St. James's Place Financial Adviser Academy
Build a New Career | Become a Financial Adviser | No Financial Services Experience Required
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Are you considering a career change? Build a long-term career that's yours. 🚀
At the St James's Place Financial Adviser Academy, we help people like you build a career with purpose, real financial reward and most importantly- a career that adds significant value to the lives of your clients. Even if you've never worked in Financial Services before (almost half of our Financial Adviser Academy intakes have no prior Financial Services experience), we can help you transition into the in-demand career- either working with you to set up your own practice, or working for one of the 2500+ practices within our partnership.
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Why become a Financial Adviser?
- You don't need experience in Financial Services.
- What you do need is ambition, empathy, and a desire to help others.
Benefits:
- We'll give you all the training, tools, and support you need.
- You can build your own client base and autonomously run your own practice, or join one of our 2500+ established businesses.
- Make a real difference to people's lives by delivering positive outcomes for them.
Who we're looking for:
People who are:
- In a professional career (with 5+ years experience in their field)
- Motivated to build a new, long term professional career
- Great with people and driven to succeed
- Strong networkers
- Emotionally intelligent and put client's needs before their own
- Committed, driven, and resilient
- Capable of strong and consistent business development activity
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Our Academy will equip you with everything you need to become a qualified Financial Adviser and no prior experience of Financial Services is required. If you're ready for more from your career, let's talk.
A new career. A future you control. Let's build it- together.
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