Hey everyone, I am 19 years old, have 3 years of working experience (fast food, and retail management), am a year in to my bachelors in Finance degree and currently trying to find a job in the finance space. I recently have submitted an application for EJ and just had a few questions.

1. How hard is it to get hired by EJ? I am really hoping to get accepted for the position to build some knowledge and in field experience. I checked today, and I was the only person who has applied for the position, according to linkedin

2. What happens if there are multiple offices/agents in my area? For instance, my town has 3 different EJ advisors and they all have different offices. Will I be assigned to work for one, or will I be on my own?

Right off the bat, I'll be very selective in what I say because a lot of the process is confidential. I wanted to make this post to the person going through the process so they have some clarity though.

I was officially hired and start studying in about a month. I first applied a little over 3 1/2 mo. ago. So, yes it takes a long time. Now to EJ I am probably the perfect candidate so a little about me as a long time reader first time poster.

I studied finance after getting my associate's degree and was roughly 2 semesters from obtaining said degree. The issue was prerequisites and time at that particular university. Had a ton of outside credits. Otherwise, it would have been done sooner. Then something called COVID-19 came around. So that was great. Got a wonderful lady pregnant accidentally who is now my wife an mom to two amazing toddlers and one on the way. However, I never finished my bachelor's. Something I fully plan on doing in the near future though. I am 26 at the time of this post and have been working as an entrepreneur in a B2B service-based company I started a little over 2 years ago. Lets just say I clean a ton of toilets, well my employees do. Employees are tough though. And my many mentors kept suggesting EJ as getting into the FA space for the past year. I finally looked into it. EJ offers an okay base salary to start that tapers off into commission only. The commission structure is pretty competitive, I don't like everything about the system, but for a family man, it seems like a good fit.

So what the heck took so long? Well, when I first applied the recruiter wanted to see if me being an owner in a real estate company would be a problem (which I will relinquish control of once I start the study program). Took about 14 days to hear back on that. You know, compliance. Then was the actual interview which took a week to get set up with the recruiter. Then another week for the in-person interview with an FA in the proposed region. At this point I should say that the whole team at EJ is stellar in my area. All around good people. Everyone in St. Louis seems to be kindhearted and wonderful as well. Then was sent info to write out a business plan but didn't need it right way, however. Once that was done, took about 2 weeks but got invited to participate in their assessment.

Little about the assessment without sharing any specifics. Be yourself. They created it to see if you will be able to jive with different personalities. Take it at face value and nothing else. It truly is a sneak peak into the day and life of an FA. So just enjoy the process and make it fun. As long as you have experience cold calling and talking to different voices you'll be good.

After the assessment it took about a week and the main recruiter calls and tells you the results and asks some questions about your business plan and plan of action that you followed. They then ask some other interview questions and then share their findings with the hiring team.

The next process took longer than they first thought but it was about finding me an actual office to share with a veteran FA. They want to one, pair me with someone who I can get along with, two, service the clients I will be taking on effectively, and three make sure that it would be a good fit for me too. Obviously, this isn't a career change I have to do. But something I want to do so I planned on being picky. Honestly, the veteran FA I'll be sharing an office space with is a great dude and I think it'll be awesome.

After I met with him, I talked with the recruiter once more, they explained the next steps which is a pretty thorough and extensive background. Honestly, the hardest part was the fact that I have moved so dang much over the last 10 years. Trying to remember all those addresses was a challenge. They check everything, from the way my businesses were structured, tax returns, credit, and employment history. The whole 9. Make sense being two simple facts, one is that I'll be an FA and they want to make sure I can morally handle the situation, two is, EJ will be investing at least half a million into me over the next 3 years before I become profitable. As a business owner right now I can appreciate this cautiousness.

TL;DR
All in all a 10/10 process although very long 4ish months start to finish.

Not a lot of hand-holding. If you have an entrepeneur or teacher's attitude they will absolutely hire you.

I am curious of people's experience going through EJ's bring process.

I have completed all steps including the "day in the life" test which they told me I did well as I hit all of the marks they were looking for.

But the day of what I believed to be my final interview I checked the career website to see that they had filled the position I applied for (before my final I terrier which I thought was strange) and moved me into a generic Regional Postion.

The recruiter told me my initial salary but that I would not recieve the official offer until the powers at be find me a location and experienced Advisor to train with. The recruiter also said they would get intouch with me in a week and a half yet 2 weeks with no word.

The career website says I'm still in the Interview process. Over this process I have emailed and left voicemails regarding different things and not one time have I received a response.

Is it just me or do the EJ Recruiter suck at their job? I have dealt with professional recruiters for years and I've never seen this level of what I consider unprofessionalism.

I'm still holding my breath on this as I am looking for a career change.

Just curious of other people's experience.