Comments on: How to be a Stock Broker? ? http://www.businessbrokersguide.com/blog/how-to-be-a-stock-broker/ Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: wildbirdie http://www.businessbrokersguide.com/blog/how-to-be-a-stock-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-789 wildbirdie Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:59:45 +0000 http://www.businessbrokersguide.com/blog/how-to-be-a-stock-broker/#comment-789 Get a job with a brokerage house as a trainee. You can't sign up for the Series 7 yourself. A broker/dealer that employs you has to sign you up. You don't need to know anything about stock or business because the company will cover what you need to know in the training class. Being a stock broker is a sales job. Given the choice between hiring a successful used car salesman or someone with an MBA in finance, many brokers would prefer the guy with sales experience. Get a job with a brokerage house as a trainee. You can’t sign up for the Series 7 yourself. A broker/dealer that employs you has to sign you up.

You don’t need to know anything about stock or business because the company will cover what you need to know in the training class. Being a stock broker is a sales job. Given the choice between hiring a successful used car salesman or someone with an MBA in finance, many brokers would prefer the guy with sales experience.

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