Vantaggi
Great Training for sales, Get in the right region and the Vet FA's will help you and will be genuine about it. Home office is great support, hard work will pay off, and they will give you a salary to help you until you get your feet on the ground.
Svantaggi
Get in the wrong region and it will be a hellish place to work, a lot of Edward Jones offices in the area makes it hard to do "Face to Face" (Door Knock), Will allow other offices to poach your accounts if they are high producers, want you to concentrate on sales on planning, Health Care deductible is way to high, they hold your hand and have portfolios made for you, they do not support your outside mutual funds so if you provide them and something goes wrong you pay for your own lawyer, the mutual you will provide create a conflict of interest for you because they are sharing in revenue with the mutual fund companies, stick with an outdated business model, low pay at beginning even with salary, and they only care how much money you make if you don't make enough then they try and push you out. You will work 65-80 hours a week. Edward Jones claims that they pay for everything, but they do not. You have to cover your own costs. It pretty much comes out of your pocket. Behind on times.