| In the last twenty years, the face of | | | | resources. Employment sites are a great way |
| financial advising and planning in the United | | | | for more experienced professionals to find |
| Kingdom and Europe has changed greatly. Only | | | | job leads and make connections with an local |
| a generation ago, financial planners were | | | | bank or national financial firm. Graduates |
| often left to their own devices to come up | | | | and young professionals can use their |
| with goods and services that would help their | | | | university as a resource, as many British and |
| clients. As well, the means of communication | | | | European universities are creating job |
| only two decades ago was much slower than it | | | | centres and web sites for alumni. Finally, |
| is today. Fax machines and telephones were | | | | banking professionals should use to the |
| favoured technologies for financial planning, | | | | fullest extent their connections through |
| requiring some time to reach clients and | | | | former employers and colleagues to find job |
| financial professionals. However, banks and | | | | leads. However, the best resources for |
| financial planning firms alike have turned | | | | financial and banking professionals looking |
| away from traditional technologies like fax | | | | for a new job are recruiting agencies. These |
| machines and telephones. Financial planners | | | | agencies specialize in providing a full range |
| and advisors are now expected to use new | | | | of services to potential professionals, doing |
| computers, cell phones, and PDAs to get their | | | | all of the promotional work and organization |
| work done. In this way, financial | | | | necessary to find their recruits the job of |
| professionals need to have two distinct sets | | | | their dreams. From application to placement, |
| of skills. Advisors and planners need to have | | | | recruiting agencies of all sizes provide |
| the traditional knowledge of financial | | | | feedback to their recruits as the process |
| markets and services, while also possessing | | | | goes along. Agencies are beginning to provide |
| knowledge of how to use modern technologies. | | | | more advanced options for their recruits, |
| In this way, the job has gotten easier for | | | | including text message job updates and web |
| financial planners in terms of their job | | | | surveys meant to provide feedback to |
| responsibilities while it has gotten more | | | | recruiters. The best approach to finding a |
| harried with the high speed of financial | | | | new financial position is a combination of |
| transactions and communications. Financial | | | | recruiting agencies, the utilization of |
| professionals looking to break into planning | | | | personal connections, and general job sites |
| and consulting positions in the United | | | | can turn the hard work of a job search into |
| Kingdom and Europe can use a variety of | | | | the sweet rewards of a career. |