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Do you have any tips to help prepare for an upcoming financial advisor interview?

Are there common interview questions that come up again and again?

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nader in Los Angeles, California

27 months ago

why are you interested in becoming a financial advisor and why would you make a good one. i gaurantee this question will be asked.

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parsnips in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom

25 months ago

nader in Los Angeles, California said: why are you interested in becoming a financial advisor and why would you make a good one. i gaurantee this question will be asked.

i am interested in fiancial advising because i am good with numbers and not much else also i have a decent memory. i think i will be a good fiancial advisor because i can remember numbers using a decent memory also i enjoy using numbers at school apart from pe it is the only thing i really enjoy

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Huh? in Greer, South Carolina

13 months ago

Parsnips, you can't be serious with a brain dead response like that. Please don't play with anyone's money. Ever.

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Ric in Norfolk, Virginia

13 months ago

A better response would be to give a short list of ways you'd like to help people with the products that the adviser has to offer. Also, that you like talking to and learning about people, and consider yourself a people person, who has trained to advise people, financially.

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living in reality in New Castle, Delaware

12 months ago

If you want to work your own hours, get highy paid whether your are in the office or not, and like having a nice lifestyple, then FA is a good choice, especially becoming a finacial invesetmen tadviser. As for where to start, look for an existing FIA prducer and an insurance adviser company and learn how to sell. Smaller companies are better than the bigger, popular companies. Eventually you will stay because you like it or leave because you want to start you own. This way you will get to know the ropes (very important). Stay away fom large insurance companies and away from negative people, like in the last two post. Nether one knows what there talking about and if there are in the business, they obvisiouly not making any money.

Howeever, despite what many advisers say to you, people do not really care about financial training. Most people only care about the asset returns. Afterall, that's what they are investing in you for. I say this bexause so many advisersors delute themselves and forget that they are just a sales tool to gather assets. And, regardless of who is to blame and despite how nice you are, many people will blame you for the losses and leave, regardless of who is at fault. If you can understand that and have ambition and work you will do really well. Also, Understand that becasue people only focus on returns there is a lot of compliance. Don't make the mistake of working with a broker dealer or a insurance broker but work with an Fiancial Investment advisor that does seminars and newsletter. 99% of advisers make this mistake and leave with in 5 years. Do this and you will be a superstar, travel a lot, and make a great and fun living.

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wondering in Rockford, Illinois

12 months ago

living in reality in New Castle, Delaware said: If you want to work your own hours, get highy paid whether your are in the office or not, and like having a nice lifestyple, then FA is a good choice, especially becoming a finacial invesetmen tadviser. As for where to start, look for an existing FIA prducer and an insurance adviser company and learn how to sell. Smaller companies are better than the bigger, popular companies. Eventually you will stay because you like it or leave because you want to start you own. This way you will get to know the ropes (very important). Stay away fom large insurance companies and away from negative people, like in the last two post. Nether one knows what there talking about and if there are in the business, they obvisiouly not making any money.

Howeever, despite what many advisers say to you, people do not really care about financial training. Most people only care about the asset returns. Afterall, that's what they are investing in you for. I say this bexause so many advisersors delute themselves and forget that they are just a sales tool to gather assets. And, regardless of who is to blame and despite how nice you are, many people will blame you for the losses and leave, regardless of who is at fault. If you can understand that and have ambition and work you will do really well. Also, Understand that becasue people only focus on returns there is a lot of compliance. Don't make the mistake of working with a broker dealer or a insurance broker but work with an Fiancial Investment advisor that does seminars and newsletter. 99% of advisers make this mistake and leave with in 5 years. Do this and you will be a superstar, travel a lot, and make a great and fun living.


what is the difference between a broker/dealer and a financial investment advisor?

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Emma in Vancouver, British Columbia

1 month ago

I was a Financial Advisor with my employer for over 10 years so I felt pretty rusty when it came to being in an interview. I researched interview questions and prepared my response and it really helped me out. Here are some good job interview questions. Good luck!

blog.hrinmotion.com/2009/06/22/financial-planner-financial-advisor-financial-services-representative-job-interview-question/

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Charles0001 in Alpharetta

29 days ago

I can suggest a site from which I got useful tips and advices to become a best Financial Advisors. I hope this will help you to get useful tips and advices....

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Charles0001 in Alpharetta

29 days ago

I can suggest a site www.gentlerainaffluentmarketing.com/ from which I got useful tips and advices to become a best Financial Advisors. I hope this will help you to get useful tips and advices....

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