Since when is 13 a lucky number? Well, since now. That’s because we have 13 TE Network split placements in this issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

TE Network members Amy Chapman of Key People Staffing and and Francesca Fidanzi of MedTeam Staffing, Inc. certainly think it’s lucky. (Or at the very least, fortuitous.) Amy and Francesca played a TPM Maintenance Manager to earn a split placement fee of $36,875 at 25%!

But wait, there’s more luck . . . or skill . . . however you’d like to frame it. Congratulations are also in order for both Aaron Curley of EQV Talent and Rebecca Nutt of Agency 8. As you can see below Aaron and Rebecca recently made their first split placement in TE Network!

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 May 18 through May 31, 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: Robert Buss of Impact Solutions, Inc.

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

Job title: SENIOR MANAGER OF ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS

Overall placement fee: $27,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Travis Jones of Career Development Partners

Candidate recruiter: Aaron Curley of EQV Talent

Job title: HR MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $28,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Rebecca Nutt of Agency 8

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SALES

Overall placement fee: $13,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Pat McGue of Mackie Search, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: ENGINEERING MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $30,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Robert Litton of Litton Resource Group

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: NURSE PRACTITIONER – PSYCHIATRY

Overall placement fee: $20,850

Fee percentage: 15%

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Job recruiter: Hilda Fourie of Systems Recruiters, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: CYBER SECURITY SPECIALIST

Overall placement fee: $16,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Alan Daum of Alan N Daum & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Brad Dodge of iLocatum Recruiting

Job title: SYSTEMS ENGINEER – PLC

Overall placement fee: $16,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Amy Chapman of Key People Staffing

Candidate recruiter: Francesca Fidanzi of MedTeam Staffing, Inc.

Job title: TPM MAINTENANCE MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $36,875

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Stephanie Stephens of KESST Global Network

Candidate recruiter: Katherine Mastantuono of The KPM Group

Job title: OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Overall placement fee: $9,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Chuck Cole of Cole Professional Search

Candidate recruiter: Josh Slimmer of Jericho HR Group

Job title: HR OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Overall placement fee: $22,500

Fee percentage: 25%

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

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource Recruiters

Job title: DESIGN ENGINEER

Overall placement fee: $17,000

Fee percentage: 25%

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Job recruiter: Pam Petitpren of PRA USA

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: ROBOTICS & VISION ENGINEER – FIELD APPLICATIONS RESEARCH

Overall placement fee: $17,000

Fee percentage: 20%

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Job recruiter: Sherry Umpleby of Innovative Search Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Michael Stuck of Gables Search Group

Job title: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

Overall placement fee: $19,889.72

Fee percentage: Flat

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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.

If you’re a member of Top Echelon’s recruiting network, then you want great recruiter relationships. After all, you’ve made split placements a part of your desk, have you not?

Once upon a time, we ran a segment in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog titled “‘Comments’ and Compliments.” In this segment, we highlighted specific TE Network recruiters and the placements they’ve made together. To do so, we used the comments that those recruiters submitted with their Completed Placement Forms.

As you might imagine, trends begin to emerge over time. That’s because certain characteristics almost always lead to success.

In fact, we’ve gathered those certain characteristics together in this blog post. Based upon placements made in TE Network, below are seven characteristics of great recruiter relationships:

#1—Collaboration

The recruiters involved have a desire to make split placements and a desire to work together in a collaborative fashion.

#2—Cooperation

The recruiters may have a desire to make splits and work together initially, but that desire must compel them to fully participate in the “give and take” needed for a successful relationship.

#3—Responsiveness

Time kills all deals. That means time is money. That’s why the best relationships include trading partners who respond and who respond quickly.

#4—Communication

It’s not just the frequency with which you communicate, but also how well you communicate that makes a big difference.

#5—Motivation

This speaks to a sense of urgency. If hiring managers must have a sense of urgency, then trading partners must have it, as well.

#6—Niche knowledge

When a recruiter knows their niche thoroughly, that allows them to act quickly to make the correct decisions regarding people and situations.

#7—Candidate assessment

The ability to identify top talent will always give recruiters an edge, no matter if it’s a split placement scenario or a full-fee situation.

Do YOU want more great recruiter relationships in Top Echelon’s split network?

