Was introduced to an external wholesaler that works for BlackRock's iShares and quickly hit it off. He referred me to a friend of his in the US Wealth Advisory Division in Princeton, NJ with whom I began speaking with, initially on more of an informational interview level. Met with him on an unrelated trip to NYC and as a result of that he gave my resume to the USWA Retail Sales desk manager to read. Immediately asked to formally apply online for HR purposes. Told to expect a call anytime from within the week to a few weeks. One month later finally receive a call for my phone screen. Basic questions you'd expect: walk me through your resume, why finance, why sales, why BlackRock, tell me about your favorite experience/class before you graduated. Told that could take a week to 3 weeks to hear back. Got an email 2 days later to set up a video conference (I live in Florida, they're in Jersey). VC is first about 30-45 mins with a VP from HR asking basic fit and behavioral questions, went great, nice guy. Next is 45 mins with managing director and sr. associate. more technical questions, market based questions, behavioral questions, walk through resume, etc. Little of everything but went well. Week later get email that I made it to the third and final round. Flew up to NJ, 2 separate rounds of interviews: 1st was with two VPs of different divisions; ask predicted and expected things, including technical, behavioral, situational, markets (know what examples you want to use ahead of time for standard and expected questions). Next was sr. manager from video conference and then the VP of retail sales. VERY targeted and specific questions about everything and anything-all fair game. After that had to give a 10 min mutual fund presentation to a room of about 8 people as if I were the external wholesaler (I was aware of this about 2 weeks prior though so plenty of prep time) followed by a Q&A session. Pretty intimidating. Shake hands, say hear soon. 2.5 weeks later get email of rejection; VP of HR from video conference calls me few days after to reassure me it wasn't due to me doing poorly but was because they needed someone immediately and i had to relocate from florida (and I didn't have much prior sales experience, as I worked at a CPA firm all during undergrad).