Enjoying the Fall Season with TE Network Splits

Ah, the fall season (or autumn, if you prefer). Crisp weather, hot soup, pumpkin spice [insert your chosen food or beverage here] . . . what better way to enjoy the season?

I’ll tell you what better way: making placements, that’s what. Making placements is the best way to enjoy the fall season, and there are recruiters in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog who are doing just that.

Those recruiters include Anjela Mangrum of Mangrum Career Solutions, LLC and Victor Lopez of Resource One International. Anjela and Victor recently placed an Account Executive – Industrial Technology Solutions to earn a fee of $37,500 at 25%.

And that just so happens to represent the largest split fee of the week in TE Network . . . so now let’s drink/eat some pumpkin spice stuff to celebrate!

As a friendly neighborhood reminder, here is the information that we publish with our split 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 September 28 through October 4, 2026.

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.

Once again, congratulations to everybody below for the split placements they made in TE Network!

This Week’s Split Placements

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

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

Job title: WELDER

Overall placement fee: $11,232

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Brian Gruen of Gruen Search Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Dawn Belyeu-Long of NorthStar Career Directions

Job title: TEXTILE DESIGNER – RUG

Overall placement fee: $27,000

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Anjela Mangrum of Mangrum Career Solutions, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Victor Lopez of Resource One International

Job title: ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE – INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Overall placement fee: $37,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: David Wood, CPC of The David Wood Company

Candidate recruiter: Hani Mussa of Knowhirematch, LLC

Job title: LEAD PLANT OPERATOR

Overall placement fee: $25,376

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Michael Agen of New Solutions Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Steve Schroeder of Stratus Staffing

Job title: HOME CARE SALES ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Overall placement fee: $4,000

Fee percentage: Flat

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Job recruiter: Nathan Gruen of Gruen Search Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Lisa Vella Puff of L.V. Enterprises

Job title: SENIOR HOME TEXTILES DESIGNER

Overall placement fee: $17,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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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.