Fidelity is hiring as new customers and higher call volumes drive growth
Posted By: Reggie Culpepper on November 29, 2020
At Fidelity, we have always believed that delivering a superior customer experience must start with providing the resources and tools to help our associates build a rewarding career. This has been especially critical over the last eight months, as we have had significant growth in new customers and accounts, and existing clients are more engaged than ever before. To help with increased call volumes and our customers’ growing need for in-depth planning conversations, this Fall we announced plans to hire an additional 4,000 customer-facing positions across our U.S. locations. Fidelity’s innovations in technology and adoption of personalized digital platforms, products, and tools have spurred account growth and increased customer activity. These investments helped us handle the 100% increase in daily web sessions on our retail digital platforms in the third quarter of this year versus the same period last year. However, technology cannot fully replicate a conversation with a customer service representative. Across the financial services industry, customers continue to appreciate the opportunity to talk with a representative to help them navigate their personal situations. In fact, Fidelity’s expansion of digital planning capabilities enabled a 34% increase in the number of retail households that engaged in financial planning interactions during the third quarter of this year compared to Q3 of 2019. To address the increasing volume of customer interactions, we are hiring thousands of financial advisors, licensed representatives, and customer service representatives. This comes on top of several thousand new client-facing associates we already hired earlier this year. We are also starting to actively recruit 1,000 college students for our 2021 summer internship program, as well as five hundred 2021 graduates to participate in select post-graduate training programs. We are able to handle this increase in hiring because we have implemented new recruiting and onboarding practices that resulted from our culture of continuous improvement and feedback from new and seasoned associates. We have also enhanced employee benefits to respond to the changing needs of our associates, including new benefits to help caregivers juggle work and family challenges. If you are passionate about helping others, get excited about innovation, and are customer-obsessed, I hope you will consider a career at Fidelity: https://jobs.fidelity.com/. #FidelityAssociate If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
 |
Reggie Culpepper Director, HBCUConnect Clark Atlanta University class of 1998 Member Since September 2000 |
Comments
More From This Author
| Elliott Lightfoot selected to lead Central State University track and field and cross country programs |
Latest News
 |
NBA Star Chris Paul’s CP3 Basketball Academy partners with TLS Sports to host HBCU CON!The HBCU CON, a weeklong basketball and academic experience for elite players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, will be offering instruction embedded with skill development from forme ...more
Reggie Culpepper • 210 Views • January 19th, 2021 |
 |
Spelman College Will Use $2 Million Gift to Launch First-Ever HBCU LGBTQ Studies Chair to Honor Audre LordePRESS RELEASE FROM SPELMAN COLLEGE
ATLANTA (January 12, 2021) -- Spelman College has raised the matching funds to philanthropist Jon Stryker’s gift to fund the first-ever Queer Studies chair at a h ...more
Kennedy Williams • 341 Views • January 19th, 2021 |
 |
NBCUniversal News Group Launches NBCU Academy, Partners With Hampton University Journalism Program and Other HBCUsPRESS RELEASE FROM HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK (January 14, 2021) – NBCUniversal News Group launched NBCU Academy, a new, innovative, multiplatform journalism training and development program for f ...more
Kennedy Williams • 121 Views • January 19th, 2021 |
 |
Howard’s Very Own Showtime Marching Band Set To Escort Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris to the InaugurationWell, family, the time has finally come. Around this time tomorrow, HBCU graduate Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the first woman and first African American Vice President of the United States. Ahea ...more
Kennedy Williams • 1,390 Views • January 19th, 2021 |
 |
Internship Opportunities for HBCU Students with Deutsche Bank: Apply Now!Deutsche Bank - We're Changing How Banking Works! Our interns use their diverse talents to create new opportunities. #PositiveImpact
With dbAchieve, Deutsche Bank's summer internship program exclus ...more
Reggie Culpepper • 218 Views • January 15th, 2021 |
Popular News
