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CIBC helps its people at all life stages
M
olly Edwards was
enjoying a satisfying
career as a financial
services associate at a
CIBC banking centre in the northern
Ontario city of Sudbury, but there
was something missing in her
personal life. She and her husband
were close to giving up hope of
having a child after two unsuccessful
rounds of in-vitro fertilization. But
when the bank’s benefits were able
to cover a third – and successful –
round, Edwards was overjoyed.
“We genuinely care about our
employees. Our purpose is to
help make their personal and
career ambitions real.”
— Kevin Pyo
Vice President, Pensions,
Benefits and Well-Being
She and her husband relied on
the bank’s extended benefits plan,
which includes fertility treatments,
surrogacy and adoption, to support
the third round and, in December
2022, she gave birth to a daughter.
“I was given the flexibility to travel
to the fertility clinic in Toronto using
personal days and vacation days,”
she says. “My manager and my team
were behind us 100 per cent.”
“We genuinely care about
our employees,” says Kevin Pyo,
vice-president, pensions, benefits
and well-being. “Our purpose is to
help make their personal and career
ambitions real. We have all sorts of
ways in which we help employees
achieve their ambitions. To ensure
long and rewarding careers with
our bank, we provide the benefits
to support their total well-being,
such as fertility coverage, gender
affirmation coverage for trans team
members, and reimbursement for
mental health services – to name a
few.”
CIBC offers a wide range of career
opportunities, from client-facing
contact centre and banking centre
roles to those in wealth management, commercial banking and
capital markets, as well as corporate
and technology positions. “We have
countless examples of employees
who have spent 20, 30 or even 40
years with our bank,” says Pyo.
“Their CIBC careers have encompassed 10 completely different roles
before retirement.”
CIBC encourages employees to
grow their careers by developing
transferable skills. As well, the
bank enables them to explore new
opportunities across various lines of
business.
“We have discussions with our
leaders about where you see yourself
in the bank and where you would
like to go,” says Edwards. “I even had
the opportunity to try a short-term
role to see if I wanted to continue on
that path or not.”
She accepted a short-term secondment to fill in for a banking centre
leader who was on parental leave. “It
was a great experience,” she says.
The bank offers a diverse suite of
learning resources that are available
through a variety of channels,
including digital, virtual, instructor-led in person, and on-the-job
training. CIBC people leaders are
encouraged to provide continuous
coaching as opposed to just annual
performance reviews. Employees are
also supported if they want to pursue
Molly Edwards, financial services associate at CIBC, kept the
ultrasound after the company's benefits covered a successful
fertility treatment.
professional accreditations.
In addition to promoting and
encouraging professional growth,
the bank has also developed a
holistic approach to personal
well-being to support healthy
employees and healthy workplaces,
says Pyo.
$
15,000
“Healthy employees are going to
make for a healthy work environment, and that’s why we put a focus
on meaningful benefits and wellbeing,” he says. “We believe that an
employee who is well is an employee
who is engaged and enabled to be
their professional best.” ¢
$
lifetime coverage for each of
adoption, fertility and surrogacy
5,000
per year for eligible
mental health services
Ambition lives here.
Find your next step with CIBC.
cibc.com/careers
