Top Echelon Network Policy 10
Issue: Sharing Top Echelon Network candidates or job orders with non-Members or additional offices
Date: 02/20/91; Revised: 2/23/07
Top Echelon Network Preferred Members are prohibited to "in any way" share another Member’s candidate or job order information with any recruiters that are not Members of Top Echelon Network without the prior approval of the originating agency. Failure to comply with this policy will result in immediate dismissal from the Network, regardless of reason or circumstance! Your dismissal will be made public in the Network’s newsletter.
Additional
office
Top Echelon Network Members interested in sharing Top Echelon Network
candidates, Top Echelon Network job orders or Top Echelon Network recruiter
information with an additional office of mutual ownership must establish that
office as a "second office" with Top Echelon Network. Sharing Top
Echelon Network information with this office without first registering this
office with Top Echelon Network as a "second office" is a violation
of Policy #10.
Top Echelon Network Members with multiple offices will be asked to prove that the ownership of each office location is truly owned by the same entity (e.g., same company name, stock certificates, partnership contracts, tax returns, etc.). Please be informed: This policy is genuinely intended to help Top Echelon Network Members who have recruiters in multiple office locations. Top Echelon Network will terminate the Memberships of any Members who falsely claim their two offices are owned by the same entity in the attempt to reduce their Top Echelon Network rate.
Spirit of this Policy
To protect the integrity of Top Echelon Network, we
must ensure that all Members feel comfortable sharing their very best candidates
and job assignments with their Members. If these Members were to feel that their
candidates might "leak off" the Network, they will stop sending their
good candidates to Top Echelon Network.
If any Top Echelon Network Member sends any Top Echelon Network resumes (or similar information) outside of Top Echelon Network without prior consent of the originating agency, their membership will be terminated immediately, regardless of reason. We are taking this posture because all Top Echelon Network Members have the responsibility to protect their Members’ resumes and job orders. Our experience shows us that once caught, the "offending recruiter" will say, "It was an honest mistake," or "I was meaning to get the other recruiter's permission," or "I wasn't aware of the Network’s policy," or "I had good intentions and was going to tell the originating agency," or "I thought I could send Top Echelon Network resumes to our second office in Poughkeepsie," or . . . Even if this was an "honest mistake," this is a mistake that will cost you your Top Echelon Network Member status and your reputation.