Career success highly dependent on favoritism and AUM given as a new employee - Financial Advisor Edward Jones Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Lots of flexibility with work autonomy -Don't need prior experience or licenses to become an FA

Cons

-If starting new, with no AUM or clients, you will most likely fail -Favoritism for certain FAs and you may end up getting the short end of the stick -Full of promises of great office near where you live and an assistant, reality is you may end up 40minutes away from your home with a useless assistant. -Performance standards are similar whether you were given a few million in assets or 0 and may be difficult to reach -You will be making close to minimum wage

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Pros

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Cons

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