Countrywide mortgage consultant Carrie Cotter, 23, describes her journey from industry amateur to one of the top mortgage brokers aged under 30 in the country.
SS: Why did you enter the financial services industry and mortgages in particular? CC: I’ve always been interested in financial services. Straight out of school, I went to work for Santander as a customer services adviser. While I was working there I also worked part-time at McDonalds because I couldn’t afford to work off the one salary. Once I had some money saved, I started looking out for vacancies at my local estate agents office and saw that Countrywide was looking to hire people that didn’t necessarily have financial experience. I was interested in mortgage broking, becau...
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