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Post by cropduster on May 29, 2015 0:18:58 GMT
I got hired as a bank teller three months ago. I make a starting wage that is comparable with other administrative entry level positions. ( I applied at several different places). I am full time and have decent benefits. I have 10 paid days off my first year in addition to all the paid legal holidays. For not having a college degree and starting out, I am satisfied with my salary and benefit package. My bank, while they do want you to cross sell products and give incentives, your job does not depend on it. If I had to make sales quotas in order to keep my job, I would have passed. As someone mentioned, I like that when you leave for the day, you do not bring your job home with you. I work with a great staff, have a great boss and have met some really nice people. I have heard of drama taking place at some of the other branches though. But that happens in any field you go into. Saturday's is drive-up only, so we can wear tennis shoes and jeans if we want. As long as we look professional from the waist up. ;-) Plus we get a half day off during the week to compensate for the hours we work Saturday, so I like that for making appointments if need be. Is it something I want to do the rest of my life? Probably not. My feet are sore at the end of the day and it can get tedious. But there is room for growth and have the potential to move up the ladder at the branch level or move to one of the departments at our headquarters. Good luck in whatever you decide to do!
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Post by stampbooker on May 29, 2015 13:29:53 GMT
It's weird to hear everyone say that tellers have to sell services. I never have had a teller try and sell me something.
Julie
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Post by sunnyd on May 29, 2015 13:54:47 GMT
I worked at McDonalds all through high school & upon graduation took a pay cut to become a bank teller because I thought it would look better on a resume. It was basically the same type of work as McDonalds, slightly more glorified cashier. We upsold at the bank the same way we asked if they wanted a cherry pie with that at McD's. I loved it, but then again, I loved working at McD's too.
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Post by Yubon Peatlejuice on May 29, 2015 14:33:08 GMT
Bank tellers are becoming like travel agents. They just aren't necessary any more as people are doing most of their banking online or through ATMs.
JPMorgan Chase just announced 5000 layoffs today as it closes Chase branches all over the country.
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Post by jenjie on May 29, 2015 14:40:53 GMT
I worked at McDonalds all through high school & upon graduation took a pay cut to become a bank teller because I thought it would look better on a resume. It was basically the same type of work as McDonalds, slightly more glorified cashier. We upsold at the bank the same way we asked if they wanted a cherry pie with that at McD's. I loved it, but then again, I loved working at McD's too. When I was head teller our bank was just beginning to have tellers cross-sell services. Nothing like today. I would make suggestions if I felt the customer was the right target for the service. That didn't come out right. Anyway I had one teller, a young guy, who would offer an additional bank service with every transaction. It was obvious he used to work at McDonald's because his pitch sounded very much like "would you like fries with that?"
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Post by stampinbetsy on May 29, 2015 19:04:39 GMT
I was a travel team teller for a credit union for a few months. I made ok money, and never had to work Saturdays. The hard part was always being in a new place because I usually wasn't at a branch for more than a week at a time. Cross selling was not something I had to do, but I could see that coming.
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Post by stampinchick on May 30, 2015 5:12:59 GMT
I used to work in a call center for a bank. We had sales requirements and I know the branch employees had even higher sales requirements than we had. The biggest thing they wanted us to push was credit cards. This was 3-4 years ago when it had become much harder to qualify for a credit card and the people who probably would qualify where getting rid of their credit cards because the economy was in the crapper and they didn't want to get into more debt. The bank would bring in people from the credit card company pretty much every quarter and have them meet with us to train us how to convince people that their credit card would be the best possible thing they would ever want. It made me sick to hear much they wanted us to push the cards. I never met my quota because I refused to push it on people who obviously would never qualify and even the people that might have qualified and were interested in a card ended up not qualifying. And since I wasn't meeting my quota my manager wouldn't approve me for applying for other positions in the company. My option was to either sell more credit cards so I could move to another department, stay in the call center for the rest of my life, or leave the company. I left.
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Post by AussieMeg on May 30, 2015 5:22:59 GMT
But yes, working every Saturday for 5 years sucked.
She said the bank teller had her working crazy hours
That's interesting. Over here there is a saying about working "bankers hours" which relates to really short working days. Up until recently the hours were 9:30am to 4:30pm which really sucks when you work 9-5 and can't get to a bank before or after work. It was unheard of for banks to be open on Saturday. There are a few that do open now on Saturday but not many, at least in my area.
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Post by anonrefugee on May 30, 2015 12:59:50 GMT
AussieMeg we have that phrase here too. True, the banks were open to the public shorter hours, but the staff was inside, early and late, working away. Similar to teachers working more than the hours kids are in school. Im sure they originally had shorter hours than laborers. But I don't know any professional, salaried positions here that stop at forty hours a week. A lot of banks in our area have gone retail for personal banking. They have evening lobby hours and open Saturday mornings. Competition, I guess.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 13:30:24 GMT
It's weird to hear everyone say that tellers have to sell services. I never have had a teller try and sell me something. Julie Same here. It doesn't matter if I go in or use the drive thru, I've never had a teller try to sell anything. I use a credit union. Maybe that's the difference? Or maybe the difference is all of the selling is done with new customers?
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