Recruiting

Ep #101: Setting Yourself Apart with Angie Herbers

Angie Herbers is the Founder and Senior Consultant with Herbers and Company, a consulting firm specializing in assisting financial planning firms to solve their growth challenges. If you are seeking to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack, then this is an episode for you! Listen in as Angie shares why firms with a clear recruiting strategy have an advantage over their competitors, what skills firms are looking for the most in new planner hires, and what skills are most lacking from ...

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Feb18

Ep #70: Insights from a Chief Talent Officer with Nate Nassif

Nate Nassif is a Talent Management Consultant with a specialty in organizational design, career development, diversity and inclusion, performance measurement, and employee life cycle management. He joins the show today to share his perspective on hiring, culture, and leadership within a large RIA firm. Listen in as Nate shares why culture and culture fit are crucial elements to a successful employment relationship, how job seekers can find the best opportunities with top firms, and how they can ...

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Feb11

Ep #69: How to Become a Top Tier Candidate with Jayla Blakemore

Jayla Blakemore is an Account Executive at New Planner Recruiting, and she joins the show today to talk about how she made her way into financial planning at the University of Georgia—and eventually found her way to my team. If you're in a CFP program and are looking at alternative career paths outside of the lead advisor role, this is an episode you won’t want to miss! Listen in as we discuss what made Jayla change her major from psychology to financial planning, what made her realize she ...

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Jul16

Ep #41: New Planner Turned Hiring Manager with Sean Alford

Sean Alford is a Senior Financial Planner and Investment Solutions Manager with CFO4Life, an RIA based out of Coppell, TX. He joins the show today to share his career path, from graduating from a CFP undergraduate program to finally finding a good career fit in his current firm and transitioning to a recruiting and hiring role within that firm. Listen in as Sean discusses the recruiting process he went through to join CFO4Life, the career trajectory he has been on over the last few years, and ...

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Jul02

Ep #39: Portfolio Management Career Focus with Alex Jenkins

Alex Jenkins is the Vice President, Relationship Director, and Investment Specialist with Avantis Investors based out of Charlotte, NC. He joins the show today to discuss his career path from engineering to finance and what it’s like in an institutional money management firm structure. Listen in as Alex shares what first got him interested in the profession and why he changed his focus from engineering to finance. You'll learn why the decision to move across the country for a new role helped to ...

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May28

Ep #34: Getting Hired in Financial Planning with Shannon O’Toole

Shannon O’Toole is the founder of Shannon O’Toole Coaching, a coaching firm based on St. Louis that specializes in employee engagement and retention in the financial planning space. Shannon has 20 years of experience in the industry and has a wealth of knowledge about the good and bad of recruiting and human resources. In this episode, Shannon shares the number one thing that career seekers can do when beginning their job search, why money is not everything when it comes to evaluating ...

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