Customer Service Representative
South Shore Bank · Westwood, MA · 1 mo ago
OTHR$20–$26.5/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. Include only substantive info.
Let's parse the posting.
Job Type Full-time Description SUMMARY ... Essential Duties And Responsibilities ... Requirements QUALIFICATIONS ... Skills ... PHYSICAL DEMANDS ... WORK ENVIRONMENT ... KEY POINTS ... PAY RANGE DISCLOSURE ... Salary Description.
We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (maybe qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what content belongs where.
The posting includes:
- Summary: Under the general supervision Branch Manager, performs a variety of customer service and related duties to meet sales and service objectives and ensure the ongoing effectiveness of customer service in conformance with established Bank policies, strategies, and procedures.
- Essential Duties And Responsibilities: long list.
- Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: includes "To perform this job successfully..." then list: High school diploma or GED, Minimum of one plus years of customer service or teller experience, Demonstrated communication, customer service, and organizational skills, Must have basic knowledge of bank products and services, Ability to use various types of office equipment, Ability to read and interpret documents, Ability to draft routine reports and correspondence, Ability to speak effectively before groups, Ability to calculate figures and amounts, Ability to apply common sense understanding, Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables, To perform this job successfully, an individual should know Internet software, Spreadsheet and Word Processing software, and service bureau software applications.
- Skills: Basic knowledge of the banking and financial services industry including federal laws and regulations, Willingness to gain new knowledge and technical skills, Intermediate typing skills, Intermediate math skills..., Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills...
- Physical Demands and Work Environment: maybe not needed as separate sections unless we have headings for them? Not in list of allowed headings. We could possibly omit or fold into other sections? The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. Include only substantive info.
Let's parse the posting.
Job Type Full-time Description SUMMARY ... Essential Duties And Responsibilities ... Requirements QUALIFICATIONS ... Skills ... PHYSICAL DEMANDS ... WORK ENVIRONMENT ... KEY POINTS ... PAY RANGE DISCLOSURE ... Salary Description.
We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (maybe qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what content belongs where.
The posting includes:
- Summary: Under the general supervision Branch Manager, performs a variety of customer service and related duties to meet sales and service objectives and ensure the ongoing effectiveness of customer service in conformance with established Bank policies, strategies, and procedures.
- Essential Duties And Responsibilities: long list.
- Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: includes "To perform this job successfully..." then list: High school diploma or GED, Minimum of one plus years of customer service or teller experience, Demonstrated communication, customer service, and organizational skills, Must have basic knowledge of bank products and services, Ability to use various types of office equipment, Ability to read and interpret documents, Ability to draft routine reports and correspondence, Ability to speak effectively before groups, Ability to calculate figures and amounts, Ability to apply common sense understanding, Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables, To perform this job successfully, an individual should know Internet software, Spreadsheet and Word Processing software, and service bureau software applications.
- Skills: Basic knowledge of the banking and financial services industry including federal laws and regulations, Willingness to gain new knowledge and technical skills, Intermediate typing skills, Intermediate math skills..., Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills...
- Physical Demands and Work Environment: maybe not needed as separate sections unless we have headings for them? Not in list of allowed headings. We could possibly omit or fold into other sections? The instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should only use those headings. We can omit Physical Demands and Work Environment if not matching those headings. But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop info. However we could incorporate that info into other sections like Requirements or Qualifications? The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep that info somewhere. If we don't have a heading for it, we could put it under a generic
without a heading? The instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use for section headings (e.g...). Likely they expect only those headings. But we need to include physical demands and work environment somewhere. Could we put them under "Requirements" or "Qualifications"? They are not exactly requirements but could be considered part of job requirements. Might be acceptable to include them under Requirements as additional bullet points. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Physical Demands and Work Environment into Requirements or Qualifications.
Similarly, KEY POINTS about benefits and culture could go under Benefits section.
PAY RANGE DISCLOSURE and Salary Description go under Pay.
Schedule: Not mentioned; we should not create a Schedule section if no info.
Thus we will have sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities, Requirements (including qualifications, skills, physical demands, work environment), Benefits (key points), Pay.
But we also have separate Qualifications and Skills headings in the list. The posting has "Requirements QUALIFICATIONS" and then "Skills". So we could separate them: Requirements (maybe the bullet list under Requirements QUALIFICATIONS), Qualifications (maybe the same? Actually they used "Requirements QUALIFICATIONS" as a heading. Then later "Skills". So we could have Requirements (the list under Requirements QUALIFICATIONS) and Qualifications (maybe the same? Hmm ambiguous). The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. So we should separate them: Requirements (maybe the bullet list under Requirements QUALIFICATIONS), Qualifications (maybe the same? Actually they might consider Requirements as the bullet list, Qualifications as the education/experience etc. But the posting lumps them together. Let's parse:
"Requirements QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. High school diploma or general education degree (GED).Minimum of one plus years of customer service or teller experience.Demonstrated communication, customer service, and organizational skills.Must have basic knowledge of bank products and services.Able to use various types of office equipment, including computer terminals.Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.Ability to draft routine reports and correspondence.Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages.Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.To perform this job successfully, an individual should know Internet software, Spreadsheet and Word Processing software, and service bureau software applications."
