There are many split placement situations that arise between two recruiters in Top Echelon Network.   All of them are included in either The Policies or The Golden Rules of Networking.  In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Top Echelon Network President Mark Demaree addresses the issue of how to contact another recruiter’s candidate in a split placement situation (with a little help from Drea Codispoti and John Pagley).  As always, this is one “dramatization” that you don’t want to miss.

If you have any question about this Golden Rule, or about any of Top Echelon Network’s Golden Rules or Policies designed to help Preferred Member recruiters make more split placements, please contact Drea at (330) 455-1433, Ext.156 or via email at Drea@TopEchelon.com.

In this week’s episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Communications Coordinator Matt Deutsch and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti discuss how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) affects what a recruiter does and how a recruiter works.

By following the guidelines set forth by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, recruiters can avoid trouble, legal or otherwise.  Because if the EEOC doesn’t get you . . . the “Karma Police” will.

Top Echelon Network wants you to be a bum . . . a beach bum, that is.  That’s because our 2011 National Convention will be held at the Westin Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, May 12, through Saturday, May 14.  As is the case with ALL Top Echelon Network events, there will be plenty of networking and training opportunities, as well as fun, fun, and more fun.

Oh, and as a side note, Top Echelon Network just turned 23 years old on March 8.  So . . . we’d like to wish ourselves a happy birthday and also thank all of the recruiters who call themselves Preferred Members of the Network, especially the Charter Members, who have been with us since the beginning.

Some of the Top Producers in Top Echelon Network offer contract staffing to their client companies.  In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Top Echelon President Mark Demaree interviews Debbie Fledderjohann of Top Echelon Contracting, who explains the advantages of contract staffing and how recruiters can get started offering contracting to their client companies.  She also talks about why it’s important how you’re classifying your contractors if you run your own back-office.

If you don’t offer contracting to your clients, you should start.  You’re leaving money on the table that other recruiters are only too glad to snatch up.

If you have any questions, visit Top Echelon Contracting’s website at www.TopEchelonContracting.com or call (330) 454-3508.

Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters shouldn’t be living in the past . . . and that’s especially the case with their Recruiter Profile.

In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Top Echelon Network President Mark Demaree—as well as Communications Coordinator Matt Deutsch and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti—illustrate how neglecting the Recruiter Profile can sabotage recruiters’ attempts to network and make split placements.  As much as we’d like it to be, this just isn’t the 1980s anymore.

If there are other issues that you believe we should address in “Top Echelon TV” (with or without the “Top Echelon TV players,” let us know about them.  Send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

Most recruiters use a headset . . . but exactly how many?  Top Echelon conducted a survey of recruiters all across the country and asked them various questions about headset use.  In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Internet Strategies Manager Todd Bossler discusses the results of that survey.

Which headset do you use?  What kind do you use?  Do you have any additional information or feedback that would be useful to recruiters?  Comment below.

At Top Echelon Network, we’re ALL about communication.  After all, it’s one of the Four Pillars of the Network.  However, there’s a right way to communicate with other Preferred Members of Top Echelon Network, and there’s a wrong way.

In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Communications Coordinator Matt Deutsch and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti present an extreme example in order to illustrate the wrong way to ask another recruiter for information when attempting to switch niches.)

For a further explanation about how Top Echelon Network recruiters should approach this subject, read Drea’s post in this week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  And if there are other issues that you believe we should address in “Top Echelon TV” (with or without the “Top Echelon TV players,” let us know about them.  Send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com.

When we want answers from recruiters . . . we ask them questions, naturally.  In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Top Echelon Network President Mark Demaree and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti discuss the results of a recent recruiter survey.  In that survey, we asked recruiting firm owners their thoughts about business structure and why they chose the structure (S corp, LLC, etc.) that they did.

What say you?  As a recruiting firm owner, which business structure do you prefer?  Why did you make that choice?  What questions, if any, do you have about choosing the right business structure?

As a recruiter, do you offer a guarantee to your clients?  If so, what’s the timeframe?  What kind is it?  Top Echelon recently conducted a survey of recruiters from all across the country and asked them these same questions.  In this episode of “Top Echelon TV,” Communications Coordinator Matt Deutsch and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti discuss the results of that survey.

In addition, they share a share a box of chocolates and talk about wacky business slogans, one of which involves guarantees.  Because you can’t take recruiting too seriously.  After all, you’ll never get out of it alive.  We guarantee it.  Along that same vein, we’ve included outtakes from our filming, which you can view at the end of this week’s episode.  (Just remember, we laugh at ourselves just as much as we laugh at you.  Wait a minute . . . that didn’t sound right.)

What’s your take on guarantees?  If you’re a recruiter, we want your feedback, too.  If you’re not a recruiter, we still want your feedback.  We just might not put as much stock in it.  You understand.

Top Echelon Network President Mark Demaree and Membership Development Coordinator Drea Codispoti reveal where the money was in Top Echelon Network in 2010—specifically which industries were responsible for the most placements.  The top industry was Manufacturing, followed by Information Technology, Healthcare, Engineering, Sales & Marketing, and Accounting.

Once again, “Regular Communication with Trading Partner” was the number-one way in which Preferred Members made split placements.  Not only that, the amount of activity per firm rose in just about every category last year, including Offers Accepted per firm, Completed Placements per firm and jobs submitted per firm.  The only category that dropped was candidates submitted per firm.