Inspirational Women
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NNE MCCLURE HAS an impressive title as Chief Operating Officer of Cabrillo Credit Union. However, the title pales in comparison to how impressive the woman is. Anne has spent 26 years with Cabrillo alone and several additional years in the banking industry. A native of Southern California, she attended Poway High School and didn’t leave the San Diego area until she went away to college at UC Santa Cruz for a year, completing her college degree at UC Irvine in a total of 3 ½ years. The mother of three, Anne has shared her work ethics with her children who all worked throughout school. “I never believed that my kids should not work. You have to be able to multi-task in real life, so I felt it was a good life lesson for them to work their way through school.” With a career working her way up the corporate ladder in the banking industry, I was curious if this was the field in which she had hoped to spend her career. “I didn’t come into banking as a career move. Ironically, it was at the suggestion of a teller who I happened to start a conversation with while cashing my check from the two jobs that I held in college. She noted that I was working multiple jobs and commented. I jokingly said I would work more if I could. I was currently paying my room and board to attend college while my parents took care of my tuition, but
I was still coming up short and really wanted to make more money. She suggested that I could if I applied for a job with the bank. So, I took her advice and I did. I was hired, and the rest is history.”
important always to give it your all, because you never know who is watching. “I found out about a position at the credit union through somebody that I used to work with at the bank, again reinforcing my belief
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Anne McClure By Judith A Habert
What Anne has always believed is that no matter what position you hold in a company that you should always work as hard as you can and stand out as the best in that position. Whether you are a high-level executive or a beginning teller, it is
that you are always making an impression regardless of the position you hold. He referred me to their CEO at the time. She was introduced to the credit union system and decided that this was a change she wanted to make. “Credit unions are in business to
serve their members/customers. In fact members are at the top of the org chart in a credit union. That’s very different than a bank, who is in business for its stockholders, and the customers aren’t even on the org chart.” Anne joined Cabrillo in 1992. “I came onboard as the research compliance and training manager, and within a couple of years I took over marketing and was juggling those different responsibilities. A few years after that, human resources became more of a need in the organization, and I took that on as well. I was wearing many different hats, which was kind of fun. In a small organization like Cabrillo was at the time, I never was bored handling a number of departments. As we grew it became evident that we needed an additional body, and I was given a choice whether I wanted to go to the marketing side or the human resources side. I had done marketing for a while, so I chose Human Resources which included training, an area I loved.” Cabrillo has been in existence since 1955. They began as a credit union that served the Border Patrol and their original name was “Border Federal Credit Union.” In 1976 The Credit Union changed its name from Border Federal Credit Union to Cabrillo Federal Credit Union. In 2003 they merged with Sharp Federal Credit Union, so they have a large contingency of
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