Bank of America Holding Open Calls for Call Center Reps

by Mike Bevel, CollectionIndustry.com

Bank of America is calling it ?Walk-in-Wednesday.? We called it ?Wednesday Wedding Day? when I was in grade school, and tag games took on a horrifying matrimonial element. There was one Wednesday in third grade where I was married to 17 different people.

But that?s not the point.

The point is, Bank of America in Delaware has been holding hiring fairs every Wednesday since August ? and they?ve been pretty pleased with the results. Among the jobs being recruited for are collections and fraud detection.

Betsy Weinberger, a Bank of America spokesperson, wouldn?t say how many have been fired so far, or how many more folks Bank of America is looking to add to its Delaware family. She did say that the recruiting fair would continue through September.

The hiring in Ogletown comes after months of job reductions at operations Bank of America acquired through its $35 billion buyout of Wilmington-based MBNA Corp., which had been the world’s largest stand-alone credit card bank. Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America has said cuts were necessary because of overlap between its credit card operation and MBNA’s. Wilmington is now home to Bank of America’s credit card unit, the largest in the United States.