By now, you probably know that Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. is the Recruiter of the Month in Top Echelon Network for the month of March.

However, you might not know that one of the reasons he earned that honor is because he was part of the Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2013.  That makes sense, since after the number of split placements made, a recruiter’s cash-in total is the second criteria that we consider when determining who wins our monthly and quarterly Network awards.

What makes this particular placement special is that its fee is so high that it’s currently in the running for the Highest Split Placement Fee of the Year.  Fees that have won this award in the past have actually been smaller than the one that Stuck and his Trading Partner, Steve Strickland of American Career Search, Inc. recently made.

So don’t be surprised if you see Stuck’s face in the future (in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, that is).  You might also see him in person at a Top Echelon Network conference or convention or at a Regional Core Group meeting . . . or if you and he are good friends, you might cross paths on a social basis.

You get the picture.  Move along.

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HIGHEST SPLIT PLACEMENT FEE OF THE QUARTER
Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc. and Steve Strickland of American Career Search, Inc.

This placement was for a Chief Executive Officer.  Stuck was the job order recruiter, and Strickland was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this split placement was listed as, “Regular phone communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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SECOND PLACE
Job order recruiter: John Moskonas of The ARGroup of Search Companies
Candidate recruiter: Roy Cope of R. Cope & Associates, Inc.
Position title: Vice President – Assistant Controller

THIRD PLACE
Job order recruiter: Pamela Ratz DeVille, CPC of Managed Medicaid Services
Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group
Position title: VP of Finance

FOURTH PLACE
Job order recruiter: Richard Connors of Vista Technology
Candidate recruiter: Alan Daum of Alan N. Daum & Associates, Inc.
Position title: Automation Engineer – BioPharmaceutical

FIFTH PLACE
Job order recruiter: Maja Munoz of Human Technologies, Inc.
Candidate recruiter: Rob Spaulding of Spaulding Associates
Position title: Key Account Sales – Central

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For more information about the cash-in totals associated with these placements (specifically, the exact amount of the fees), please login to the Top Echelon Network Members’ Area and view the details associated with the placements.

The Top Echelon Network Recruiter of the Year for 2011 and 2012 may have let Recruiter of the Quarter honors slip through his fingers during the fourth quarter of last year . . . but Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group is back to reclaim his spot at the top of the recruiter heap.

That’s because he is once again the Recruiter of the Quarter, this time for the first quarter of 2013.  That kind of start makes Cameron the odds-on favorite to win the Recruiter of the Year honors for the third straight year.

As usual, Cameron had plenty of competition for the award (as you can see below).  The majority of these recruiters will be in attendance at the upcoming Top Echelon Network National Convention in St. Petersburg, Fla., and some of them—such as Cameron—will be receiving awards for their performance in the Network during 2012.

For more information about the split placements and cash-in totals associated with these recruiters, please login to the Members’ Area and view their profiles and placement details.

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RECRUITER OF THE QUARTER
Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Cameron made six split placements during the first quarter of 2013.  That was the most of any recruiter in Top Echelon Network and two more than the second-place finisher, Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.  However, Stuck is the Recruiter of the Month for March.

Also making four split placements during the first quarter were Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC; Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.; and Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates.

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2ND PLACE
Recruiter: Michael Stuck
Firm: Gables Search Group, Inc.
# of split placements: four (4)

3RD PLACE
Recruiter: Maria Hemminger
Firm: MJ Recruiters, LLC
# of split placements: four (4)

4TH PLACE
Recruiter: Sean Napoles, CPC
Firm: Career Brokers, Inc.
# of split placements: four (4)

5TH PLACE
Recruiter: Ron Sunshine
Firm: Ron Sunshine Associates
# of split placements: four (4)

6TH PLACE
Recruiter: David Wick, CPC
Firm: Career Center of Cincinnati, Inc.
# of split placements: three (3)

7TH PLACE
Recruiter: John Wharton
Firm: The Garret Group
# of split placements: three (3)

Preferred Member recruiter Dan Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc. has enjoyed a lot of success in Top Echelon Network:

• 178 placements
• Over $1.2 million cash-in
• Scores of plaques and trophies for achievement

A Network Member since 1996, Dan has certainly got 2013 off to a good start.  First, he made the very first split placement in Top Echelon Network.  On the heels of that, he earned “Recruiter of the Month” honors for the month of January!

Dan made seven placements in the Network in 2012, and he appears poised to match (and probably) surpass that total this year.  Dan’s areas of specialization are professionals in sales, marketing, management, production, R&D in animal agriculture.

