You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she writes. Case in point, when Angelia Emanie calls herself a “huge Nerd” you kind of have to believe her. It’s enough to describe yourself as a huge anything, but to capitalize the N in nerd just goes to show you how much she means it. When not playing video games or watching sci-fi movies with her husband, Angelia spends her time moving up the corporate ladder at KLS Financial Services. Read on to learn more about Angelia, her ideal work environment, and why her glass is always half-full.
Name: Angelia Emanie
Current Role/Job Title: Senior Compliance Training & Revenue Specialist
Company: KLS Financial Services
Length of time at current company: 7 years
Length of time in industry: 12 years
How did you get your start in the industry?
I needed a job and got hired as a collector at a collection agency.
What is your career highlight so far?
Getting a promotion within three months of starting to work at KLS and then getting moved up multiple times to end up in the training role I’m in now.
When or how are you most productive?
When I can work in silence uninterrupted
Which industry professional do you admire most?
That is a very tough question … I honestly have a lot of people I love watching on AccountsRecovery.net webinars, but the first names to come to mind would be yourself (because you crack me up!) and Harry Strausser, Greg Ruffino, and LaDonna Bohling.
What is one thing you do better than everyone else?
I can rebut anything
What do you like most about this industry?
Watching a new hire blossom into a top-tier collector
What is one thing you wish you could change about this industry?
The new changes on credit reporting
If you weren’t in this industry, what would you be doing?
Software Development
Describe a typical work day
It depends on if I am training or not. If I’m not training I would be making collection calls, helping collectors with manager calls or difficult calls, reviewing calls, answering emails, and doing side-by-sides with my collection staff. If I am training – then I am spending all day with my new hire reviewing, shadowing, coaching, etc.
What is your guilty pleasure?
I love to play video games, card games, etc. with my husband and friends.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
You have the power to do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it and believe its possible. Power of positivity is the motto I live by.
What is one fact you’d like everyone in the industry to know about you?
I am a huge Nerd and love playing video games, card games, watching sci-fi fantasy movies with my best friend – my husband
Congrats on your accomplishments. You have worked hard and I’m happy to see you receiving your flowers.