Collector - May 2015

RECOGNITION

Northwest Collectors Honored as Employer of Choice Employees from Northwest Collectors recently honored the company, an ACA member in Missoula, Mont., for its cooperative work environment and efforts to keep morale high by nominating it for a 2015 Job Service Employers’ Council Employer of Choice Award.

The Missoula Job Service Employers’ Council (JSEC) selected the company for the award, in the category of businesses with less than 25 employees, based on the six nominations.

The JSEC awards recognize businesses in the Missoula community that create great workplaces, innovative workforce solutions for training, and have employees who are engaged and motivated.

“We were impressed that communication was a common theme among all the nominations and that staff mentioned that you value your relationships with them and invest time and energy to help them feel valued, heard and supported,” Missoula JSEC President John Mikkelson wrote in a letter to Northwest Collectors President Paul Heihn.

According to the letter, employees nominated the company because they appreciate benefits such as flexible schedules, the option to leave early on Fridays, holiday parties and having fresh fruit, coffee and snacks available at work.

SCHOLARSHIPS

California Unit Educational Foundation Issues
College Scholarships

for second place. The finalists are Alissa
Gunter in first place and Kristin Dinelli
and Max Jones in second place.
The California Association of Collectors Educational Scholarship Foundation
presented scholarships to three
outstanding high school seniors on
March 23.

The students submitted essays on “The Importance of Establishing and Maintaining Good Financial Credit During Your College Years.” A team of 20 volunteer readers worked through hundreds of essays in a double-elimination-style process to select the three finalists. The finalists presented their essays to the attendees at the foundation’s annual scholarship presentation banquet.

The judges selected the three finalists
and, for the first time in the 10-year
history of the scholarship, there was a tie

California Association of Collectors President Patrick Collins, second place finalist Kristin Dinelli, second place finalist Max Jones, first place finalist Alissa Gunter and California Association of Collectors Immediate Past President Matt Logan.

RECOGNITION

ACA Member Recognized by In Business Magazine
Tim Haag, State Collection Service Inc.’s director of client services, was
recently honored as one of Madison’s 40
outstanding professionals under 40 by In
Business Magazine.
Haag was recognized with other
professionals at an event hosted by the
magazine on March 5 in Madison, Wis.
Haag has embraced a leadership role in
his family’s firm, which his grandfather,
Hilding Haag, started in 1949.

He overcame challenges growing up
and worked through being diagnosed with a
learning disability to successfully complete
his college education at Northern Michigan
University.