Bring your "A" game - Anonymous employee Edward Jones Employee Review

4.0
Oct 10, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Entrepreneurial environment, lots of opportunities, growing, dynamic company, active incentives to influence firm strategy with big potential upsides from a compensation and career advancement point of view, excellent leadership, great communication. They treat you like an adult. Stable, the finances are well managed - they really do practice what they preach. Long-term perspective. They have a good history of avoiding lay-offs due to financial or market conditions, but they are not afraid to eliminate positions for strategic reasons.

Cons

This is not a forgiving environment - you will be held accountable, and quickly. Help will not be offered except at the beginning - you will have to ask for help and asking for help can be perceived as a sign of weakness if you don't quickly improve. If you don't fit into what your partner expects, you will be unappreciated and under-compensated. Personal relationships matter, sometimes too much. You must manage your own career and pay attention to what is going on around you. The conservative business practices can feel stifling at times. The management structure and culture means that important decisions are often delayed until a consensus can be obtained.

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Holds firm to its conservative investment philosophy.

Cons

The firm has been behind the times for decades. It is great that they are finally trying to get up to speed, but the rate of change is not manageable. There has been a high turnover in support staff and it's hard to get accurate information when needing support. It also seems like they have lost their original focus of being the local friendly financial advisor in your backyard and being accessible to the masses. The focus has shifted to high-net-worth individuals and catering to the wealthy. I've watched several advisors get pushed out because they expressed concern and needed support they weren't receiving. When hired as an advisor I was told I'd receive all of this wonderful training of what to say and how to overcome objections and did not receive any of that training. Most of the training is a high-level overview with homework of figuring it out on your own time. In order to be successful as an advisor at Edward Jones, you need to plan on working 80 hours a week for at least the first five years at the firm with little to no support.

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