WACC Work-Based Learning Spotlight: Everwise Credit Union

March 13, 2024 at 5:28 p.m.
Pictured are Karen Myers and Milo Jones at the downtown Warsaw location of Everwise Credit Union. Photo Provided.
Pictured are Karen Myers and Milo Jones at the downtown Warsaw location of Everwise Credit Union. Photo Provided.

By Melissa Kissling, Warsaw Area Career Cente

WACC Work-Based Learning Spotlight: Everwise Credit Union
Warsaw Area Career Center Intern: Milo Jones
Parents: Andrew and Bethany Jones
Student’s Job Title: universal teller
What are your job responsibilities: I help members in the drive through, as well as inside, with a variety of different transactions and tasks. I also balance my drawer at the end of each shift.
How has this position been helpful to you? It has helped me develop better social skills and given me good work experience.
What have you learned? I’ve learned all about how banking works, how checks work, how to write a check and a lot more.
How is this job preparing you for the future? It’s giving me valuable on-the-job experience that will be vital to my success in the future.
What do you like about this job? I like making relationships with members and coworkers.
What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? Principles of Business Management, Marketing Fundamentals and Strategic Marketing
Your Career and College Plans: I intend to study business at Purdue Fort Wayne.
Supervisor Input:
Supervisor: Karen Myers, assistant manager at Everwise Credit Union
What duties does this student perform? Cash and check transactions, making deposits, withdrawals, loan payments. Problem solving, assisting members with online banking issues and debit card issues.
How is this job preparing this student for the future? Teaches Milo about the financial world of banking and this will give him skills to be a good steward of his own finances into the future as well as to continue to advise and assist friends and family with their finances. Also, Milo is gaining knowledge of having quality conversations to discover members' problems so he can help assist them. This will help Milo in the future to continue to have quality conversations with people he interacts with.
What do you think of the WACC Work-Based Learning program? I love this program. It helps our youth learn and grow in a professional setting, getting them prepared as they become young adults.
Why were you willing to partner with the WACC in this program? I am a former student of this program. A company took time to prepare me for the future and I want to do the same for our youth -they are our future.

WACC Work-Based Learning Spotlight: Everwise Credit Union
Warsaw Area Career Center Intern: Milo Jones
Parents: Andrew and Bethany Jones
Student’s Job Title: universal teller
What are your job responsibilities: I help members in the drive through, as well as inside, with a variety of different transactions and tasks. I also balance my drawer at the end of each shift.
How has this position been helpful to you? It has helped me develop better social skills and given me good work experience.
What have you learned? I’ve learned all about how banking works, how checks work, how to write a check and a lot more.
How is this job preparing you for the future? It’s giving me valuable on-the-job experience that will be vital to my success in the future.
What do you like about this job? I like making relationships with members and coworkers.
What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? Principles of Business Management, Marketing Fundamentals and Strategic Marketing
Your Career and College Plans: I intend to study business at Purdue Fort Wayne.
Supervisor Input:
Supervisor: Karen Myers, assistant manager at Everwise Credit Union
What duties does this student perform? Cash and check transactions, making deposits, withdrawals, loan payments. Problem solving, assisting members with online banking issues and debit card issues.
How is this job preparing this student for the future? Teaches Milo about the financial world of banking and this will give him skills to be a good steward of his own finances into the future as well as to continue to advise and assist friends and family with their finances. Also, Milo is gaining knowledge of having quality conversations to discover members' problems so he can help assist them. This will help Milo in the future to continue to have quality conversations with people he interacts with.
What do you think of the WACC Work-Based Learning program? I love this program. It helps our youth learn and grow in a professional setting, getting them prepared as they become young adults.
Why were you willing to partner with the WACC in this program? I am a former student of this program. A company took time to prepare me for the future and I want to do the same for our youth -they are our future.

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