Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-03-03


been working for the firm three OF
four years, say, he will be getting S2t
a week, and will be in a direct line o
promotion.
1t will not be long till he will be
regular investigator on the firms stat
at a weekly salary of s25 to $40, ant
will be becoming a fair judge o.
human nature, and filled with informa
ton about hundreds of people. Wher
a newcomer applies for credit, wish
ing to purchase a fair-sized bill o.
furniture, or to open a regular account
to be paid monthly, or to get stock fol
a little store he plans to start fol
himself, your boy will be the one tt
get all information about the appli
cant on which to base his firms atti
tude toward him. And his opinion
after he has made his investigation
will be taken without further testi
mony
Of course, your boy is bound to be
manager of the credit department; fol
that is what he has been preparing
for, and this will come, perhaps, by
the time he is 80 or a little less, &C.
cording to the zeal and intelligence
and keennesS that he has shown IN
lower positions. From an investigator,
or detective of promise, who is given
some of the most intricate cases to
handle, and when he earns probably
$50 a week, he is made assistant man
ager, if the establishment is of con-
siderable size, at $4,000 to $4,000 a
year. and then manager, which pays
anything from $4,000 up TO $4,000
according to the magnitude of the
business.
BY this time he is one ct the most
important men connected with the
firm-some say the credit man is the
most Importation his opinion will
be accepted as to the trustworthiness
of anybody and everybody that wishes
to buy goods, and he has become an
authority on human nature. Ere
uuently he will be able to read man
at sight, so great will have been his
experience and the acumen that has
Of this faculty will save his company
from losses that might amount to
thousands of dollars through the I'M
wise extension of credit.
OF course such a man is bound to
be a member of the firm, If he re
mains with it; but in this case he
would be succeeded IN the credit de
partment by another direct manager
and himself would exercise only ind1
rect supervision. If his ambition led
toward continuing the credit line, he
would be a likely candidate for the
management of a credit association
either one of the large Independent
institutions, such as Bradstreets OF
Duns, or one that has been formed by
merchants or others in a single gen
eral line for mutual protection, such
as the lumbermen's, or the credit as
ISOLATION of retail merchants in New
York city.
In these cases his services would
be almost invaluable; for it IS within
his powers to be one of the few men
really competent W IOHuuCC SUN
business with absolute justice, pro
tecting his firm or associates against
deadbeats and irresponsibles, and at
the same time being SO just as not to
lose customers. Some men are en-
tirely worthy of credit for few hun
drcd dollars, but could not be safely
trusted for two or three thousand;
Just as q man might be able to pay
monthly irstalments of, say, $25, but
could not afford $50, though he might
delude himself into thinking he could.
The keen credit man. such as your boy
may become, often knows men better
than they know themselves.
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