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Portrait of Pearl Roe

Honor Society® member

Pearl Roe

customer service representative at WaFd Bank

  • Business Finance
  • Class of 2024
  • TACOMA, Washington

Member since June 2020

About

More than eighty-five percent of people are living paycheck by paycheck, making only enough to cover basic bills. Yet, my purpose as a customer service representative is to get customers to not merely know about financial literacy, but helping them achieve their dreams. All it takes is striking up a conversation and uncovering their values, personal aspirations, and needs to help them advance. At the core, I believe that customer service representatives should be more than robots only doing what the computer tells us too. Everyone makes mistakes, but my aspiration is to learn about those circumstances to gauge the best way to help them. In the end, you have to go the extra mile to serve your community. By keeping that positive attitude, I engage the customer to learn about financial literacy and give them the only products they need. No issue is unsolvable for me. Whether it's getting my managers approval to open a savings account for a person with a bad Chexsystems report or helping those with understanding how FDIC insurance works.

I focus on key results to build an efficient team that focuses on helping the community, no matter an individual or entity. The job description is a jumping-off point and even if not listed as my job, I have no problem helping keep branches keep themselves at the highest level of integrity and competence. This includes organized files, finding documents, and even memorizing each regulation to properly be in compliance. I am a data-driven and insightful employee who is passionate about growing successful teams.

My specialties include analyzing risk, behavioral finances, efficient markets, real estate markets, and monetary policies. I am constantly learning and investing myself in building a better bank that focuses on the community instead of a quota. Through learning about real-world functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries, I can properly direct my team through a plethora of challenges and responsibilities that ensure the optimal efficiency in a company.

Education

  • Decatur High School

    High School Diploma

    2018 – 2019

Honors and awards

  • Klahowya Super Citizen

    Rewarding those that spread joy and have a sense of community. They show respect, compassion, and thoughtfulness whether student or teacher.

  • Honor Roll

    Those who are honored for their scholastic accomplishment of going above and beyond during the education year. This includes grades, and involvement in the community.

  • Finalist in 2018 AVID Essay Writing Contest

    Upon writing an authentic and powerful essay awarded it for the flow of words written about the disadvantages of technology and students in school.

Goals and interests

Career goal

My intended job path is simply of that of a business analyst. I desire to analyze the project's business requirements and develop teams to help improve finances with carefully analyzed data, business processes, and surveys. In the future, I cant to communicate with teams to deliver the product's functional requirements like interface and GUI designs. Then document the results acquired from test scripts and scenarios.

Outside the classroom

Thomas H. Huxley once said, “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” My hobby would be reading. As boring as that sounds by reading books, my thinking has expanded and I've became more o[pen minded. It changed my world perspective. I can understand the positivity, the history, and the challenges of the world. When I understand that I can begin to make a change and better myself. That quickness and perspective can help me mature into a positive person. Whenever I see something I can help with, I am confident that I can because I learned a lot about what I know from books.

Experience

  • customer service representative

    WaFd Bank

    Nov 2019 – Aug 2020

  • Bank Teller

    Wells Fargo

    Sep 2019 – Nov 2019

  • sales associate

    Leggs, Hanes, Bali, Playtex

    Jun 2019 – Nov 2019

  • Office Assistant

    Klahowya Secondary School

    Sep 2018 – Jul 2019

Volunteering

  • Sixth-grade tutor that used personalized worksheets, hands-on learning styles, and communicated with teachers to help understand areas of improvement.

    Klahowya Secondary School

    Oct 2018 – Sep 2019

  • Organized the library, read to the kids, and helped students to find the appropriate resources for assignments

    Geneseo High School

    Apr 2016 – May 2018

Languages

  • English (US) Fluent