Top Echelon Network provides the recruiter with sophisticated software tools as well as good old-fashioned networking connections, that help the recruiter fill the employer’s job assignment in an expedient fashion. The recruiter’s services are free to job seekers because the recruiter is paid by the employer.

Member recruiters of Top Echelon Network are individually owned and operated businesses. Each office determines their own success by their ability to match an employer’s needs. It’s that simple. You will find no other group of recruiters in the world that are more result-oriented and more capable of filling tough search assignments (both contract and direct)!

The single most significant value proposition passed on to members, their staff and their clients

· For Members
Top Echelon was founded on the premise of helping recruiters make split placements. While we still facilitate split placements today, we are here to provide recruiters with a world-class network of like-minded recruiters, and to help them achieve their bottom-line goals. We exist to provide recruiters with world-class recruiting tools including software, networking, training, etc., at affordable prices for smaller firms.

· For Staff
Membership with Top Echelon essentially provides the firm's owner with "extra staff" whom he can turn to for answers to his everyday business concerns. Thirty seven percent of Top Echelon Members have been recruiting for more than 16 years, and can provide true mentoring support for their peers. This mentoring and sharing attitude is a definite advantage of being a part of a network. Staff members find that they have a plethora of viable resources available to help them in their everyday tasks.

· For Clients
Membership with Top Echelon helps give our Members instant credibility with their clients in that they have a network of hundreds of recruiters at their fingertips who can provide them with access to hundreds of thousands of candidates, as well as many years of experience and mentoring.

Profile of a member
Top Echelon Preferred Members are independent recruiters, and their average office size is two recruiters per office. According to a recent Member poll, almost 58% of Top Echelon Members work out of their homes. Top Echelon recruiters specialize in industries such as IT, engineering and manufacturing, telecom, health care, sales and marketing, and others.

Marketing messages
Top Echelon helps recruiters make placements by providing tools to facilitate the processes.
such as: Big Biller® Online recruiting system, Big Biller® Desktop recruiting software, an online Member's Area for sharing candidate and job order information, job order posting to approximately 6,000 career sites, split- and non-split placement opportunities, customized recruiting Web site design, an Online Discussion Forum for networking and recruiting solutions, an Internet Candidate Pool with hundreds of thousands of "passive" Internet candidates for placement, twice-a-year conventions, newsletters, training, and more.

Leader bio
Kappel obtained an engineering degree from Ohio University in 1980, and he began his career in the Nuclear Equipment Division of Babcock & Wilcox as a software and process engineer. He founded Top Echelon Network in 1988 and Top Echelon Contracting in 1992 to help small- and medium-sized recruiting firms make permanent and contracting placements.