I hate that it represents more than half of my entire career. I might be imagining things, but it feels like it's ruining my chances of finding another job. I could just be paranoid, but I do believe that our reputation has suffered so much that not everybody wants to hire employees who are connected to this mess.
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@pun+1scyLwhy In his dreams. Try 325.
I may get alot of down votes for this. A friend I work with was offered a job with another bank a while back. That bank wanted to hire him/her just because of they worked for WF. Through it all WF is the 3rd largest bank in the U.S. Some in corporate America has stars in their eyes when they see WF on a resume. Their customers in WFA & WFB will be less than pleased when jobs start heavily going to India. That could knock their ranking down and they'll possibly lose their number 3 ranking regardless of their assets. Sending jobs to India to save money on salaries IMO is one of their worst decisions ever. To reiterate, alot of Corporate America holds them in the highest regards. I've witnessed it for myself in job interviews and from a car
dealership I purchased my car from 5 years ago. The finance manager of the car dealership sang nothing but praises for WF. If any prospective employer puts WF down, don't be tempted to talk negatively, and you will land a great new job. I pray you land a great new job! I know you will. How do I know? We are all go getters. Keep us posted. Best wishes for you my friend.
After the layoff, I attended the LHH sessions. Lame-O. Fortunately, I found this on YouTube appropriately named "A life after layoff".
youtube. com/@ALifeAfterLayoff. I suggest that you turn the tables in the interview. Be prepared to ask them questions.
youtube. com/watch?v=dR7Az48WmEY. You can look for some meetup groups to relate to other people.
Part of coming off of survivor island is to let it go. Also use AI. go to gemini.google.com Enter this prompt "what do you say in a job interview when your interviewer makes bad generalizations about your former employer". Then go from there about your general circumstance.
Dear turning a new leaf,
YOU are not WFC, the OCC or appear to be affiliated with any bad actor directly responsible for the myopic, ill-informed or sophmoric decisions that has tainted impaired the growth of this company the last 20 years. Why you stayed in your LOB, the people partnered with, the opportunities you created, and challenges you all conqured that lead to successes or lessons learned is your s/heroes themed resume. WFC is just the location your journey took place. Congrats and much success in the newest chapter of your adventure.
The longer you stay, the more difficult it will be to explain why you remained well after the culture changed
Companies will understand why you want to jump ship.
DO NOT bad mouth your employer in a job interview, but find a professional way to state why you are no longer interested in staying.
No one wants to hear negativity in a job interview.
"The goals of the organization no longer align with my career aspirations" of something like that is good.
They'll take a chance on you, but you're right lots of people in my niche of profession also in the industry who either worked for Wells or interviewed there mentioned it was a lack luster situation. Try to emphasize being able to pretty much do your job despite the oppression, bullying, and harassment. Metrics are good but they are not everything. They help. Best of luck and congrats on moving on. Working at Wells is like being a traumatized kid having to manage the whole family. been there done that...