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We're proud to celebrate our top performers

Every year, we recognize MRINetwork’s top-performing individuals and offices — those who have shown remarkable resilience, innovation, and leadership within the talent access industry.

The goal has always been to acknowledge the efforts of our people and to reward their commitment to excellence, no matter the circumstances. Whether held virtually or in-person, the Honor Awards highlight members’ outstanding achievements, celebrate the companies and careers these individuals have shaped, and inspire us all as a Network.

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Individual performance awards, including top account executives, rookies, and project coordinators, and recognitions for billings, contract staffing, and the producer of the decade.
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Office performance awards, such as overall growth, interoffice referrals, office entities of the year and of the decade, and the sought-after President’s Club, which honors the top 25% of all active and reporting offices in the Network.
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Other awards and recognitions, including office anniversaries, Person of the Year, and lifetime production and achievement awards.

Decade Recognition

MRINetwork is unique for its longevity. With 55+ years building companies and industries worldwide, many of our offices and their teams celebrate significant anniversaries as Network members. We recognize each decade from 10 through 40, with a special honors program for those celebrating 25 and 50 years with the Network.
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2021 Award Winners

2021 Winner

Kitte Carter
Management Recruiters of Tallahassee

The Alan R. Schonberg Lifetime Achievement Award

The MRINetwork Alan R. Schonberg Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2014 to recognize the exemplary contributions of individuals who, during the course of their careers, have unselfishly contributed their time and energy for the betterment of the MRINetwork community through their leadership, professionalism and integrity.

2021 Winner

Thavi Louanlavong
Siter-Neubauer & Associates

2021 Person of the Year

This award, as designed by a Representative Council, is given to the single MRINetwork member who has made the greatest contribution to the MRINetwork organization during the preceding year, a contribution that was truly exemplary, worthy of our recognition, gratitude and respect.
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Ring of Honor

Our Ring of Honor program, recognizing tenured offices and individuals, assures our clients and candidates that we stand for service and quality and that our time-tested professionals have the experience and knowledge to meet their needs. Our program includes both internal and public recognition for offices and individuals who have been in the business for 10, 15, 20 and 25 years with special awards and acknowledgement of their achievements at our annual international convention.
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Keys to Success

Consistency is my biggest key to success… It’s really just showing up and staying committed to your plan, committed to your desk, and committed to just being the best version of you that you can be every day – no matter the situation that you are in.

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Jessica Miller
Sr. Director RPO Sales
PrincetonOne (Princeton, NJ)

I am old school. Fall in love with your phone. It’s our phone time that drives the business. I know we have a lot of new, digital technology, but my team is still hammering the phones… And that is what got us here today.

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Thavi Louanlavong
President
Siter-Neubauer & Associates (Arlington, TX)

It’s just about perseverance. It’s about doing the things we all know to do; not being afraid to try new things. We’ve all gotten creative with how we do things — adding technology into play, adding digital branding into play — but not forgetting about the things that have worked over the last 50 years.

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Chris Heinz
Managing Partner
Westport One (St. Louis, MO)

The biggest thing last year was really making sure we retained our people. We continued to hire throughout the year, it was “unprecedented” as we heard over and over, but it was important to us to retain and continue to hire and grow.

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Hadley Gayles
President
Govig & Associates (Scottsdale, AZ)

Culture is important. Even in 2020, when we had months when nothing was happening, we enjoyed being around each other… You have to have a group of people who like each other, because you spend 40+ hours a week together.

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Amanda Sell-Sande
CEO
Julison Sell Search Team (Bellingham, WA)

Excuses are built on monuments and nothingness… You have to keep pushing forward. Find new ways – intuitive ways to build relationships with your clients. Even if it’s not a placement, if it’s just a conversation, I want to be their go-to guy.

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Christian Knox
Construction Recruiter
Harrison Group, Inc (Cedar Rapids, IA)

It’s just relationships, really. Being able to provide value to people, to human beings, without just trying to sell something. Being someone a client can come to and you can serve them with excellence. That’s what we pride ourselves on.

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Clay Malinovsky
Contract Staffing Lead
SAP & IT Recruiter, Magee Resource Group (Shreveport, LA)

The relationships, good will, and reputation we established made it easy for our clients to take that chance on us when they were out of the office and there was more risk involved with the hiring process.

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Executive Recruiter
The Bluestone Group (Raritan, NJ)

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    Our 2022 winners will be announced on...

    May 9 at United 2022

    Join us to celebrate at the Denim & Diamonds Honor Awards Ceremony.

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