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Learn the ins-and-outs of recruiting, hiring, and training talent.

Check out our recently-released 9-part course, “Building Your Dream Team: Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Talent in Financial Planning.”

You'll learn...

» How the financial planning industry is changing, and how that impacts your hiring lifecycle

» Our process for recruiting

» How to correctly make an offer to applicants

» How to attract rockstar hires that stay with your company

And much more!

Caleb's new book, Successful Hiring for Financial Planners, has been released!

Successful Hiring for Financial Planners delivers a comprehensive plan to help your firm grow so you can serve the consumers who are in need of your guidance the most.

Praise for Successful Hiring...

“Successful Hiring is by far your best how-to guide to getting the right people on your bus and successfully navigating the future talent shortage in the financial planning profession.”

– Bob Veres, author, The New Profession

“Successful Hiring for Financial Planners is the go-to, comprehensive guide to recruiting, hiring, and training, new financial planners. If you're thinking about hiring for your firm, read this book.”

– Alan Moore, CFP®, Co-Founder, XY Planning Network

“In this essential guide, Caleb offers practical tools and techniques to optimize your hiring process to ensure that you identify and attract the candidates who are the best fit for your firm. A must read for firms focused on growth.”

– Dave Yeske, CFP®, Co-Founder Yeske Buie

“A talent shortage is on the horizon for our profession. Brown’s Successful Hiring for Financial Planners is the guide Abacus’s needs to compete for the best talent and more importantly, invest in that talent for our future success. From tips on working with younger generations to templates for a turnkey recruiting system, the book is a must read.”

– Cheryl Holland, CFP®, President & Founder, Abacus Planning Group

“Successful Hiring for Financial Planners is a must-read for any advisor who wants to expand their firm. Caleb shares strategies for hiring not just next-generation talent, but also for better managing the hiring process, including when to start planning for your next hire, how to evaluate new hires – as well as yourself -- and then integrate new talent successfully into your firm.”

– Kate Healy, Managing Director, Generation Next, TD Ameritrade Institutional

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Your Financial Planning Conference Guide

Summer is over, school is back in session and cooler temperatures mean the official start of conference season in the financial planning profession. This is a fun and exciting time and a way for you to catapult your career to new levels of success!  Attending conferences is a great way to gain a better understanding...

Is Your Interview Process Too Lengthy?

Everyone who follows these articles knows that our approach is to be as thorough and precise as possible when it comes to candidate selection. At what point, though, does a hiring process become too lengthy and a deterrent for job seekers? Since, the current demand for new planners is high and supply is small, the...

Setting Reasonable Expectations for New Planners Part 2 of 2

Last month we discussed what expectations are generally unreasonable for a new planner hire and this month we look at what firm owners SHOULD expect from their new planner.  As I mentioned last month, not all new financial planners are equal. Nonetheless it’s reasonable to have some solid, but realistic expectations for a good candidate...

Setting Reasonable Expectations for New Planners Part 1 of 2

Throughout my career I have witnessed firm owners’ frustrations with new planners they have hired or were interviewing. Their frustrations stem from lack of clarity on what type of education a new planner receives and what can be expected of them. Also, firm owners sometimes don’t know what role they are trying to fill so...