Then contact Top Echelon Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS at 330.595.1742 or via email at drea@topechelon.com.

In the pages of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, I typically dispense advice and offer best practices for members of TE Network. These usually deal with your interactions with other Network members as you strive to make split placements.

This week in The Pinnacle, I have yet more advice, but it’s of a different kind. Specifically, I want to talk about Top Echelon’s applicant tracking system for agency recruiters, called . . . TE Recruit, formerly known as Big Biller!

Although the majority of Network members use our ATS (around 70%%), there are still members who do not use it. There are many benefits for TE Network members who also use TE Recruit to run their desks, mainly the integration that exists between TE Recruit and the TE Network split placement software.

In interests of convenience and brevity, I’ve listed three of those benefits below, elaborating upon each in bullet-point form:

#1—Better recruitment efforts control

• Streamlined applicant management: The candidates arrive from ‘your’ agency’s recruiting efforts and job board, from TE Partner submissions, TEN Feed nominations, and Network Candidate requests directly into the Candidate Inbox for your ease of qualifying.
• Your candidate inventory is effortlessly current and remains in one place for your convenience. Allowing you, at the click of a button, to share them to Network Split Jobs and to respond to TE Network partner requests of your candidates for their jobs.
• No duplication of efforts while working on searches.

#2—Marketing power

• The TE Network Jobs Feed allows you the marketing power of upwards of 2,000 jobs on your site at any time to attract candidates. In addition, you can turn your surplus of resumes into interested active candidates for split jobs on your TEN Jobs Feed.

#3—Increasing placement revenue

• Entering all of your jobs into one system makes it easy for you to advertise them on your agency’s Job Board, the Network Split Jobs, and the TE Network Jobs Feed.
• Visibility of your jobs to your TE Network partners increases the probability of filling those roles more quickly for your clients.

In addition, Top Echelon updates both TE Recruit and the TE Network split placement software on a consistent basis to better serve your needs in an ever-changing world. If you have any questions about our recruiting software or your TE Network membership, I encourage you to contact me.

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

Top Echelon Director of Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS recently conducted a special TE Network Training Thursday webinar titled, “How to Turn TE Network Alerts into More Placements.”

You may have attended this free webinar on Thursday, May 14. On the other hand, you may not have been in attendance.

Regardless, we have the recorded version of the webinar, which I am presenting to you now. (The recording is also located in the Top Echelon Help Center.)

We at Top Echelon are continually working to make the resources that we provide to our customers better, and this is yet more proof!

Below is the official description of this training video:

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Watch this TE Recruit training video!

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Remember to check The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog every week for more updates regarding Top Echelon software improvements and upgrades.

If you have any questions about how you can maximize your TE Network membership, please contact 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.

I’m pleased to announce the Virtual Core Group (VCG) meeting schedule for the month of June!

For those of you who don’t know, TE Network recruiters share the following information during Virtual Core Group teleconference call meetings:

• Hot job orders and candidates
• Information about the activity they’re seeing in the marketplace and/or in their niche
• Ideas for increased production on their desks and within their agencies

These are the activities that lead most directly to making more split placements in TE Network.

So that is why I’m inviting—or in other words, strongly encouraging—you to attend one of June’s Virtual Core Group meetings. Below is the complete VCG schedule for June, including the industries involved and the time that each meeting will be held. (Note: all times are Eastern.)

Wednesday, June 10:

• 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. — Manufacturing & Engineering
• 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. — Accounting & Finance

Thursday, June 11:

• 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. — Law & Legal Services
• 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. — Construction/MEP/Civil Engineering

You can join the meeting to which you belong by accessing the information listed below.

Google Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/qba-qdic-kou

Below is the agenda for each Virtual Core Group meeting:

1. Welcome
2. Roll call of the members
3. I will share the latest software updates for both TE Network and the Top Echelon recruiting software (also known as TE Recruit).
4. Members will share their hot jobs with corresponding group discussion.
5. I will direct a software and Network protocol Q&A session to close the call.

It is my goal that this agenda will help you take away more from the meeting than just hot jobs and/or candidates. Hopefully, it will help make you more knowledgeable in terms of the Top Echelon community.

If you’d like to join one of the groups listed above or if you’d like to start a new group, please contact me.

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