Career Opportunities
Gustan Cho Associates powered by NEXA Mortgage LLC has career opportunities for both newly licensed, experienced loan officers, and branch managers looking to take their current net branch to the next level. Gustan Cho Associates is a dba of NEXA Mortgage LLC, the nation’s largest and fastest growing mortgage broker. Licensed in 48 states, including DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, NEXA Mortgage LLC has lending partnerships with over 190 wholesale lending partners. NEXA Mortgage LLC is the parent of AXEN Mortgage which is the mini-correspondent division of NEXA Mortgage LLC.
Career Opportunities In The Mortgage Industry
This article is a little different than any other loan officer career opportunity blog you will read. I am going to share my story on how I became licensed, started my loan officer career, and how I am now at NEXA Mortgage LLC. I am a firm believer that you learn from the mistakes of others so you can save years of your life/career by not making the same mistake. By sharing my experience with the multiple mortgage companies I worked for, you may share the same experience I have been through and that is the reason why you are looking for better career opportunities.
Why Do Loan Officers Keep On Moving To New Career Opportunities
It seems like it is the norm that loan officers move from one company to the next. Loan officers realize that changing from one company to the next as a loan officer, the downtime is at least three or more months before you are stabilized. This is a story of how it took me almost ten years to find my final home (I believe).
If you guys can share your stories as well in the comment section, I would appreciate it. I do not believe in trying to sell someone into joining a particular company. I believe in full transparency. As a manager and former owner of a multi-million dollar business, you cannot demand respect. Respect cannot be demanded or bought. No money in the world with give you respect from others. Your position and job title at the workplace does not earn you respect. Respect is trust from your peers.
Do We Have Poor Leadership In The Mortgage Industry?
Whether it is on the home front or at work, people naturally judge your behavior, demeanor, work habits, what you say, how you say it, what you promise and do you deliver, humbleness, integrity, honesty, and temperament. Once respect is lost, trust and faith are lost. If you hold a position of leadership, whether a supervisor, team leader, manager, Vice President, President, and/or CEO, you are the foundation of your team, group, and/or company. Everything you say, things you promise, decisions you make, policies you implement, and any words spoken get scrutinized. Once words are spoken, you cannot take them back.
Is There Such A Thing As Great Career Opportunities In The Mortgage Industry?
The bottom line is that most mortgage companies with a high turnover rate are due to a poor leadership foundation. If you build a home on a faulty foundation, it is not IF the home will collapse but WHEN. Same with leadership. No matter how large or small a mortgage company is, if the CEO/President does not have a solid leadership foundation based on faith, trust, and integrity, then the organization has a faulty foundation. A faulty foundation in leadership from the CEO will trickle down in a faulty chain reaction from upper-level management on down the food chain. This creates a dysfunctional system where the structure of the business is broken.
The Importance Of Structure And Foundation In Leadership When Seeking Career Opportunities
If general orders and policies have been set, everyone in the organization needs to follow starting with the CEO. Once you make excuses and bend the rules, you are breaking the system and the foundation has now started cracking. From my experience and observation, I believe most mortgage companies have a dysfunctional system that stems from the top. This is the reason why loan officers are not happy and are looking at other mortgage companies to find a stable, functional structure, and solid leadership.
I am not trying to recruit anyone. You read my story and you decide for yourself which route is best for your career path as a loan originator.
The Mission of NEXA Mortgage LLC CEO Mike Kortas
NEXA Mortgage LLC was started in August 2017 by CEO Michael Kortas with a vision. CEO Kortas’ vision was to open a mortgage brokerage with the main mission being all about the loan officer. Give hard-working loan officers the key to success. Every new loan officer at NEXA is given the key to take their destiny how far they want to. Everyone at NEXA Mortgage LLC has the opportunity. Success is different from each person’s individual goals and dreams.
What Is The Definition of a Successful Loan Officer?
One person’s definition of success may be originating and closing five loans a month and having weekends and holidays off. Another individual loan officer’s definition of success may be to open up their own small brick-and-mortar branch in a beach community and market to the locals. Yet, another individual loan officer’s definition of success may want to open up a dozen large brick-and-mortar branches throughout the nation and keep on growing to a multi-billion dollar operation.
What Is The Key To Success?
CEO Mike is giving every single NEXAN the key to success. Up to you, to define what your definition of success is and it is up to you where you want to take it. Totally hands-off policy but when you need support, CEO Kortas and the entire NEXA community will be behind you. NEXA Mortgage LLC was started with only 5 licensed loan officers. Today, CEO Kortas has built an Army of 2,000 licensed loan officers strong.
There is a reason why NEXA Mortgage LLC had such explosive growth in such a short time frame. In a matter of just a few years, the Chandler, Arizona headquartered company made it to the charts, and guess what? It has not stopped. It is expanding faster than ever. Remember the saying, you are who you hang out with. Why not join a winning team and accept the Kortas key to success? Read on.
Career Opportunities Building Successful Mortgage Net Branch
People who know me, know me as a straight shooter and tell it the way it is. I can only be professional for five minutes. I do not believe in lying, cheating, or stealing. Do you remember when your mother told you not to take things that do not belong to you? I would not want anything that I have not earned or worked for. I do not want charity or things that I do not belong to me. After 5 minutes, the WTF comes out. I cannot pretend to like someone I don’t respect or care for.
I respect everyone who is honest, humble, hard-working, loyal, and always goes above and beyond. People I do not respect are the ones that try to beat the system, think they are better than others, do not tell the whole story, are not objective and only look at one side of the story, and do not respect elders. The people I respect are the hard workers, the ones who are humble, the ones not just joining NEXA but you an overall view of the career opportunities available for you as a newly licensed loan officer on getting trained and started in a brand new industry with no experience
