Best Places to Work
Our annual Best Places to Work in Collections program is open for registration!
Now in its fifth year, insideARM.com’s Best Places to Work contest recognizes the most positive workplace environments in our industry. Winners have enjoyed great benefits including enhanced reputation with creditors, morale boost, and recruiting support.
Compete against companies of your own size. No need to feel that you can’t measure up against the benefits and resources of a large company, or the family feeling of a small company. Rankings are determined within three size categories: small (15-74 employees), medium (75-249 employees) and large (250+ employees).
It works like this:
- Employers complete a questionnaire on workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems, benefits, and demographics. It can take about 8 hours to gather all of the info for this questionnaire – but hey, if it was totally simple, it wouldn’t produce meaningful results – and if you register now, you’ll have months to pull it together.
- Employees are asked an in-depth set of questions — you choose online or via paper format; either way it takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.
That’s it. Within about 6-8 weeks of completion, our partner, Best Companies Group, will produce a list of winners and we start to make announcements.
Rest assured insideARM staff does not have access to employee responses; Best Companies Group has no connection to the debt collection industry (with the exception of their role in this program). If your staff is …ahem…less than kind, nobody will know but you. But YOU should know!
Participating companies will receive a free one-page “Employer Benchmark Summary”, and will have the opportunity to purchase the full “Employee Feedback Report” that provides valuable data including a spreadsheet summarizing employee feedback, written employee comments, and industry benchmark information.
These reports offer incredibly valuable information at an unbelievably fair price, regardless of whether you are selected as a winner. The value in having a 3rd party conduct this survey is that you get candid information from your employees; your HR department could never gather this type of information. And if you chose to do it independently, you’d pay thousands of dollars.
Please, take advantage of this great opportunity to learn what your employees really think. After all, aren’t they the ones driving your revenue? If your staff is unhappy, do you think they are as productive as they could be, or that they are representing you and your clients as they should be?
Yes, it will require some time to complete the company portion of the survey, but it’s not due until mid- summer, so you’ve got plenty of time to deal with it if you get started now.
To see lists of winners from previous years, please click on the banners below.
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The Best Places to Work in Collections celebrates excellence among companies in three size categories: Small (15-74 employees), Medium (75-249 employees) and Large (250+ employees).
Best Places to Work in Collections is a two-part survey program. First, employers provide information on workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. Then, employees complete a survey that measures the employee experience.
The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Best Companies Group manages the overall registration, survey and analysis process and determined the final rankings. Still not sold? Learn more about the process.
To be eligible, companies must fulfill the following eligibility requirements:
- Be a for-profit or not-for-profit business
- Be a publicly or privately held business
- Have a facility in the United States
- Have at least 15 employees in the United States
- Must be in business a minimum of 1 year
- Must be a collection agency/collection law firm to participate
What Participants Have Said About The Program
The survey has been a great tool for us. It was very helpful to see what the concerns we have from employees and make it comfortable for them to voice their opinions. The feedback from the report has given us pinpoints to build from to make changes for our employees to stay the BEST place to work in collections.
Thank you,
Tara Turner
Customer Service Manager
Agency of Credit Control, Inc.
The report was used by our management team during our 2012 Strategic Planning meeting. Having the data accumulated for us, really gave us a great opportunity to look at the report and see what we are doing well and what we could improve on. The statistical data gave a quality overview and the written feedback from employees helped us drill down even more and make changes for 2012. We were proud to win the Best Place to Work in Collections for the third year in a row and also very satisfied with the data we received from the survey.
David Williams
Executive Vice President
Williams & Fudge, Inc.
Americollect knows that our employees love to come to work, but how do we tell our clients and those looking to become our clients that? The best way: someone else. InsideARM’s Best Place to Work in Collections did just that for us. It proved that people like coming to work at Americollect; and if they like their job, they will do better at it. This helped us to make additional sales and market to qualified candidates to come and be a part of our success.
We look forward to participating each year! Not only is this prestigious award helpful with sales and marketing, it is very useful in recruiting potential employees. But the best part about the process is the feedback provided, which is invaluable. We compare from year to year for improvement in areas where our staff mentioned even the smallest problem, and we hope it makes us a better company each year. For example, we have increased communications at company-wide meetings to make staff feel more involved in the overall success of our business. We have also implemented more leadership training programs to assist our managers. These are just a few of the improvements that have resulted from the “Best” program!
We love Best Places to Work because not only does it provide us valuable anonymous feedback from our team, it allows us to see where we rank among other collection agencies. Let’s face it – ours is not the easiest industry to recruit for, nor is it a popular job, so knowing we are doing all we can to make and keep American Profit Recovery a great place to work is key to our ownership and management team. I feel great pride each year when we hang our Best Places to Work award in our conference room. We get many comments from interviews and vendors who visit our offices, and many congratulations from our clients when they hear the news. We have participated and been ranked for three years now, and used the feedback we’ve received each year to make APR a little bit better of a place to work. We appreciate this program, the feedback it provides, and the acknowledgment of being one of the best.
General Service Bureau, Inc., has participated and won Best Places to Work in Collections in 2008 and 2010. What we have found valuable in our participation is identifying opportunities to improve how we share information with our staff and employee engagement – and it’s very important to retention. We take full advantage of marketing ourselves as winners – not only to prospective clients but in our recruitment efforts. Any company can tell job candidates they are a great place to work: GSB has the proof to back it up.
We certainly can recommend the Best Places to Work in Collections program and will be participating again this year. The program has been an affirmation of what we are doing well at Receivable Recovery Partners, LLC. You may think you’re doing right by your staff, but until you have access to honest, objective feedback, you don’t know! Based on the results, we know we are providing the best environment for our staff, which directly influences their work. The Best Places to Work in Collections program has been a benefit to our sales team as well – who doesn’t want to work with the “best”? Now we are contacted to work with an organization instead of the other way around. It is nice to be recognized and held as an industry standard.