Issue: Advertising another Top Echelon Network Member’s job order

Revised date: 09/03/1999; 09/19/2001; 9/9/2003

Please do not "advertise" or "post on the Internet" a Member’s Network job order on the Internet or in a print medium without their prior written permission. Do not advertise a Member’s Network job order without their prior written permission. In this context, advertising includes (but is not limited to) posting the job on the Internet;,putting the job in printed media, running the job on radio or television, etc.

Spirit of the Policy
Before the Internet became commonplace, Top Echelon Network Members would occasionally run advertisements for candidates in their local papers for other Top Echelon Network Members’ job orders. However, once the Internet became commonplace, some Top Echelon Network Members took the Network’s "OK to Advertise" job orders and started posting them on the Internet. As time went on, and more Members did this, it became apparent that it was causing three problems.

1. If the recruiter submitting the job order modified the job order, the modifications were not being re-posted by the recruiter doing the posting.
2. Some Preferred Members who were posting the "OK to Advertise" job orders were duplicating Top Echelon’s efforts on some sites, thus causing an individual job order to be posted two, three, four, or more times to the same sites. This caused all kinds of problems.
3. Some Preferred Members who were posting the "OK to Advertise" job orders to Internet sites were doing so with the intention of using the job orders as "bait" to collect candidates for themselves . . . and not really with the intention of making split placements.

In light of these problems, and knowing that very few Members desire to advertise their Members’ job orders in printed media, we have changed the definition and wording of the original "OK to Advertise" field. It now reads "Advertise Job Orber on the Internet." When Top Echelon advertises or posts a job order for you on the Internet, we track where it has been posted and when, and what responses you should receive and when. And, we give you the ability to de-select any of the sites that we typically post to.

When submitting a job order to Top Echelon Network, if you check the box that says:

Top Echelon will take your job order and post it to many job sites on the Internet.

Again, please be advised that if you wish to advertise or post the job orders of another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member on the Internet or in printed media, you must get that recruiter’s written permission before doing so and you must send a copy of the permission to Top Echelon Network. (This permission can take the form of either a letter or an email.) Furthermore, any Preferred Member who is posting another Preferred Member’s Network job orders on the Internet must notify that recruiter of all candidate nominations. This notification, in the form of a letter or email, must include the candidates’ contact information, and Top Echelon Network must receive a copy of the notification, as well.