By Jay Ashley

If you desire to become a surgeon, you need to take an approved pre-med course before going to medical school. Then you have to pass the medical exam and so forth. The career path from step 1 to the end for doctors, lawyers, and the likes are well-defined. But if you want to become a successful broker, well, that’s when things might get a little confusing.

You Can Start Preparing As Early as High School

If at fifteen, you’ve an unsually clear vision of what you want to be in the future, you could get a headstart already by taking advance courses on math, bookkeeping, and investment. Anything that has to do with numbers will be of great help.

Choose Your Course in College Carefully

There is no four-year course that you could enrol in to become a stock broker. The best you can do is choose a college course that will teach you more about business. Such courses include but are not limited to commerce, accounting, management, and economics. Those are pretty broad courses and it’s up to you where you want to major in. Afterwards, you can also choose to go further by studying for a master’s degree. Clients are always more impressed with stock brokers that have MBAs attached to their names so you don’t have to worry about it being an unsmart investment. It’s not.

Investing in Psychology Courses

Although we don’t think you have to go as far as majoring in psychology to improve your future as a stock broker, we do believe that it will aid you in your career if you take a few psychology classes to strengthen your understanding of the human mind.

How to Get Started

Since most courses will require you to have on-the-job training, be sure to take advantage of this by choosing a well-known stock brokerage firm to work for. It’s better if you have an impressive academic standing to make the hiring decision easier for them. If they like you enough, they might even offer you a permanent job once you’ve graduated. When you’ve been accepted, absorb as much knowledge as you can from your superiors. You’ll learn a lot by observation alone. Don’t be afraid to take a few risks. Experience can teach you a lot!

Licenses and Extra Training

You will have to take an exam before you’ll be granted a license to operate as a stock broker. Study well for that. Better yet, consider acquiring more training from a brokerage academy. These workshops rarely last more than a few months.

Making a Good First Impression

Let’s start with your appearance first. While you don’t have to go Clark-Kent mode and opt for the starchy business suits and nerdy-looking glasses, you must ensure that you look very confident and presentable. If you want to have a little bit of your personality shown and distinguish you from the rest of the stock broker crowd, play it safe by letting it all out through your neckties (for men) or brooches (for women).

How to Interact with Clients

Be respectful and courteous. Never fail to greet them with the usual pleasantries, open doors, and pulling chairs for your clients.

Listen to their concerns. The best type of stock broker is one who knows when to assert his opinion and when to concede to his client’s wishes. But before doing any of that, you must make sure that you’ve heard everything the client has to say.

Last of all, be honest. Don’t let greed get to you. You’ll earn more if you have a good reputation to support you. Good luck!

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