If you are starting a broker or advisor career, this book will help you. This industry is too large to rely on heresay or what one particular brokerage firm is telling you. We work with hundreds of them - training their employees for the Series 7, Series 6 and other exams. Most firms are not all the same. Your career goals and specialties may not be the same.

Features include:

• Introduction to a career as a stockbroker and financial advisor
• How companies hire
• Firms to avoid
• Discussion of all licenses and ones you should consider
• Working as an Independent Broker
• How Large firms and small work
• and More career information....

Building a career as a Financial Advisor, Insurance Broker or Stockbroker requires pre-knowledge information in not only the requirements, but understanding truly what it takes to succeed as a broker or financial planner. This book cuts through the haze of the snippets of information you find on the Internet. It not only speaks to how to become a stockbroker, but discusses the types of firms to choose from, the salary to expect, the commission structures and more.

Series 7 Sponsorship and information on how to become an independent financial planner are discussed.