Gateway Community Bank Interview Analysis

Interviewer: Of your bank.

Paul: I do not.

Interviewer: Okay, I can look that up.

Paul: That is something you would have to email Alan for.

Interviewer: Okay, why don’t we jump in? Why don’t you start by describing Gateway Community Bank and the marketplace it serves?

Paul: Well, it’s a local community bank and we are locally owned and operate. The majority of our customer base is small business and the small Ag operations and things like that. We work together with the local communities and they are very proud of working with us to achieving all of the different things that they are trying to get out of the communities.

Interviewer: How many retail offices does the bank have serving the communities?

Paul: We have two locations and we just opened up a satellite office.

Interviewer: Okay, describe the communities. Is it suburban or a mix of Ag and suburban?

Paul: It is more rural and
Did you say you had an accounting degree?

Paul: Yes, I have a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Interviewer: So, you got your degree and then went into the Marines?

Paul: No, I was in the Marines first, then I got out, and actually I did land surveying when I got out of the Marines for about six to seven years. Then I had some life changing medical issues, so I had to go back to college. I decided I would try out a community college first. Everything, at the time I started to pick out a degree, was on Yahoo and Google and all those websites were saying that the top degree to get was accounting, business, and all of those. I tried accounting and I liked it and kept with it. I got my associates and went on to get my bachelor’s degree.

Interviewer: Good for you. What do you like about accounting?

Paul: Just the way the numbers flow when you are actually doing a balance sheet or income statement and how everything lines up and all the numbers work.

Interviewer: The numbers make sense and there is a logic to it right?

Paul: