Financial Advisor - Financial Advisor Edward Jones Employee Review

3.0
28 Oct 2015
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Pros

- Great Mentors - Company pays for licensing - Intensive preparation to pass licensing - Great Training

Cons

- Pay 35k to start (You can make this much as an assistant manager at burger king!) - Door to Door sales --- I thought how difficult can this be? right? well, wrong!! Very, very difficult. You must be ready to face rejection daily, every minute of your day. There is no guidance as to what neighborhoods to door knock so you are half blind hoping however answers the door has money, granted we are passed the shutting the door on your face, getting the cops called on and unsafe neighborhoods. Very very long hours to try to build your business 13+ easily writing thank you cards until 11pm at night. I am sure it can be a very rewarding career later, but not willing to sacrifice my life at such extent. ohh and Don't forget the weather conditions of your particular region. 110 degrees outside? guess what? you and your suit are sweating like pigs door knocking 1000 houses a day to be lucky and get a hand full of phone numbers, half wrong (because most sane people don't give out their phone numbers to a stranger at their door step) and the other half with no intention to do business. Very disappointed that there was no pipeline to get people started or any kind of leads.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

- Decent benefits programs. - Teammates who cared about the quality of work they provided and the people they worked with. - Direct superiors who were people of integrity that I respect immensely and wish nothing but the best for.

Cons

- Recent removal of remote work for all associates regardless of how long they had worked remotely previously (13 years in my case). This push to onsite work will damage long term profitability and likely cause a mass exodus of talented associates (if it has not already). - Massive amount of offshore outsourcing that has greatly reduced the quality of work at the home office. - Lack of flexibility regarding work schedules that has severely damaged work-life balance.

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