HOW IMPORTANT IS NETWORKING TO YOUR CAREER?
There are many constructive and fulfilling opportunities and outcomes in a successful career as a financial advisor.
With the proper education and certification, there are a couple of pathways from which a person can choose.
For example, an ambitious newcomer can get in on the ground floor at an established agency and take the road more travelled, building a clientele and climbing the corporate ladder over the years.
Another choice would be deciding to hang out his or her shingle and take the leap into establishing their own business.
Either way, it’s important to remember that while finance may naturally seem to be a business of and about money, it’s really a business of and about people.
The people you come to know, work with and serve over the span of your career will mean the difference between fulfillment and success or mediocrity and failure.
One of the most important things you can get from your college career, other than the overall experience and the degree itself, of course, is the group of friends and peers that you develop in your time there.
For many people these groups become the core of the budding social and professional networks that they will continue to develop throughout their lives.
For a business that is heavily dependent upon trust, and the referrals that follow out of that trust, these early relationships and those that grow out of them in turn can become the foundation of a fruitful career.
Each person you meet is an opportunity to serve. And if that person doesn’t need your services at the time, they will know someone who does.
But, unless a mutual trust has been established, they won’t give you the opportunity to connect with someone they know unless they can be certain that you will reflect well upon them as the referrer.
Any successful career is a marathon, not a sprint, and that marathon begins with finding the right teacher, coach, or mentor.
Your mentor not only will commit his or her years of experience and training to your development but, over time, they will also introduce and expose you to their own carefully-cultivated network of clients, peers and friends.
In this way, the torch is passed as each professional generation serves as a bridge between those who went before and those who follow.
As you develop your career and grow your own networks, you will, in time, become a leader and mentor in your own right‌
‌contributing to the community, guiding and training the next generation, and leading others on the way to their own successes.
Your career will not be so much a testament to your financial acumen as it will be to your capacity to bring people together and your desire and ability to help them achieve their goals.
Networking is an important and integral factor in the success of many professional careers and it is particularly important to a successful financial advisory career.
This business is first and foremost a service business built on relationships; few products or services invoke a more personal reaction than those associated with food or money.
Financial careers are very much pay-for-performance fields and, like compound interest, their success over time will largely‌
‌ depend upon how much you invest in cultivating relationships in the hours and years at the beginning of your career.
Sometimes the best solution is to contact a recruiter and let them steer you to the perfect job.
Rhino Search Group is a financial advisor recruiting firm that has relationships with all the top firms.
Contact our financial advisor recruiters if you are looking to make a move, or buy/sell a book of business.
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