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Customer Service

A bank teller must be able to provide outstanding customer service to all patrons, even those who are not as pleasant as others. Emphasize aspects of your personality that demonstrate your ability to provide good customer service, such as being patient, friendly and outgoing. Discuss any previous jobs you're held in customer service to demonstrate that you are experienced working with the general public.

Honesty

A bank teller spends her day working with money, so the interviewer wants to know you can be trusted. He does not want to hire someone he suspects will steal money from the bank and become a liability to the institution. Prove to him that you are an honest person who can be trusted by emphasizing your good personal history with past employers. Offer to provide references that will support your claims.

Good Judgment

You want to provide excellent customer service to patrons, but you don't want them to take advantage of the financial institution, so you need to have good judgment to know when someone gives you a counterfeit bill or a forged check or is attempting to do something else illegal. Let the interviewer know that you're perceptive by telling the him about a time you took the initiative to make a good judgment call on the job that was beneficial to the company.

Multitasking

Customers want to be able to come into their local financial institution and get their banking done quickly. At peak times, banks often get very busy, so a teller needs to be quick and efficient so customers do not have to wait in line very long. Discuss your ability to multitask in the interview, to show the hiring manager that you are an efficient worker who can work quickly to please the customer.

Reliability

A financial institution depends on its bank tellers to be at work on time, during their scheduled hours, to provide customer service. If a bank teller comes to work late or makes a habit of not showing up for work at all, the customers suffer. Discuss the fact that you're a very reliable employee. If you're a very punctual person who is always on time for work and rarely takes sick days, share this with him. It will help to demonstrate that if hired, you would be a very reliable employee.