Great benefits, but I would keep looking...
Pros
The benefits at Fifth Third are some of the best available at a financial institution-- they cover almost all of your health insurance, profit sharing is paid into your 401k at the end of every year, and company match for your 401k is offered at 6%.
Cons
There is no such thing as work-life balance if you are not an hourly employee. The branches are understaffed because the turnover is so high so you will be planning your vacations around the managers time off which equates to about 4 weeks per year. Fifth Third advertises they are the "Curious Bank" but this is only so they have an excuse to ask you about all of your financials so they can later come back and sell you products, or as they are known in the banking industry- "widgets." This bank is very widget-oriented. Personal Bankers main job will be asking for forgiveness when the client 1) doesn't receive the checks they ordered, 2) can't get access to their online account, 3) debit card is not received because the client has a po box and 5/3 won't ship a debit card to a po box but this is unknown if you are a new employee you wouldn't know this information until your client comes raging into the branch, 4) i opens a new investment account with your investment executive but "forgets" to tell them about service charges, 5) the list goes on-and-on... If you are applying to be a loan officer, be ready to spend your time on nothing other than processing loans, asking for forgiveness from your clients for missing closing dates, begging attorneys to stay late to close your loans, and sending out checks to borrowers after the closing because it was such an awful, stressful experience. Management has no idea how to control customer services issues other than putting money into customers accounts.
