The Pinnacle Society represents the best of the best. It is an honors organization for permanent placement recruiters. Formed in 1989 with the assistance and leadership of Tony Byrne and Ben Meador, to provide 75 of the top recruiters in the country a forum in which to discuss ideas about the recruiting industry. Membership requirements keep the talent fresh and hold the members to a very high standard of production. They are a non-profit, independent organization that exists for its own benefit. They are not affiliated with any particular trainer or organization such as NAPS or AESC.
Dedicated to the theme of excellence in recruiting, members of The Pinnacle Society are committed to an honest, ethical style of doing business and share a desire to raise, on a global level, the standards of the profession. Several Pinnacle Society members are trainers and have conducted presentations to recruiting firms both nationally and internationally, teaching others the qualities and techniques of top producers.
The Pinnacle Society is the US organization which recognizes the crème de la crème of the recruitment industry in America. Colin Cottell spoke to some of its members and asks whether it would work in the UK The US has the world's largest and most successful economy. With more than 146m people at work, one benefit of the country's economic success has been the development of a vibrant and thriving recruitment industry, with an annual turnover of $87bn. Combined with the US's entrepreneurial and 'can do' business culture, where aspiration and achievement are widely admired, it comes as little surprise that the country's recruitment industry has spawned an organization that epitomizes those characteristics. The Pinnacle Society was established in 1989 for those at the top of the recruitment profession. Nearly 20 years on, the society continues to thrive. Membership is limited to a select group of 75 recruiters. Pinnacle Society member, Jeff Hindman, chief executive officer of the Hindman Group, a search and selection firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri, says: "I have been in a lot of associations related to the recruitment industry, and Pinnacle is the best of the best, because they are big billers who have been successful in the business." And it's not just any old success. In order to be accepted in Pinnacle, individual recruiters have to bill in excess of $400,000 (£200,000) a year in permanent placings — for three years out of five. Pinnacle is indeed the home of the US recruitment industry's heavy hitters. Members are predominantly from boutique search companies, rather than the big high volumes agencies. According to Danny Sarch, president of the Pinnacle Society, the big recruiters discourage their staff from joining. "I suspect they fear that we will convince their better producers to go out on their own," suggests Sarch, who is also president of Leitner Sarch, a financial services industry search consultancy based in White Plains, New York.
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