So I am a recent college grad looking to work in financial advising/wealth management, but 3 of the companies I have interviewed with start off with zoom group meeting talking about “how much money you can make by building your book of business” and that’s about it. Is this a standard thing? Because it’s really starting to seem like some of the companies are MLM or some kind of scam. I don’t mind working hard or having to start from scratch but I’m just curious if this is an industry standard?

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Sounds like Northwestern Mutual and NY Life. Where they asked for a friends and family list of names, emails and phone numbers...

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Yeah one was NorthWestern actually another was called Tristate Financial and they are affiliated with Florida financial advisors

Don’t work for a company that starts like that. Trust me.

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