$41,400 Fee Tops Recent TE Network Placements

There are some big recruiting fees in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

There is, of course, the largest split fee of the week. That honor goes to Jeff Katz of JSK Recruiting and Thomas Trese of Tom Trese Networking, LLC. Jeff and Thomas placed a Procurement Packaging Manager to earn a fee of $41,400 at 23%!

In addition, of the 12 split placements listed below, 10 of them commanded fees of $20K or more. That’s roughly $10K per member (or more), even after Top Echelon’s 6% brokerage fee.

And who couldn’t use $10K right now? Everybody could use it, that’s who, so let’s maximize the resources of TE Network and make more placements!

As a friendly neighborhood reminder, here is the information that we publish with our placements:

• Names of the trading partners involved (with their profile photos, when available)
• Job title
• Overall placement fee (before TE Network’s 6% brokerage fee, of course)
• Fee percentage

Please note that the placements listed below reflect deals finalized in TE Network for the period from June 30 through July 14, 2025.

Remember, if you don’t want information related to your split placements published in The Pinnacle, please send an email to marketing@topechelon.com to that effect.

Congratulations to everybody below for the split placements they made in TE Network!

This Week’s Split Placements

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Job recruiter: Pat Batchelor of Engineering Search Partners

Candidate recruiter: Sara Alexandroff of Sterling St. James, LLC

Job title: PES – SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $29,025

Fee percentage: 27%

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Job recruiter: Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Paul Danowski of Grace Search Service, Inc.

Job title: EH&S SPECIALIST

Overall placement fee: $21,250

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: James Grayem of Jamie Graham

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: INFECTION PREVENTIONIST

Overall placement fee: $24,750

Fee percentage: 15%

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Job recruiter: Robert Litton of Litton Resource Group

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: BREAST BIOPSY MAMMOGRAPHER

Overall placement fee: $20,160

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Clint Martz of A to Z Search Group

Candidate recruiter: Gary Elias of Elias Associates, Inc.

Job title: SAFETY ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $23,750

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Kristy Staggs of Byrnes & Rupkey, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Rich Grunenwald of Advisory and Consulting Services, LLC

Job title: WELDING SUPERVISOR

Overall placement fee: $17,680

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Teresa Pernini of Pernini Legal, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Job title: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL TITLE INSURANCE UNDERWRITER

Overall placement fee: $14,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Connie Dorigan of Dorigan & Associates

Candidate recruiter: Steve Kohn of Affinity Executive Search, Inc.

Job title: FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $27,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Nick Stoia, CPC of ASAP Search

Candidate recruiter: David Manns of Access Staffing

Job title: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST

Overall placement fee: $20,900

Fee percentage: 22%

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Job recruiter: Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Tish Stanton of Triad Consulting, LLC

Job title: PRODUCT ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $22,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Doug Boyce of Priority One Search

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: OPERATIONS/MANUFACTURING MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $28,750

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Jeff Katz of JSK Recruiting

Candidate recruiter: Thomas Trese of Tom Trese Networking, LLC

Job title: PROCUREMENT PACKAGING MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $41,400

Fee percentage: 23%

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If you’re a newer TE Network member and you’d like to enjoy more success in our recruiter network, then I encourage you to contact Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

You can do so by calling 330.595.1742 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.