Cornerstone Mortgage take steps to grow its own

Turnover in the mortgage business can be high and, when times are good, poaching is commonplace. That’s why Cornerstone Mortgage has come up with a different idea of how new loan originators should be recruited and trained.

Grow Our Own is a program geared toward the next generation of finance professional, enrolling college students and recent graduates in both intern and junior loan originator programs to teach them the mortgage business, according to Jim Hunter, program visionary and a loan officer at one of Cornerstone’s two Fort Collins offices.

The program uses connections with area universities like CSU and UNC to find…