Tellers

Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.

Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.

Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.

Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds.

Count currency, coins, and checks received, by hand or using currency-counting machine, to prepare them for deposit or shipment to branch banks or the Federal Reserve Bank.

Enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts.

Examine checks for endorsements and to verify other information, such as dates, bank names, identification of the persons receiving payments, and the legality of the documents.

Resolve problems or discrepancies concerning customers' accounts.

Process transactions, such as term deposits, retirement savings plan contributions, automated teller transactions, night deposits, and mail deposits.

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Get as much work experience as possible, especially cashier experience. Also be very friendly and be a people person.

It's always hard to save money for the future when you have many bills to pay and a family to support. I managed to balance everything by organizing and taking time to think things through.

In a great work day, I oversee all that there is to do on the teller side. I need to make sure all operations and procedures are done correctly.

Lead-Teller

You should learn to speak proper English.

Elizabeth Colon

Lead-Teller

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Elizabeth Colon

Lead-Teller

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Numbers

Travel

Teaching / Mentoring

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

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