terrible training!! - Financial Advisor Trainee Scotiabank Employee Review

i have worked at Applewood mississauga branch and Westwood Mall Mississauga branch. Terrible training. you are given 4 months of reading to be followed by 2 months of job shadowing. Managers have no idea of the training program, because they were trained differently 100 years ago. they are not updated by headoffice how new recruits are to be trained. at my first location, manager told me to read the materials. Applewood is primarily a mature branch = where most clients are older clients, with existing accounts, mortgages, lines of credit etc. there was hardly any new accounts opening. i was told to job shadow but those would have been about complicated matters such as mortgage and estate planning, so you cant job shadow those until you have read the material related to them in your 3/4th month. 3 months in the training, i got transferred to Westwood Mall in July which was peak season for intl students in the area. here the scene was opposite. there were myriads of students accounts and credit cards - so many that the months of july and august were primary spent on students accounts opening - almost 4-5 per day. entry level recruits were given students accounts. after the student rush went down, i was told to catch up with my training - then they advised me to find out from other advisors who were available each day so i could job shadow them. but advisors were busy meeting their targets. every day meetings would get cancelled, and advisors are not good trainers because they have enough on their plates to meet weekly/monthly targets. some advisors often made up meetings and agenda in the morning meetings, because they were already many years into their work, their agenda in the mornings were not exactly matched. managers did not play any role in training. cronysm - one advisor got hired after me through his sister who was at another branch. and i found out he was given a dedicated advisor to train him while i did not get the same, although i had joined 3 months before him and, of course, i did not have a bro or a sis in the bank. hazards if being team player - if u, the recruit, think u r gonna get brownie points by going the extra mile and doing something else to help the manager(s) which is not in your training plan, in the end it will bite you. stick to your training plan. if managers ask for favours and tell you take customers, you have to say NO. being nice and a "yes" person in such environment will only get you kicked out later, because you would be sacrificing your own goals to help the branch with their issues, which do not matter to you.