@MuffinMonarch The stock brokerage business will teach you how to sell. Period. That is all they teach. IBM will do a much better job of teaching you how to sell. Ive been there.
Are you a college graduate? Do you have an MBA? Unless you have your own fortune to lose, don’t even think about being in the business unless you have these two from very good schools. You want to know how to meet the people you want to meet? Go to college and grad school with them….at the good schools.
If you are thinking about starting with your own whimsical ideas of how things work, I would suggest that you first learn how life works and how to meet the people you need to meet. Start with good schools, talk to your professors, talk to your classmates, talk to those just a few years older than you who are doing what you think you want to do. If you dont know those people, then the first thing to do is meet them.
Go to good schools and then get jobs at good firms and don’t be interviewed by those firms. You do the interviewing. If you are going to a good graduate school, then you will have many opportunities to interview for jobs you may like….or not. At least you’ll learn the difference.
Oops, just checked your question. You have graduated from college. Go to graduate school. Forget the CFA until during or after graduate school. In this business, you are nothing without at least an MBA