Industrial Manufacturing
  
• RN/Director of Clinical Services – Hospice
  
• Software Engineer – Progress (two of them!)
  

If you work within any of these industries and would like to know more about how you can make split placements in Top Echelon Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Wendy Johnson of CPS and Professionals Incorporated

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

Job title: IT PROJECT 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: Matt Bruns of the North Peak Group

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

Job title: SAP BI DEV

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Nick Stoia, CPC of ASAP Search and Recruiters

Candidate recruiter: Joe Miglizzi of Perspective

Job title: MANAGER OF PRODUCT AUTOMATION

Fee percentage—30%

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

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Job order recruiter: Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Dan Lawlor of Dan Lawlor

Job title: OPERATIONS MANAGER – INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Troy Randolph of Lea Randolph & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: RN/DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVICES – HOSPICE

Fee percentage—Flat

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Bill Law of OraStaff, Inc.

Job title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER – PROGRESS

Fee percentage—15%

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Mario Linale of Atlas Consulting Group, LLC

Job title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER – PROGRESS

Fee percentage—15%

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

Question: What’s the quickest way to get special mention in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog?

Answer: Make two (or more placements) in one week.

Of course to do that, you just have to send us the checks for two split placements at the same time . . . just like Network recruiter Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions in Houston, Texas did recently!

That’s why we’re highlighting Dunn, one of the top recruiters who has made 24 split placements during her time as a Preferred Member recruiter in Top Echelon Network.  That total includes five placements in 2011 and six placements in 2012.

Dunn specializes in the permanent placement of Information Technology, Accounting/Finance, Human Resources, and occasional Sales and Marketing professionals nationwide.  Be sure to visit her Recruiter Profile for more information.

After you do that, we invite you to check out all of the positions that were recently filled through the joint effort of Top Echelon Network recruiters:

• Business Analyst – Financial Systems
• Senior .NET Developer
• Risk Manager
• Maintenance Technician
• Production Supervisor

If you have any questions about how YOU can make more split placements in Top Echelon Network and generate more revenue for your recruiting firm, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Debi Apple of Apple & Assoc. Inc.

Job title: BUSINESS ANALYST – FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

Fee percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook staffing agency website design.

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Job order recruiter: Amy Dunn of Technology Recruiting Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Doris Painter of Painter & Associates

Job title: SENIOR .NET DEVELOPER
Fee percentage—18%

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

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Job order recruiter: Frank Sommer of SearchStars, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jeffrey Gipson of The James Allen Companies, Inc.

Job title: RISK MANAGER

Fee percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: “Amy Simpson, candidate recruiter, saw shared [job] order and responded.”

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Job order recruiter: Kenneth Lowry of Lowry Personnel Services

Candidate recruiter: Thomas Edwards of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Brenda Wylie-Biggs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SAFETY ENGINEER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Don Lewis of The Doepker Group

Candidate recruiter: Bob Wick of Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.

Job title: PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Candidate $ per hour—$20.19

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

We are all connected . . . by the “great circle of split placements”!

Okay, so that phrase didn’t originate from a Disney animated film that grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.  However, it was the product of this week’s placements in Top Echelon Network.

That’s because we featured Network recruiter Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, and he recently made a split placement with Network recruiter Laurie Gillespie of Dayspring & Associates.

Gillespie, meanwhile, has not one, but TWO split placements in this week’s issue of The Pinnacle.

Does that seem more like a triangle to you than a circle, maybe even an isosceles triangle?  Unfortunately, the “great isosceles triangle of split placements” doesn’t make much sense.

While I try to figure this out, please peruse the list of positions that were recently filled by Top Echelon Network recruiters:

• Software Engineer – Progress
  
• Datastage Systems Consultant
  
• Polymer Research Engineer
  
• Data Analytics & Visualization Analyst
  
• HR Manager
  
• Web Developer/Programmer
  
• Project Manager
  
• Key Account Sales – Central
  

Do you work within the industries and disciplines represented by these positions?  If so, then we might be featuring YOUR split placement next!

If you have any questions about circles, triangles, or how you can make placements in Top Echelon Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

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

Candidate recruiter: Laurie Gillespie of Dayspring & Associates

Job title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER – PROGRESS

Fee percentage—15%

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

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Job order recruiter: Melinda O’Neill of Enterprise Search Associates, LLC

Candidate recruiter:  Laurie Gillespie of Dayspring & Associates

Job title: DATASTAGE SYSTEMS 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: Karen Akbal-Sturgeon of KLA Industries

Candidate recruiter: Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc.