If you have a job order or candidate that you think would interest Dan, reach out to him.  He’s always on the lookout for new Trading Partners . . . and more split placements!

As always, we recognize recruiters for both monthly and quarterly performance in four categories—“Recruiter of the Month,” “Recruiter of the Quarter,” “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month,” and “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter.”

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
Dan Simmons, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Dan was one of a handful of recruiters who made two split placements in the Network during the month of January.  However, his overall cash-in total for those two placements was larger than anybody else’s total, earning him first place.

Other Preferred Member recruiters who made two placements during the month were Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates and Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group.

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Highest Split Placement Fee of the Month
Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC and Jim Folger of ONESource Technical, Inc.

The position for this placement was a Corporate Controller.  Maria was the job order recruiter, and Jim was the candidate recruiter.  The action that stimulated this split placement was listed as “Regular phone communication with a Top Echelon Network Member in my specialty area.”

(Editor’s Note: click here for the “‘Comments’ and Compliments” feature about this placement.)

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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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Since Top Echelon Network is a split placement network, there are many different types of recruiters who are Preferred Members.  Some are exporters who provide candidates (candidate recruiters) and some are importers who receive candidates (job order recruiters).

Each year in the Network, we recognize the recruiter who provides the most candidates in a split placement situation and the recruiter who places the most candidates in a split placement situation.  These recruiters are referred to as The Supplier of the Year and The Placer of the Year, respectively.

The Supplier of the Year for 2012 is Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group.

The Placer of the Year for 2012 is Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC.

Trey made a total of 35 placements in the Network last year, and he supplied the candidate for every single one of those placements.

Maria, on the other hand, made 19 placements in the Network last year, and she placed the candidate in every single one of those split placement situations.

As with all of our awards, Trey and Maria will also be recognized at the 2013 Top Echelon Network National Convention in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.  As part of that recognition, they’ll receive a plaque in front of their peers during the Awards Luncheon at the convention.

Congratulations, Trey and Maria, from everybody at Top Echelon Network!

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Up next on our list of award winners for 2012 is The Largest Split Placement Fee of the Year, and the story associated with this placement is a rather interesting one. We highlighted this placement in our “‘Comments’ and Compliments Extra” last year, not only because of the size of the fee, but also for the circumstances that surrounded it. Let’s start with the basics, though.  The placement was made by Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC and Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC.  Steve was the job order recruiter, and Jeff was the candidate recruiter.  The two of them placed a Global Alliance Program Director-Business Development. The amount of the fee that they split for placing that candidate: $49,000. With that total in mind, it’s not surprising that one of the recruiters was a bit superstitious about the placement.  After all, it’s not every month that a recruiter earns a placement fee as large as that one.  But I digress.  Instead, I’ll let Steve and Jeff tell the story in their own words.

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“‘The Kingfish’ of passive recruiting!  It was the fact that Jeff wore his ‘stinky lucky socks’ since January 1 that gave this hire the boost it needed.  Jeff didn’t take those socks off until our candidate showed up on the job!  He even wore them to bed.  I bet he slept in the other room with the dog . . . if the dog could stand it, that is.”

Submitted by Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC regarding his split placement with Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC Position Title—GLOBAL ALLIANCE PROGRAM DIRECTOR Fee Percentage—25% (Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Copeland and Gilbert have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“We recruiters are a very superstitious bunch!  What can I say, I have my ‘lucky socks.’  Now that summer is upon us, you can imagine . . . they look pretty ridiculous with my flip flops.  Regardless, we have many more deals to close by year’s end!”

Submitted by Jeff Gilbert of Kingfish Technology, LLC regarding his split placement with Steve Copeland of Albert Energy, LLC Position Title—GLOBAL ALLIANCE PROGRAM DIRECTOR Fee Percentage—25%(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Copeland and Gilbert have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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As you may have noticed, we’ve been recognizing Preferred Member recruiters in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog for their performance in the Network in 2012.

We’ve announced The Recruiter of the Year, the Top Ten Recruiters and the Regional Award winners in past issues, and in this blog post, I’d like to unveil “The Firm of the Year” award.  That award goes to . . . the Cameron Craig Group in Mooresville, N.C.!

Actually, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, since Trey Cameron earned Recruiter of the Year honors for 2012.  However, Trey was one of two recruiters in the offices of the Cameron Craig Group.  The other was Gene McQueen, and their combined production helped propel the firm to the top.

Trey made a whopping 35 placements in the Network in 2012.  The truth be told, that total alone was probably enough to win The Firm of the Year award.  However, Gene contributed two more placements to that total, boosting it to 37 placements overall for the firm.

