A List of Recruiter Associations

I’m amazed to discover how many recruiting networks exist. While the Electronic Recruiting Exchange is certainly an important one, I know even they would agree that, just as no single career portal would suffice as the only place to post your jobs, there is no single recruiters’ portal that can cover all your recruiting networking needs. With the Internet making it as easy to find candidates around the world as it is around the corner, and fee-splitting becoming commonplace, it makes sense to link up with multiple recruiters’ networks. Another reason to join: such networks are also “pick-their-brain” resources. For example, you can usually find at least one recruiter targeting candidates in the same industry, function and even geographic area who has tried niche job site X that you’ve been considering, or knows a Boolean search string that would be perfect to find the elusive candidate type you need. Since many of them charge no membership fees or at least offer a free trial period membership, it’s a no-brainer to check them out. One advantage of the many local recruiter groups that populate the list below is that they usually hold live meetings where people can interact face-to-face, and guest experts often attend to present timely topics, immediately followed up by a Q&A session. At least for now, these are things that still work better in a live group setting than a virtual one. I have assembled a fairly comprehensive list of recruiter associations that should benefit you. If you know of other related groups I’m missing, please email them to glenn@recruiting-online.com.

Alliance of Medical Recruiters

American Staffing Association ? formerly the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services, ASA’s members are temp and perm staffing agencies.
Arizona Technical Recruiters Association ? Founded in October 1996, ATRA is a non-profit group of corporate technical recruiters, contract recruiters and HR service providers focusing on technical recruitment in IS and engineering.
Association of Executive Search Consultants ? AESC has about 125 member firms worldwide, placing senior-level candidates. (Also see National Association of Executive Recruiters below.)
Association of Financial Search Consultants
Canadian Technical Recruiters Network ? Founded in late 1997, CTRN holds regular meetings in Toronto, with Ottawa and Montreal chapters planned for the future.
Colorado Technical Recruiters’ Network ? Founded in 1994, this CTRN has over 350 recruiters as members. It hosts the TechConnect job fairs in summer and winter, and organizes a nationally known Annual Recruiting Conference.
Delaware Valley Technical Recruiters Network ? non-profit cooperative network of technical recruiting professionals.
DFW Recruiters Network ? Founded 1999, meets monthly in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area.
Electronic Recruiters Exchange ? In the Internet recruiting niche, this is the granddaddy, with the most active forums and most frequent and focused e-newsletters featuring content from their robust web site.
Houston High Tech Recruiters’ Network ? With over 200 members, HHTRN is the single largest and fastest growing technical recruiters organization in Texas.
Illinois Association of Personnel Services (also see Technical Recruiters Network below, for Chicago area).
Inter-City Personnel Associates ? network of hundreds of independently-owned staffing agencies who share job orders and resumes to split placement fees on a 50-50 basis (no commission charges by IPA).
International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment ? international group of senior level human resource executives, retained search professionals and consultants working on key issues in our field. Many major companies among their membership.
Insurance National Search, Inc. ? Like it sounds.
Minnesota Technical Recruiters Network ? Through networking, MNTRN provides mechanisms to control recruitment costs, principally in the IT arena. MNTRN is a chapter of the Technical Recruiters Network (see below).
National Association of Executive Recruiters ? Its members place senior-level candidates. (Also see Association of Executive Search Consultants above.)
National Association of Legal Search Consultants ? Like it sounds. (Also see National Insurance Recruiters Association below.)
National Association of Physician Recruiters ? Like it sounds.
National Association of Personnel Services ? Its members are permanent placement firms; see their state chapters list.
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations ? NAPEO oversees Professional Employer Organizations. PEOs aggregate the workforces of multiple companies and provide cost-effective solutions to the management and administration of the HR and employer risks of its clients. (The Employer Services Assurance Corporation, formerly the Institute for the Accreditation of Professional Employer Organizations, is NAPEO’s international counterpart, to provide financial bond backing to PEOs.)
National Insurance Recruiters Association ? Like it sounds. (Also see Insurance National Search above.)
National Personnel Associates
New Jersey Staffing Association ? Formed in 2000 through NJSA’s merger with the New Jersey Association of Temporary Services (NJATS), now comprising about 200 firms.
New Jersey Technical Recruiters Alliance ? Also see previous item.
New York Technical Recruiters’ Association
Northwest Recruiters Association ? Founded spring 1997, it has over 150 members in the Puget Sound area of Washington state.
Project S.A.M.E. ? The Staffing Alliance of Maryland Employers is an open forum for all Greater Washington DC area recruiters.
Project S.A.V.E. ? The Staffing Alliance of Virginia Employers is an open forum of corporate recruiters and employment representatives in the greater Washington DC area who meet periodically to discuss professional concerns, share recruiting needs, and exchange resumes of job seekers they wish to assist at no expense to either party.
Recruiters Alliance ? Limited to technical, sales and engineering; free. Focus on recruiting splits.
Recruiters Cafe ? a networking and split placement site for third-party recruiters and corporate hiring managers.
Recruiter’s Network ? Has good resources online; membership is completely free and has a very active listserv which has probably led to their 30,000+ registrants.
Recruiters Online Network ? newsletters, among many other services; membership $500/yr. (free trial available). Among the largest associations of recruiters, executive search firms and employment agencies, with 8,000+ members.
Southeast Employment Network ? Organized in Atlanta, GA, SEN is an organization of in-house recruiters and HR professionals; no employment agencies are members.
Split It ? Free to receive splits but pay $29 per candidate post. Over 1,200 members; part of ResumeBlaster.
Technical Recruiters Network ? Formed in 1986, TRN is a Chicago-based, not-for-profit organization. Membership consists of over 500 corporate technical recruiting professionals.
Top Echelon ? founded in the late 1980s, it’s the largest placement network with 2,500 recruiters in over 900 firms, generating $19.4 million in annual shared fees. Top Echelon has evolved to focus on Information Technology (IT), Engineering, and Manufacturing.
Washington Area Recruiters Network ? WARN is a organization of Washington, DC-area employment recruiters specializing in high-technology recruitment efforts.
Wisconsin Technical Recruiters Network ? WITRN was founded in 1999.

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