Job title: POLYMER RESEARCH ENGINEER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Kim Kirby of Balanced Career Solutions, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Catherine Reynolds of OnBoard Recruitment Advisers

Job title: DATA ANALYTICS & VISUALIZATION ANALYST

Fee percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: “Catherine saw the job posting on TE and called me to get more information on it.”

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Job order recruiter: Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

Candidate recruiter: Ken Nunley of 7 Solutions USA

Job title: HR 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: Robert Briones, CPC of R.A. Briones & Company

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

Job title: WEB DEVELOPER/PROGRAMMER

Fee percentage—30%

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

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Job order recruiter: Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Paul Miller of Miller-Franklin Search Group

Job title: PROJECT MANAGER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Maja Munoz of Human Technologies, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Rob Spaulding of Spaulding Associates

Job title: KEY ACCOUNT SALES – CENTRAL

Fee percentage—30%

Action causing split placement: “Rob Spaulding emailed asking if we still needed candidates.  He sent a solid one, and it was a done deal!”

Everybody loves a good story . . . especially a good recruiting story.

This week in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we don’t have just one or even two good recruiting stories—we have three!  That trio of headhunting tales is courtesy of Top Echelon Network recruiter Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.

There are many things that make these stories great:

• All three were the first split placement that Stuck made with the other recruiters involved (Kevin Bautista, Steve Strickland, and Terry Rhodes).
• In two of the three situations, the other recruiter was making their first split placement in Top Echelon Network (Bautista and Rhodes).
• One of the splits involved the placement of a Chief Executive Officer, which brought with it a rather hefty fee.
• Each split placement exemplifies the teamwork associated with high-quality Trading Partner relationships in the Network.

We’d like to thank Stuck for submitting his comments and for helping us to highlight these split placements—and these three great recruiting stories!

If YOU have a great recruiting story regarding a recent split placement with another Network recruiter, send your comments to marketing@topechelon.com, and they’ll appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“This was a unique placement.  The candidate Laurie presented started the interview process before Christmas, then left for a month-long trip to Argentina and came back a month later, finished the interview process, and landed the job.  Good things happen those who wait.  What a super job Laurie did in both finding this candidate and communicating along the way.  Thanks, Laurie!”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Kevin Bautista of Joseph Michaels International

Position Title—SQL DEVELOPER

Fee Percentage—15%

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

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“Bill has been super to work with to place these Progress Developers.  He has sent multiple candidates, and they all seem to get interviews and do well.  It’s just a matter of time until we get another one, Bill.  Thanks for all of your hard work on finding such great candidates!”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Steve Strickland of American Career Search, Inc.

Position Title—CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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“It was great working with Terry on our first split together.  [He] sent just this one candidate to see if I had interest, and lo and behold, she ended up getting the job out of multiple candidates who interviewed.  Nice job!  Looking forward to working together again one day.”

Submitted by Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. regarding his split placement with Terry Rhodes of NewCareers

Position Title—BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—15%

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

The great thing about Trading Partner relationships in Top Echelon Network is that once you reach a certain point, the placements just start to flow.

Take, for example, two of the recruiters highlighted in this week’s placements—Patrick Staudacher and Sean Napoles.

Staudacher and Napoles have made seven split placements during the past two years, and two of those occurred recently.  This is just more evidence of the fact that once you make one split placement with another Preferred Member recruiter, many more can follow.

Below is the list of positions that were filled this past week by Network recruiters:

• SAP Analyst SD
  
• SAP Manager
  
• Director of Purchasing
  
• Chief Executive Officer
  
• Vice President – Assistant Controller
• Product Engineering Manager
  
• Software Developer
  
• Process Engineer
  

Are you looking to fill positions just like these?  Do you work with candidates who have these titles?  Then YOU can make placements in Top Echelon Network.

If you have questions about how you can make placements in Top Echelon Network, contact Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at (330) 455-1433, Ext. 156.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Patrick Staudacher, CPC of Talsco, Inc.

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

Job title: SAP ANALYST SD

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Patrick Staudacher, CPC of Talsco, Inc.

