insideARM Announces 2008 Best Places to Work in Collections

insideARM today announced the winners of the first annual Best Places to Work in Collections award program. The contest was created and facilitated by insideARM.com and the Best Companies Group.

The survey and award program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in the accounts receivable management industry. The Best Places to Work in Collections list is made up of 25 companies divided into three size categories: Small (15-74 employees), Medium (75-249 employees) and Large (250+ employees).

A ranked list, complete with profiles of all of the winners, will be released in early 2009.

To be considered for participation, companies had to 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 or Vendor to the Collection Industry.

Companies from across the country entered the two-part survey process to determine the Best Places to Work in Collections. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Best Companies Group managed the overall registration, survey and analysis process and determined the final rankings.

“We are thrilled by the results in the inaugural year of the insideARM.com Best Places to Work in Collections program,” said Stephanie Eidelman, publisher of insideARM.com.  “We sincerely thank all of the ARM companies that participated in the program. The evaluation process was a rigorous one, ensuring that the winners are companies that are truly succeeding in their efforts to provide employment that is challenging, satisfying, and motivating to employees.”

For more information on the Best Places to Work in Collections program, visit www.BestPlacestoWorkCollections.com.

2008 Best Places to Work in Collections

(alphabetical order, no ranking)

• American Coradius International LLC (ACI)
• American Profit Recovery Inc.
• Apex Financial Management, LLC
• Brown & Joseph, LTD.
• Clovis & Roche, Inc.
• CMI, Credit Mediators Inc.
• CollectionCenter
• Conrad Acceptance Corporation & Conrad Credit Corporation
• CR Software, LLC
• Credit Protection Association, LP
• Crown Asset Management, LLC
• DCM Services, LLC
• Express Recovery Services, Inc.
• Financial Credit Network, Inc.
• General Service Bureau
• H & R Accounts, Inc.
• National Patient Account Services
• Peak5
• Premiere Credit of North America
• Professional Account Services, Inc.
• Resurgence Financial, LLC
• SoundBite Communications
• The CBE Group, Inc.
• The Northstar Companies
• The Sunrise Family of Companies

insideARM will be distributing the list of the winning companies, sorted by company size and ranking, in early February 2009.