Then "Skills Basic knowledge of the banking and financial services industry including federal laws and regulationsWillingness to gain new knowledge and technical skills.Intermediate typing skills to meet the production needs of the position.Intermediate math skills: the ability to calculate interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages; balance accounts; add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; locate routine mathematical errors; compute rate, ratio, and percent, including the drafting and interpretation of bar graphs.Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to apply common sense to carry out instructions and instruct others, train personnel, read, analyze, and interpret documents and professional journals, understand procedures, write reports, correspondence, and procedures, speak clearly to customers and employees."
Thus we can treat the first block as "Requirements" (or "Qualifications") and the second as "Skills". The instruction includes both headings, so we should use them.
Thus sections:
- About the role (summary)
- Responsibilities (essential duties)
- Requirements (the list after "Requirements QUALIFICATIONS")
- Skills (the list after "Skills")
- Benefits (key points about benefits and culture)
- Pay (pay range disclosure)
- (Schedule omitted)
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, etc. The KEY POINTS includes a paragraph about benefits and then a long EEO statement and culture statements. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should strip out the EEO paragraph and the culture statements? The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. The KEY POINTS includes: "Dedham Savings is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to ..." That's EEO boilerplate, should be removed. Also the following sentences about fostering culture etc might be considered not boilerplate but part of benefits/culture. Might keep the part about benefits package: "At Dedham Savings, we believe that being here for the journey means supporting our clients in a friendly and professional manner every day. While our employees are committed to helping our clients, we are committed to our employees. After all, we wouldn’t have made it for nearly 200 years as a local neighborhood bank without them! To support our employees, we offer a competitive benefits package with Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending, Tuition Reimbursement, Childcare Subsidy Reimbursement, Retirement, Life Insurance, and many other benefits." That's substantive benefits info. The rest about culture could be considered also substantive but not boilerplate. However the instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/... boilerplate. It doesn't say remove culture statements. So we could keep the culture statements as part of Benefits section? Might be okay.
But we need to avoid duplication. The KEY POINTS also includes: "Here at Dedham Savings, we strive to foster a culture where every voice is valued and where employees have a sense of belonging and connection with each other. We are dedicated to creating a work environment that understands, supports, and welcomes diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Together, we will create an inclusive and culturally competent and supportive environment where employees model behavior that enriches both Dedham Savings and the communities we support." This is not EEO but culture. Might keep.
Thus Benefits section will contain the benefits package description and maybe the culture statements.
Now we need to format as HTML: use for each section heading, then content: use
for each section heading, then content: use
for prose,
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We need to decide what constitutes a list. The responsibilities are many sentences; we could make each duty a
- . Similarly for requirements and skills. We must preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep each duty as separate bullet? The original is a paragraph with sentences separated by periods. We can split into bullet points per sentence. That preserves detail. Similarly for requirements and skills. We need to avoid repeating the job title as a heading. Not needed. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. Now let's extract content. Summary (About the role): "Under the general supervision Branch Manager, performs a variety of customer service and related duties to meet sales and service objectives and ensure the ongoing effectiveness of customer service in conformance with established Bank policies, strategies, and procedures." Note missing "the" before Branch Manager? It's "Under the general supervision Branch Manager". We'll keep as is. Responsibilities (Essential Duties And Responsibilities): list each duty. Let's copy the responsibilities text: "Greet customers of the Bank cordially and professionally and provide efficient, effective, and courteous customer service in person and via telephone. Perform a variety of customer service duties. Open and close accounts and process a wide variety of transactions. Process necessary paperwork. Respond to customer inquiries. Understand, explain, and cross-sell products and services of benefit to the customer such as checking and savings accounts, certificate of deposit accounts, individual retirement accounts (IRA), loan products, credit cards, debit cards, and digital services. Maintain current knowledge of all Bank products and services. May perform teller duties as required. Process all necessary transactions and issue receipts accordingly. Answer customer inquiries; investigate and correct errors, using Bank and customer records. Admit customers to the safe deposit box vault area following Bank procedures. Open and surrender safe deposit boxes as requested. Maintain current knowledge of passbook loans and forward them to appropriate personnel for underwriting and approval. Accept line of credit (CheckProtec) applications and forward them to appropriate personnel for underwriting and approval. Execute wire transfers of funds. Process credit card applications. Assist customers with Official check and Teller’s check inquiries. Search for the status of a check. Obtain copies of cleared checks. Place stop payments. Reissue checks. Assist customers with a wide range of IRA transactions. Trustee Transfers, Direct Rollovers, Rollovers. Process contributions and distributions. May occasionally serve as back-up to Front Desk Coordinator. Maintain and encourage an ongoing sales culture within the branch. Perform clerical duties including, but not limited to, pending work and daily mail. Ability to use Microsoft Word and Excel proficiently. Ability to write professional