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

Job title: SAP Manager

Fee percentage—Flat

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

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Job order recruiter: Joe Noto of Regency Search Group

Candidate recruiter: Anjela Mangrum of Mangrum Career Solutions, LLC

Job title: DIRECTOR OF PURCHASING

Fee percentage—25%

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

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

Candidate recruiter: Steve Strickland of American Career Search, Inc.

Job title: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: John Moskonas of The ARGroup of Search Companies

Candidate recruiter: Roy Cope of R. Cope & Associates, Inc.

Job title: VICE PRESIDENT – ASSISTANT CONTROLLER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Mark Udulutch of Markent Personnel

Candidate recruiter: Ronald L. Puibello of Ronald L. Puibello Search, Inc.

Job title: PRODUCT ENGINEERING MANAGER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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Job order recruiter: Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Job title: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Fee percentage—20%

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

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Job order recruiter: Jim Hipskind, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: John Peterson of Sun Recruiting, Inc.

Job title: PROCESS ENGINEER

Fee percentage—25%

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

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We have an epidemic on our hands . . . an epidemic of recruiters making split placements because they met at the 2012 Top Echelon Network Fall Conference!

We’ve been chronicling these placements during the last several weeks, first to give the recruiters involved some publicity and second to underscore the value associated with attending events like the Fall Conference . . .

And the upcoming 2013 National Convention.

Is St. Petersburg Beach a nice place to hold a convention?  Of course.  Will you gain knowledge by listening to our great lineup of speakers (Danny Cahill, Amy Bingham, and Bob Marshall)?  Of course.

But what’s the main reason to attend this convention, the reason that promises the most value and holds the most potential?

The opportunity to meet recruiters you’ve never met before (specifically within your industry and/or niche), to form Trading Partner relationships with those recruiters, and then to make money with those recruiters!

Sound too good to be true?  It’s not.  The evidence of this “split placement epidemic” is mounting, and there’s more of it below.

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“I met Kristy at the Chicago conference and could tell immediately that she is a real pro.  We have a very similiar ‘style,’ and it’s great working together.  I anticipate more placements for she and I in the future!”

Submitted by Deb North of Deb North Consulting, LLC regarding her split placement with Kristy Bellingham Jones of Jones-Ingham Exec and Sales Recruiting

Position Title—SUPPORT ANALYST
Fee Percentage—25%

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

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The 2013 Top Echelon Network National Convention is scheduled for Thursday, April 25, through Saturday, April 27, at the TradeWinds Resort Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Click here to see who is already registered for the convention.  One (or more) of these recruiters could be your next Trading Partner.  Three or four months from now, you could be making a split placement—or maybe even two, like Joe Noto and Anjela Mangrum.

What are you waiting for?  Go to Florida, find Trading Partners, and make money!

Register for the 2013 National Convention!

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Many of you probably know what a “runner’s high” is.  According to Dictionary.com, it’s “a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.”

But really, who wants to go running?  Why not just make split fee recruiting network placements instead?

After all, you have to figure that at least the same amount of endorphins are released into your bloodstream when you make a placement as when you run five miles.  Not only that, but when you make a placement, you don’t feel like you’re going to throw up and/or pass out.

As you can see below, the recruiters in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” aren’t enjoying a “runner’s high” . . . they’re enjoying a “placement high”!

They’ve made spit placements with other Preferred Member recruiters in situations where they might not have made a placement at all, and the endorphins are coursing through their bloodstream as we speak.  Not only that, but the only place they have to run to is the bank—to deposit their placement check before it closes.

Then they can come back home and eat chocolates on the sofa while watching re-runs of Three’s Company.  Not that I do that or anything . . . I’m just sayin’.

Remember, if you’d like to compliment one of your recruiting network Trading Partners for a recent split placement, send your comments to marketing@topechelon.com, and they’ll appear in a future issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

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“Bob is a great partner.  His knowledge of the printing industry was key to this placement.  He has helped me work on searches before with this client, and I’m thrilled we finally got one to come together!”

Submitted by Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc. regarding her split placement with Bob Allen of The ManCom Team, Inc.

Position Title—SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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“This is my first split placement with Paul . . . I hope it’s the beginning of many more!”

Submitted by Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC regarding her split placement with Paul Miller of Miller-Franklin Search Group

Position Title—PROJECT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

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

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