Pictured are Karen Myers and Milo Jones at the downtown Warsaw location of Everwise Credit Union. Photo provided.

News Release

WARSAW — Milo Jones is working as a universal teller intern at Everwise Credit Union through the Warsaw Area Career Center’s Work-Based Learning program offered by Warsaw Community Schools.

Jones is the son of Andrew and Bethany Jones. He plans to study business at Purdue in Fort Wayne.

Student’s job title: Universal teller

What are your job responsibilities? “I help members in the drive-thru, as well as inside, with a variety of different transactions and tasks,” Jones said in a news release. “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,” he said.

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 co-workers.”

What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? “Principles of Business Management, Marketing Fundamentals and Strategic Marketing.”

Karen Myers, assistant manager at Everwise Credit Union, is serving as Jones’ supervisor during the internship.

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,” said Myers.

How is this job preparing this student for the future? It “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,” Myers said. “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.”