Trey and Gene have been busy already this year, with Trey making three split placements in the Network during the month of January and Gene adding another placement.

The Cameron Craig Group will be further recognized at the upcoming 2013 Top Echelon Network National Convention in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.  From everybody at Top Echelon, I’d like to congratulate Trey and Gene for winning The Firm of the Year award for 2012!

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As you may remember, we announced Top Echelon Network’s Regional Award winners for 2012 in five of the nine regions in last week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.

Now it’s time to announce the winners in the other four regions!

As I mentioned before, for the purposes of this award, we break the country up into nine different regions.  The Regional Awards are based upon the Frequent Placer Program (FPP) points that Preferred Member recruiters earn during the course of the calendar year.

Members can earn FPP points in a variety of ways, starting with making split placements.  They can also earn them for telephone interviews, face-to-face interviews, and meeting other Preferred Member recruiters in person.

Below are the winners of the remaining four regions within Top Echelon Network for 2011.  The top five recruiters in each region are listed, along with the number of FPP points they earned.  The top recruiter in each region will receive an award at the 2013 National Convention in St. Petersburg, Fla. in April.  (And I’d better see you there!)

Below are the 2012 winners in our final four regions:

South Atlantic

539,699—Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

187,121—Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

172,561—Jim Strickland of BioSource International

133,788—David Kersey of Kersey & Associates, Inc.

132,828—Gene McQueen of the Cameron Craig Group

East South Central

144,879—Daniel L. Williams, CPC of The Williams Company

107,674—Ken Nunley of 7 Solutions USA

106,398—Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc.

80,321—Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates

80,286—Pamela Ratz DeVille, CPC/CIR of Managed Medicaid Services

West South Central

335,902—Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

109,935—Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates

104,889—Travis Jones of Career Development Partners

86,791—Greg Downs of Downs Associates

66,175—Carolyn Barcus of Barcus Associates

Mountain

97,850—Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

67,077—Steve Bret Jensen of Superior Search Consultants, Inc.

62,893—Ram Kola of Stewart Cooper & Coon

56,913—Thomas Edwards of Front Line Solutions, LLC

47,749—Marty Stan of Samaritan Technical Professional

We’d like to congratulate ALL of our Regional Award winners for 2012, and we wish them continued success in Top Echelon Network in 2013!

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Now that we’ve announced the Top 10 recruiters in Top Echelon Network for 2012, let’s move on to the Regional Award winners.  (Awards are fun, are they not?)

For the purposes of this award, we break the country up into nine different regions, and the Regional Awards are based upon the Frequent Placer Program (FPP) points that Preferred Member recruiters earn during the course of the calendar year.

Members can earn FPP points in a variety of ways, starting with making split placements.  They can also earn them for telephone interviews, face-to-face interviews, and meeting other Preferred Member recruiters in person.

Below are the winners of five of the nine regions within Top Echelon Network for 2012.  The top five recruiters in each region are listed, along with the number of FPP points they earned.  The top recruiter in each region will receive an award at the 2013 National Convention in St. Petersburg, Fla. in April.

Which reminds me . . . have you registered for the convention yet?  Sign up now during Early Bird Registration.  (This is our 25th anniversary convention, so you can believe it will be one of our best events ever.)

Below are the winners in five of the Network’s nine regions for 2012.  The winners of the other four regions will be announced next week:

Pacific

101,839—Gail Williams of Williams Recruiting, Inc.

83,648—David Wood of The David Wood Company

71,365—Debbie Winkelbauer of Apple & Assoc. Inc.

53,450—Hani Mussa of KnowPeople, Inc.

35,802—Bob Moore of Computer Recruiters, Inc.

West North Central

115,167—Matt Scheihing of J. Miles Personnel Services

100,636—Bob Ferris of Ferris & Associates, LLC

62,386—Larry Baker of Computer Careers

57,645—Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

52,871—Twanda DeBorde of CMD and Associates Executive Search

East North Central

314,216—Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

140,834—Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, LLC

134,032—David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

127,258—Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group, Inc.

126,870—Karen Akbal-Sturgeon of KLA Industries

New England

120,858—Richard Connors of Vista Technology

90,933—Eric Berg of JN Adams & Associates, Inc.

61,375—Joe Miglizzi, CPC of Perspective

49,826—Rob Spaulding of Spaulding Associates

45,228—John Barry of ITech Consulting Partners, LLC

Middle Atlantic

78,017—Wendy Johnson of Professionals Incorporated

73,130—Denise Milano Sprung of JA Pharma, Inc.

