PHILIPSBURG:--- The Windward Islands Bank Ltd., (WIB) welcomed students from Milton Peters College for their summer job orientation. Six VSBO-TKL 3 students were placed at various departments at WIB for a period of 2 weeks to get a "hands-on" approach of working in a Bank. Five students worked at WIB's Main Office in Philipsburg, and one was placed at the Simpson Bay branch. Alishandra worked at Office Services which processes all the banks payments from bills down to a paper clip. Tenghui was placed at Information Technology Department, which is responsible for getting all the computers and other communication lines ready to be in use. Rekwane training took place at the Reconciliation & Investigation Department where he learned to reconcile and balance checks.
Students from the Technical Science division who worked at the bank are Nickjenson St. Jean and Dagmar Wijman. Nickjenson worked in the mailing section of office services. Dagmar worked along the Merchant Services department, that's where the programming of merchant terminals occur to facilitate the acceptance of credit and debit cards.
Esther Jerome trained at the Marketing Department which entails public relations, sponsoring, planning & coordinating bank events, media relations and advertisement scheduling.
It was very kind for WIB to provide these students with the job training opportunities to gain the necessary job skills in the workforce of our community. The students certainly enjoyed the working environment, which they found was very positive and full of happiness. Some have expressed a desire in the near future, after their studies to return as employees of the Bank. The students thanked WIB for accepting and allowing them to work.
Written by job trainee (Marketing): Esther Jerome