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Staff Appraiser for Wells Fargo or B of A? Pro's & Con's

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Zoe said:
There are many different jobs in a bank besides appraising. You might get foot in door and decide you want to do something else inside bank. Like residential mortgage lending or commercial lending or something else on the deposit side of the bank like wealth management. There are many potential different routes you could go in the bank. That is a Pro. Your fringe benefits are a Pro also. You will have basically many of the same fringe benefits of anybody in the bank based on their criteria in order to earn those benefits. The personnel person could help you if you want to change routes in the bank. You might be good in the personnel department. I forgot about that department. The compliance department you would be good in. The appraisal dept is just one small part of the overall compliance dept.

Once you get foot in door, you could talk to the personnel director over you and say I might be interested in working in a different department.
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Thats not the way Wells Fargo or B & A In California--You don' walk in on day one and ask to work in a different department- that woudl be your first and last day : )
 
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Thats not the way Wells Fargo or B & A In California--You don' walk in on day one and ask to work in a different department- that woudl be your first and last day : )
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No, no. You would have to work at least 6 months minimum at the job they hire you for to begin with. A year would be better. 2 years max if you hated the job. It would also depend on qualifications and background checks and all that. The personnel director would be the one to ask about that. I wouldn't ask the chief appraiser. I would tell them what I was doing and go to personnel director. If you had a manager or officer in another department that you had met and would recommend you before you went to personnel dept, it would help the transition.
 
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Zoe said:
No, no. You would have to work at least 6 months minimum at the job they hire you for to begin with. A year would be better. 2 years max if you hated the job. It would also depend on qualifications and background checks and all that. The personnel director would be the one to ask about that. I wouldn't ask the chief appraiser. I would tell them what I was doing and go to personnel director.
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You would not last one week in in Today's Corporate Culture that's- Thats not how it works in Big Banking as its business model changed well over 20 years ago. Wells Cargo CA is a Machine designed on low pay-scales and many hours of work and thats why its turnover in all of its sectors is very high.
 
glenn walker said:
You would not last one week in in Today's Corporate Culture that's- Thats not how it works in Big Banking as its business model changed well over 20 years ago. Wells Cargo CA is a Machine designed on low pay-scales and many hours of work and thats why its turnover in all of its sectors is very high.
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Idk. She don't have to go to WF. Idk how they operate. I know how banks in general operate.
 
Zoe said:
Idk. She don't have to go to WF. Idk how they operate. I know how banks in general operate.
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Maybe in Tennessee but thats no how it works out here in CALI :)
 
You can make a lot of money at a bank if you are good at your job and capable of managing. I am not talking appraising. You don't have to be in management to do it. Management helps.
 
Zoe said:
You can make a lot of money at a bank if you are good at your job and capable of managing. I am not talking appraising. You don't have to be in management to do it. Management helps.
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Banking in CA is one of the lowest paid jobs unless you reach the top tiers of Corporate and few do a branch manager is a low paid job and almost none make it up into the Corporate Ivory Tower.
 
glenn walker said:
Banking in CA is one of the lowest paid jobs unless you reach the top tiers of Corporate and few do a branch manager is a low paid job and almost none make it up into the Corporate Ivory Tower.
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Bunch of politics. They all pretty much believe in seniority and very good people skills. Education I am sure is a biggie now more than ever. But many will pay your education expenses. Walmart is paying their employee's education expenses.
 
When I say politics I mean internal politics. Not external politics. That would not be a big factor in politics working as an appraiser. The appraiser would not need great people skills other than to get along with other employees.
 
In my decade of working for SPNB/BofA I only saw 1 round of layoffs (before Nations Bank)....
After Nations Bank purchased BofA, all of the northeast and east coast employees were laid off....
In NE that was a total of 4 appraisers....
Because there were no BofA branches in NE, we were told employing 4 appraisers seemed like a bad idea to Nations....
And all of the LOs....
 
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