69,714—Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

69,647—Lawrence T. Ploscowe of EXEK Recruiters, Ltd.

64,529—Kerry Boehner of KOB Solutions, Inc.

Be sure to check next week’s issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog for the rest of our Regional Award winners for 2012!

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Welcome to perhaps the least-surprising blog post in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  (Or perhaps so far this year.  Or maybe ever.)

That’s because Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group has won the “Recruiter of the Month” numerous times during 2012, and he also won three of the four “Recruiter of the Quarter” awards (he was second in the fourth quarter).

So it should come as NO surprise that he was the Top-Producing Recruiter in Top Echelon Network during 2012.  (Cameron was also the Network’s Top-Producing Recruiter in 2011, and here’s the proof.)

However, there are some new names in the Top 10, as well as some familiar ones.  Besides Cameron, repeat performances were turned in by Sean Napoles, Jim Strickland, and Judy Kaplan.  Those recruiters in the Top 10 for 2012 who were not there the previous year include Maria Hemminger, Georgette Sandifer, Marc Tappis, David Kersey, Richard Connors, and Chuck Szajkovics.

Congratulations to all of these recruiters on a great 2012 to even more awards, accolades, and placements in 2013!

Below is the complete list of the Top 10 Producers Overall for 2012:

1st—Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

2nd—Sean Napoles, CPC of Career Brokers, Inc.

3rd—Maria Hemminger of MJ Recruiters, LLC

4th—Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

5th—Jim Strickland of BioSource International

6th—Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search

7th—David Kersey of Kersey & Associates, Inc.

8th—Richard Connors of Vista Technology

9th—Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.

10th—Judy Kaplan of Prof’l Recruiting Consultants

We’d like to congratulate all of these recruiters and thank them for their hard work and dedication as Preferred Members of our Network.  Their efforts are greatly appreciated, and we certainly wish them even more success in the future.

We’ll be publishing the winners of other 2012 awards in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog.  (In fact, we have other award winners in THIS issue!  We don’t like to waste any time.)

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You know who the “Recruiter of the Month” is.

You know who the “Recruiter of the Quarter” is.

Now’s time for the “Highest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter” . . . and as it turns out, that placement was the result of the Top Echelon Network’s MEGA Database!

The MEGA Database is a tool that allows recruiters to search through the default resumes of other Preferred Member recruiters who also use Big Biller.  This search will not only show you “Who Works What,” but it will also show you “Who Has What”—in other words, what (or who) other recruiters have in their database.

The MEGA Database holds tremendous power and potential for Preferred Member recruiters and Big Biller users.  If used properly, it can increase recruiters’ ability to source candidates for their open job orders, thus allowing them to fill those orders more quickly.

That power and potential was realized for the Preferred Member recruiters below, who made “The Largest Split Placement Fee of the Quarter” with the MEGA Database!

For more information about the placements and cash-in totals associated with these recruiters, please login to the Members’ Area and view the placement details associated with their profile.

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HIGHEST SPLIT PLACEMENT FEE OF THE QUARTER
Jay Canowitz of Ives & Associates, Inc. and Frank Chavira of HG Arias & Associates

This placement was for a HR Business Director.  Canowitz was the job order recruiter, and Chavira was the candidate recruiter.  The action causing this split placement was listed as, “Regular phone communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter in my specialty area.”

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SECOND PLACE
Job order recruiter: Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting
Candidate recruiter: Chuck Szajkovics of Bulldog Recruiters, Inc.
Position title: Plant Manager

THIRD PLACE
Job order recruiter: Michael Petras of Michael Petras Recruiting
Candidate recruiter: Ken Nunley of 7 Solutions USA
Position title: VP of Operations

FOURTH PLACE
Job order recruiter: Cindy Andrew Cordell of Corporate Resources, LLC
Candidate recruiter: Paul Johnson of Paul Johnson & Associates
Position title: Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis

FIFTH PLACE
Job order recruiter: Terri Conroy, CPC of Executive Search Associates
Candidate recruiter: Russ Lloyd of Cube Management
Position title: Chief Financial Officer

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Our criteria for these recognition awards:

Top Echelon Network is a split placement network.  As such, we place an emphasis on split placements, and that emphasis constitutes the basis of our criteria for these recognition awards.  We determine the quarterly award winners based upon two factors, 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

In other words, the number of split placements that recruiters make is our first consideration.  In the event of a tie, the cash-in total earned from those split placements is the deciding factor and serves to break the tie.  Obviously, the recruiter with more cash-in dollars in the event of a tie is the recruiter who wins the recognition award.

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