So yeah, got my first interview 9 months out of college… Basically it’s a bank teller job. At a commercial bank. In a Wal Mart (!). Yup. Anyone know what I can expect for the interview? Fit or mostly technical? This is a half serious question… FML
Wear your best yellow tie… YLIF.
Be prepared to do the Wal-Mart chant and greet everybody that walks into the bank. I would also brush up on convertible arbitrage risk strategies and the modified CAPM. Make sure you know conditional heteroskedasticity cold. Wal-Mart banks love testing this crap.
wow. this may be a worse starting point than P&S 
Don’t do it! Get a bartender gig or anything if you need the cash. Its not like you’d put it on your resume anywhere.
You can do commercial banking at Walmart?
- Can you remember to shave? 2. Can you get here by 8? 3. Can you keep a straight face when someone opens a $30 CD? 4. Can you keep a straight face when handing over the free coffee mug they get for opening a new checking account? 5. Would you mind if we smeared your face on publications with text reading ‘Stop by the local Wal Mart at x &y to meet volante99 a CFA Candidate and our junior bank teller.’ HIRED! But seriously, is this thread is for real? If so, are you a CFA candidate? Nothing would light a fire under me to ace all of these exams like a Wal Mart bank teller interview!
The aren’t a part of Wal Mart…they just have an office…inside of a Wal-Mart. I didn’t even find out until I checked the address. Seems like a high robbery risk… I intend to take CFA 1 next December.
Is it an EZ Money gig?
Just take the job if you can get it. If it’s completely unrelated to your future aspirations, you can eventually drop it off your resume. Right now, you gotta do whatever it takes to pay the bills, unless you have someone else paying them for you…
volante99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The aren’t a part of Wal Mart…they just have an > office…inside of a Wal-Mart. I didn’t even find > out until I checked the address. > > Seems like a high robbery risk… > > I intend to take CFA 1 next December. Go look in the mirror and say out loud “Tomorrow I have an interview as a WAL MART bank teller!” Good god man! Take Level I in June, ace it, put it on your resume, and keep looking! Whatever it is that takes up your evenings needs to be put on the back burner for 2.5 months and you need to spend every minute that you aren’t WORKING AT WAL MART studying for Level I. I’m not even joking, what more motivation do you need?
akanska Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > wow. this may be a worse starting point than P&S > Don’t do it! Get a bartender gig or anything > if you need the cash. Its not like you’d put it > on your resume anywhere. Why is bartender better ? At least his clients are not drunk and stinky. I think bank teller is an under-rated job. Clean air-conditioned workplace, no physical effort, very little brain effort, stable work hours. On a temp basis, it beats flipping burgers or asking your relatives for money.
Just sell drugs if you have to pay your bills dude.
Yeah, Bankin’, no offense, but CFA 1 doesn’t mean shit in this market. And I don’t have the $1400 to start anyway. It’s all about experience. And I have none. Hence I’m working at a bank in Wal-Mart… …and livin’ in a van, down by the river.
mo34 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At least his clients are > not drunk and stinky. Sure bout that?
I was a part time teller at a large bank during my last year of college. They have a really good tuition reimbursement program. If it’s at a large national bank, you’d be surprised at the amount of sales pressure on the tellers. They turn you into a product pushing machine!
mo34 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > akanska Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > wow. this may be a worse starting point than > P&S > > Don’t do it! Get a bartender gig or > anything > > if you need the cash. Its not like you’d put > it > > on your resume anywhere. > > > Why is bartender better ? At least his clients are > not drunk and stinky. I think bank teller is an > under-rated job. Clean air-conditioned workplace, > no physical effort, very little brain effort, > stable work hours. On a temp basis, it beats > flipping burgers or asking your relatives for > money. um because one typically takes a pay cut / boring / fulfilling job for future prospects. Here all have agreed that this would be dropped off the resume ASAP. Maybe its bc I’m not lazy but working on the assumption that he’s young- I’d much rather do the ‘physical’ bar tending where I would get to have a great time and still do stuff (look for real job) during the day and get paid (probably) 3x as much anyhow. my theory is if its a pay the bills job (utility in $ and not prospects) the goal is to maximize the earnings and to my knowledge a teller job is barely over min wage.
Someone in my group’s middle office used to be a bank teller.
volante99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah, Bankin’, no offense, but CFA 1 doesn’t mean > shit in this market. And I don’t have the $1400 to > start anyway. > > It’s all about experience. And I have none. Hence > I’m working at a bank in Wal-Mart… > > …and livin’ in a van, down by the river. I agree that passing Level I has little value, especially in this environment, but it does show drive, ambition, a desire to better yourself, and some base level of intelligence. Further, who knows what the job market looks like in August when results come out. While passing Level I won’t land you any interviews in PE, Investment Banking, and the like, there are miles between those level of jobs and the one that you’re interviewing for tomorrow. Additionally, the knowledge that you gain in your studies could very well relate to a job you are applying and you could communicate this in a cover letter as well as being able to communicate with your interviewer more effectively. With regard to the money I am very anti-debt, but incurring debt (read credit card) to gain knowledge and pass an exam which could further your career would be a good reason to do so, much like a student loan to finance college. I genuinely wish you the best of luck in your interview.
A temporary Census job will probably pay loads more than a bank teller job. Check it out: http://2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs/how-to-apply/local-office-map.php
nuppal Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mo34 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > At least his clients are > > not drunk and stinky. > > Sure bout that? That is funny.