{"id":4938,"date":"2021-08-09T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/business\/2021\/08\/09\/employer-spotlight-optionwide-financial\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:40:34","slug":"employer-spotlight-optionwide-financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/2021\/08\/09\/employer-spotlight-optionwide-financial\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer Spotlight: OptionWide Financial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16525 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2021\/08\/head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> David Vo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> RET Loan Officer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/optionwide\/\">OptionWide Financial Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry:\u00a0<\/strong>Financial Services<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice to students on how to adjust their job search in the time of COVID 19?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Set yourself apart from the crowd; include a cover letter, do your research on the company before phone screens\/interviews, show you care by following up. It never hurts to make an extra effort. Something quick &amp; simple like sending an email or a physical letter to the interviewer to thank them for their time and attention can speak volumes to your seriousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has your recruitment model adjusted to this unprecedented time? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We continue to attend virtual and in-person events. Initial phone screenings remain the same.\u00a0 But the face-to-face interview has moved to be either, or both, in our office and online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What excites you about your company\/industry? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It truly is an amazing thing to be part of a growing company with so many modernizations in such a historically massive industry. It has been clear to me from the very beginning that I entered into a company that would be ever-evolving, that cared deeply for not only its customer but its team members. OptionWide is on its way to remarkable success and I cannot be prouder to be part of that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking Part in Growth During Unprecedented Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4219,"featured_media":4661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argyros-career-advancement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}