Financial Advisor Development Program

About the Financial Advisor Development Program

Are you looking for an opportunity designed to help you launch a full-time career? Are you ready for an opportunity to challenge yourself and work alongside industry professionals? Have you been looking for a career with independence, uncapped income potential, and makes a true impact? Our development program provides our students with the guidance thru mentorship, connection, and framework on how to build an integrated financial planning practice from the ground up. If this sounds like you, our entrepreneurial career might be the right fit to explore!

• Development - If you're ambitious about building your future, we're ambitious about helping you get there. Students who go through our program will get a hands on experience and guidance from leaders, experts, and mentors who are invested in their success. You learn skills you will use for life: 
  • Financial Planning - in all areas from insurance to investments
  • How to run a business & achieve business goals
  • How to build & foster relationships with your clients
  • Networking & sales skills
• Future Potential - Our approach to your development program is to have strong performers join us as full-time advisors. Regardless if your future is in a financial advisor role, your experience will amplify your future career potential for years to come. Over 55% of our local leadership started with our development/internship program. 
  • Top 5 Finance Internship - Vault Guides to Internships
  • Top 5 Real World Experience - Vault Guides to Internships
  • Top 10 Overall Career Experience - Vault Guides to Internships
  • Top 100 Internship Programs - Yello + WayUp
• Impact - With over 165 years of expertise & stability, leading the industry in financial strength, Northwestern Mutual's complete set of financial solutions and tools are designed to address every side of your client's life and allow you to bring a personalized approach to those people and the communities you feel most passionate about helping to provide a peace of mind and ease to financial anxiety and ultimately help your clients achieve their financial goals. 
  • Leading the Industry in Financial Strength - Total Company Assests $387 Billion
  • Top 5 US Independent Broker Dealer - Wealth Management $335 Billion
  • Highest Policyowner Retention Rate - 97% year over year with 5.1+ Million Clients
  • Industry Leader in Total Dividend Payout - $8.2 Billion
  • Fortune 500 Rank #111

We are highly selective in our interviewing process and only seeking out candidates who are looking to pursue a long term full-time career with us after completing our development program. This is someone who is eager for the responsibility and ownership that is required of someone who wants to be an entrepreneur. This person wants to be paid upon their performance because they know they are a hard worker. The ideal candidate is someone who has a proven track record of success, has practiced discipline, and has had leadership opportunities in their previous experiences. Those who complete this program prior to a full-time career end up making up over 1 in 2 of our senior leadership (Managing Partners) & become the top income earners in the company.