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At Northeast Indiana Talent Attraction, Inc. (NEITA), we consult and partner with organizations needing to recruit out of town talent to Northeast Indiana, providing expert, personalized concierge recruiting and relocation services. We sell the community while employers focus on the job, career, and company or practice.
Our innovative business model provides a competitive advantage for businesses, competing for top talent, significantly reducing the amount of time and money it can take without this value-added service. By working hard to accelerate the assimilation of the newly hired employees into our community, we make a significant impact on improved retention and reduced turnover for our clients.
Northeast Indiana Talent Attraction, Inc. aims to better our community, companies and lives through a unique, white-glove approach to recruitment. Our process facilitates important dialog with candidates – uncovering answers to consideration questions on the job and the community.
NEITA partners with Northeast Indiana companies and organizations to help them acquire top talent by filling in the gaps between the company and the potential candidate. Through our white-glove recruitment approach, we ensure companies put their best foot forward, through this competitive advantage. It works, and candidates cannot believe what a fantastic service their potential company has given them.
Our team connects with potential candidates to learn their needs and expectations when considering a new community. From there, we personally welcome the candidate to Northeast Indiana, taking them on a VIP experience of the area and providing endless support throughout the entire consideration and relocation process.
NEITA partners with companies and offers support to potential candidates to create connections that build stronger organizations and better lives. We do this by helping candidates answer critical questions in considering if the job and the community are a good fit for them and their family.
Recruitment For Businesses
With the region’s need for more than 35,000 jobs requiring a four-year degree or more, we sell the community to recruits while employers focus on the job, career, and company or practice. We believe talent attraction is critical to growing our region’s economy. To this end, we champion everything northeast Indiana has to offer, creating customized tours based on the prospective candidate’s needs and interests, allowing them to see what life here looks like in all aspects – work, life, and play. Once a candidate accepts the offer, our team fills in the gaps between employer and candidate – offering continuous acclimation support to alleviate some of that stress that can come with major life changes. This allows them to hopefully feel much more settled by their first day on the job.
When a new career opportunity presents itself, there’s a lot to consider not only with the job and the company but in deciding if the community is a good fit for you and your family. Can I see myself thriving in Fort Wayne? Will my family be happy here? Are there activities that suit my interests? Companies and organizations partner with NEITA to ensure candidates have all of the information and resources provided to them to help answer those critical questions. Our team aims to be the candidate’s first friend in Northeast Indiana – learning their needs and expectations in a community and creating a personalized VIP tour of the area. Once a candidate accepts an offer, our team provides on-going acclimation support, so the candidate and their family are happily settled by the first day on the job.
White-Glove Concierge
Service for Candidates
Whether you’re a company looking for competitive edge with recruitment, or a candidate considering relocating to Northeast Indiana for career opportunities, you can trust our team to work alongside you to provide you with the support you need.
Whether you’re a company looking for competitive edge with recruitment, or a candidate considering relocating to Northeast Indiana for career opportunities, you can trust our team to work alongside you to provide you with the support you need.
NEITA is a team of local professionals, many of whom have relocated to Northeast Indiana. We understand the overwhelming stresses that comes with the consideration process. We’re here to help – we are well-versed and knowledgeable of our region’s opportunities, lifestyles, and communities, and culture. By working with candidates and aiding before, during, and after the process, our goal is to ultimately increase job acceptance and retention in NE Indiana— saving our employer clients money and time, and creating better lives for the relocating new hires we support.
Lynn Reecer is the Founder and President of Northeast Indiana Talent, Inc. Known in the community as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, connector, and community advocate, Northeast Indiana Talent Attractions, Inc. is an extension of Lynn’s belief in the region and its mission to attract top talent and improve quality of life. As a serial entrepreneur, Lynn is consistently the leader in the area for new and innovative approaches to business; she owns three companies, including Brookwood Cabinet Co., supplying custom and semi-custom, high-quality cabinetry, counters, and hardware, as well as Reecer Properties. Lynn started Reecer Properties in 2010 as a boutique real estate firm based in Fort Wayne, and Syracuse, IN. She and her team’s great success in real estate is credited to a team business model of functional experts providing white-glove service and exceptional sales results for their clients.
In 2019, Encore Sotheby’s International Realty acquired Reecer Properties, allowing Lynn to focus her attention on her team, her clients, and her growing businesses. In 2019 Lynn earned the SRES (Seniors Real Estate Specialist) designation, held by only 1% of Realtors nationwide. SRES® designees have unparalleled training and experience in serving seniors (50+) with their real estate needs.
As part of her commitment to bettering the community, Lynn co-founded the Aboite New Trails, Inc. Under Lynn’s leadership, Aboite New Trails raised over $12M and built 20 miles of new bicycle and pedestrian trails throughout southwest Allen County. In 2010, Lynn led the merger to form The Fort Wayne Trails, which now boasts a 100+ mile trail system that serves over 300,000 residents and visitors. During this time, Lynn was awarded Citizen of the Year by the city of Fort Wayne for her contributions and work aiming to improve the city.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Lynn earned her B.S. in Marketing from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Lynn married Dr. Mark Reecer and then moved to his native Fort Wayne, where they raised their three children in the community. Today Lynn and Mark are empty nesters who love the sandy beaches of Naples, FL, and a great round of golf, followed by evenings with friends and family.
Karen McMahon is the Sr. Director of Operations for Northeast Indiana Talent Attraction, Inc. and owner of Pure Potential, LLC consulting, focused on helping companies create exceptional processes and experiences for their teams. Karen is dedicated to helping companies, candidates, and employees feel welcome and expected. Karen had a successful 23-year career with Nordstrom, a Fortune 500 company and voted 100 Best Companies to Work For, 20 years in a row. During that tenure, Karen started on the sales floor, serving customers, working her way to Corporate in Seattle as a regional buyer, then one of the first national buyers for Nordstrom. Karen then moved into HR and training, and was an integral education and execution partner for every major Merchandising technology roll out in the company.
She is fluent in merchandising and IT, with the ability to translate the needs of merchants, as platforms were continually evolving with the ever-changing world of retail. Karen received numerous awards and recognition, including the coveted Customer Service All-Star, Inverted Pyramid Award for Servant Leadership, as well as Innovation Award for her work creating the Merchandising & Planning Internship, Merchant in Training, and Interim Staff programs for the entire company.
After retiring from Nordstrom in 2016, Karen worked for National Outdoor Retailer, REI, creating, implementing and managing change for merchandising systems and processes for their buying organization. In 2018, her husband was recruited to Fort Wayne and after 18 years in Seattle, WA, they made the move across the country, back to Indiana.
Coincidentally, Karen attended Indiana University, where she earned her B.S. Degree in Merchandising, but had never been to Fort Wayne before the move. When she’s not creating, innovating, or coaching & mentoring, you’ll most likely find Karen on a sports field somewhere cheering on her two boys, practicing yoga, or baking. Karen and family are huge sports fans and have been road tripping around the Midwest and Southeast to see family and friends, and take in all kinds of adventures.
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