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