Sales Agents, Securities & Commodities
Buy and sell securities in investment and trading firms and develop and implement financial plans for individuals, businesses, and organizations.
Also called: Financial Consultant, Investment Advisor, Investment Specialist, Registered Representative
Knowledge:
- customer service
- accounting and economics
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- psychology
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
- Initiative
- Dependability
- Persistence
- Analytical Thinking
Technology:
Financial analysis software
Object or component oriented development software
Desktop communications software
- ADP/Vantra VOLTS
- Imagine Software Imagine Trading System
Education:
certificate after college
