Vantaggi
Edward Jones is willing to throw some money at you to study for your licenses and pass out their advertising brochures door to door.
Svantaggi
If you are lucky enough to get a good knight or takeover an office where someone is retiring, you'll be fine. Unfortunately, these opportunities are usually given to relatives of the retiring FA, or those in corporate who know where to move. Don't believe you can make it from scratch. You can't. Those days are over and the nation is infiltrated with established Edward Jones offices, who are your competition. This is a dangerous job, especially for women, who are sent out to knock on stranger's doors for up to 3 years, unarmed and unprotected (It's against company policy to carry a weapon). In the first few weeks of door knocking, you will be passing out your cellphone number (handwritten on the back of their advertising brochure) to these strangers until Edward Jones gets you a business line. You are expected to get 25 phone numbers per day for 7 weeks from these strangers, and attend meetings with your foundation trainer-That is, if they have time to see you. Don't expect to learn about investments. Expect to spend 12 hours per day knocking to get your numbers. You will not have a business card or anything of value to offer anyone, not even an office...Just get the phone number and tell them you're opening "a practice". You will not get a real office for over a year... Could be 3 years. After 7 weeks, if you have 350+ phone numbers, you will be sent back to St Louis to call these strangers you know very little about to sell them something they don't need or want while someone from corporate listens in on your calls. At this "Eval/Grad", Jones will tell you that "you can't hurt them by selling them J&J, for example. When you return from Eval/Grad, expect to door knock for a few more years, rain or shine, sub zero temperature or heat. It doesn't matter. Just do it...and get those phone numbers!