Equitable Advisors reviews about "training program"

-Long hours -Difficult licensing exams -Upfront costs

You must be committed. It is not a role for someone with an employee mindset.

As a new employee the training program is not sufficient enough to fully prepare you for what the job actually entails.

With White Collar work, comes White Collar hours in the beginning Hard work, be ready to step out your comfort zone Have to have a lot of sacrifices to secure a strong future

To work at AXA Advisors and maintain your contract you must product a certain amount in commission and sometimes pay for your own materials and events. You are basically a business owner.

- "Flexible schedules" that are not really flexible. Yes you do make your own schedule on a day-to-day basis but that schedule will be riddled with "mandatory" trainings (both local & regional), evening call sessions and Saturday morning work hours. Generally you can take a day off here or there but it is more or less expected that you don't take any time off for the first 3 or so years. They won't tell you no but you'll know they aren't happy in the most passive-aggressive ways possible. - The 403b market is completely saturated with financial salesmen who, because of a minority of past/present advisors, have gained a reputation of distrust and skepticism by the very market you will be selling to, public school employees. The current climate of access to school buildings to prospect for new clients is not good and getting worse. - Compensation. It sucks. That is unless you have an extremely juicy natural market you can sell expensive, underperforming financial products to without feeling that lingering sense of screwing over you family and friends. P.S.- the salary option is a joke. what they don't tell you is that there is a whole list of expenses that they take out of it and put back in their pockets. I.e.- Liability @ $250/month, Brokerage fees ~$40/month plus others I can't remember. Just don't expect that $2k/month salary to actually be $2k. Commission get cut in half when you're on salary as well. - Trainings are often boring, repetitive and more times then not feel like a drain on your time to get actual work done. The trainings consist SOLEY of selling techniques. Think you're going to be learning about actual finance? Nope, not a chance. They teach you how to sell for better or for worse, depending on how you look at it.

It is difficult building your own business. This includes generating your own clients, and generating referrals through them and other means of prospecting.

*A little challenging to get started. If you do not want to work hard and are not self motivated then this probably isn't for you.

It takes a couple months to start up with little pay so if you can manage that, the benefits that follow are great.