Not a good experience for me - Private Client Director Fisher Investments Employee Review

It's a sales job. Pure and simple. Fisher advertise for highly qualified financial professionals, but in reality the job is about meeting clients and selling the Fisher proposition - very little flexibility is allowed in the sales process. You are expected to follow a very strict process - if this works for you and you are successful then great, you can earn a good salary. However for many this doesn't suit. The FSA Register clearly shows many Private Client Directors last six months or less. Training and Competency (other than instruction on selling the proposition in the correct way) is minimal and anyone who isn't performing will not last twelve months (the point at which employment legislation kicks in). This means a highly pressurised selling environment with the constant threat of sacking hanging over all newly recruited PCD's. Even those who last longer than twelve months are constantly stressed out with threats of performance management and you are never more than one poor month away from having every single bit of your daily work scrutinised.