Unlimited earning potential, and at a Great Company
Pros
1. A career in Financial Services can produce incomes into the 7 figures 2. You service people and businesses with benefits, future incomes, financial planning and in doing so, you tend to get close with your clients. This is not only lucrative, but very rewarding as well. 3. The ongoing training is about the best in the industry. I've been doing this for 32 years, and know a great deal about how other companies work/train and compensate their representatives. None do it better than AXA Advisors, period. 4. There is a Real chance of advancing into management. This presents an opportunity to have others generating income for you, and grow your practice into a real business. With this kind of success, you not only feed yourself, but all of your staff as well. 5. Given the diverse product set offered by AXA Advisors, you have a wide choice of what you will specialize in going forward. 6. And, with this product set, you are not marketing products by AXA Advisors on account that AXA Advisors doesn't make products. We give advise, find client needs and wants, and fill them with products from a wide range of companies. 7. To be in this business you need to like/love people. We get the opportunity to learn about everything about our prospects. This means that very quickly we learn of the client's health, financial picture, and much about their personal lives. In other words, we get to know very quickly more than the client's doctor, CPA, attorney and maybe even their clergy person. From this may emerge people who become not only clients, but close friends as well. I do not know of another industry in which people in the business share their knowledge with others, and where best friends are made on account that we're just 'doing our job'.
Cons
1. You will work probably harder than you've ever worked for the first few years. But, when you're far enough along to look back at those "early years", we find out that they were great; that we learned a bunch; that we made friends of other new Financial Professionals, and that we finally know what we're doing. 2. There will be some twilight or early evening meetings, and you'll most likely be working on Saturday mornings for a while. 3. Vacations are hard to plan when you're new in an industry, and don't know where money will come from next week or next month. This may or may not be a problem. If you do well enough, and you don't have to break records to qualify, there are company qualification trips that are beyond great. 4. There's so much that can be learned, and so many ways to utilize what is learned, that confusion reigns for some period of time. 5. As for other Cons, I simply cannot think of any.
