Fidelity Investments

Fidelity makes an excellent place to kickstart a career. They may be a financial institution but they have something for everyone. Moving around internally is very common as people find roles that more fit what they want and I find this very valuable in a business. Great corporate culture, strong...

Working on Wall St. can often lead to conflicting opinions and arguments fueled by ego. As an English major, you'll be better equipped to articulate your position and defend your actions than any MBA. In fact, most people with an MBA can't even spell MBA.

If you have landed an interview, it is because your resume has convinced them that you are smart and have good experience, so don’t spend all of you time focusing on your qualifications. The most important part of the interview is convincing them that you are the kind of person that they want to ...

A technical intern gets assigned to a manager at Fidelity, so the day in the life of an intern varies for each intern depending on what work their manager gives them. A manager is also usually given at least 2 interns, so an intern isn't working alone on their assignments. During my interview pro...

Great management support, I'd say. Fidelity has the culture to promote from within and if you know your stuff and have a plan, you can be picked within just a month or two for another role. Management also provides a three month paid training in the beginning to get you adjusted in your role.

The work-life balance at Fidelity is incredible. I have never felt like I had to work more than an average workweek, and Fidelity really emphasizes social and physical health through resource groups, on-site gyms, cafeterias that subsidize healthy meals, a generous amount of PTO, and plenty of ot...

Fidelity Investments has a very employee-centric culture. The company has plenty of incentives to encourage employees to come up with new ideas to improve a process or automate a process for example. All suggestions are taken seriously and discussed to consider its feasibility. The company also e...

I would suggest integrating yourself with the team as much as you can. Be present in meetings, ask questions, get to know the team and what each person is responsible for. Showing genuine curiosity is always helpful. I would also suggest asking for feedback regularly - that way if there is room f...

In order to succeed at this job it is important to know how to work with others and build a network amongst your peers. This company puts a huge emphases on how they treat one another as family and how that makes a successful company. If you know you have a passion for trading and brokerage, fina...

Fidelity has an array of obtaining mentors. You can simply ask anyone, join many of the networking groups, or align with department ambassadors. For example I was able to align with a mentor through the women's networking group. For me a mentor really assists with networking and getting to kno...

It depends! I could be doing research, writing memos, reviewing documents, preparing a chronology based on review of documents, attending meetings, or some combination of all of those things. The cases all involve financial services and investment products, so comfort with numbers and economics i...

Succeeding here comes from a combination of understanding the business need/application, and the software development skills to get it done. There are a lot of different technologies used, and your not expected to know it all coming in, so being open to learn, and willing to ask questions about t...

Fidelity, like many companies, is transitioning to an Agile work structure as opposed to traditional PM and the waterfall approach. Having had prior SCRUM experience helped me in getting an amazing start on my team as it saved them time from having to teach me the basics. I found that we worked w...

The ability to communicate with people from all backgrounds and be willing to ask questions when you genuinely do not understand something. To them it looks like you are overly invested and eager to learn about what they do everyday.

The Financial Client Advocate, also known as a financial representative, is an intensive service role. You will be working with clients with as little as a dollar in their account, to someone with millions. Having customer service experiences and qualities are very important to highlight. Some ex...

In general, the starting salary for this role is between 38k-44k + monthly or quarterly bonuses and a sign on bonus of between 1000-3000. They will also pay for your licensing and registration with FINRA. This is a very common across the industry.

From this role, you can either move up into sales, which eventually leads to a career in financial planning or you can become a financial services support member, which works with specific areas in retail investment accounts. This position is a good introduction into getting a better understandin...

Think carefully about the experience you already have so that you can answer questions thoughtfully and with some detail. Also, gain a basic understanding of what Fidelity does because their business covers a broad range of financial services. They manage retirement plans and retirement investmen...

f you decide to apply for my role you should be prepared for a rigorous licensing process. The company does a great job of equipping you for the Series 7 and Series 63 exams, but the hard work is up to you! You need the licenses to perform the job, that is non negotiable. Bring your winning perso...

When you start, $25000 is where you should be starting from. In addition to this, you get performance appraisals, team bonuses, great health benefits and employee perks, and one of the best employer provided retirement plans I have ever seen. Any finance certificate exams you need, the company wi...