By Peyton Meisner
Every summer, Peoples State Bank hires high school students and has an intern program for college students to help give real-world experience to local youth.
Many of these students and interns have turned into full-time employees. Currently around 10-15 former students and interns are working at the bank full-time, including their current CFO and SVP of Bank Operations Brennen Clark.
“We’ve employed high school students for a long time now, but we started the college internship program in 2016,” said Aphton Check, Peoples State Bank marketing manager. “Most students start as a teller, but eventually most also gain experience with other departments, such as loan officers, processing, credit finance and IT,” she added.
This summer, Peoples State Bank had three students work as interns; McKenna Keeney, Zach Mara and Erin Hemmer.