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Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.
Job Overview:
The Advisor Licensing Program provides aspiring Financial Advisors the foundational skills necessary for a successful career in wealth management including; client relationship management, comprehensive financial planning, investment solutions, product implementation, financial markets and consultative selling. The 6 month program provides a comprehensive training on LPL’s systems and procedures, tutoring and support to obtain necessary FINRA licenses (7&66), and coaching from our leadership team.
After completing licensure and necessary milestones throughout the program, program participants will graduate with an opportunity to support our growing book of clients as an Associate Financial Advisor. The Advisor of the Wealth Advisors Group is a group of corporate employee advisors who provide investment solutions to mass affluent investors virtually and over the phone. The advisor will examine clients immediate and long term investment needs, help design solutions that best meet their individual financial goals and help grow our book.
Responsibilities:
- Licensure Testing: Training Advisors will be responsible for passing their SIE, series 7, and series 66 within the first 120 days of employment.
- Training: Training Representatives will be immersed in a hands on and comprehensive training which includes investment solutions and products, comprehensive financial planning concepts, systems and operational functions, client service, and consultative sales skills. Training Representatives will be responsible for achieving milestones and learning comprehension goals to graduate.
- Customer Service: Advisors are responsible for all functions of client relationship maintained including providing an exceptional service via incoming service calls, directing client transactions, preparing necessary client reports and forms, responding to client emails and proactive client outreach.
- Book Maintenance: Representatives will work together to ensure our book is operationally maintained, compliant, and delivering on our client experience commitments through proactive check ins and outreach.
- Financial Planning: Advisors should have a detailed understanding of all aspects of the financial planning process. Advisors should be effective at collecting and analyzing client data, developing and implementing appropriate solutions, as well as reviewing and maintaining those solutions on an ongoing basis. Advisors will need to knowledgably speak to core concepts such as education, tax, estate, insurance and investment allocation on a daily basis.
- Investment Solutions: Clients on our book possess a very wide range of different investment accounts and strategies. Advisors have the freedom to utilize investment vehicles that are most suitable for clients. Advisors should have a detailed understanding of all account types, investment products, and investment markets in order to field questions from our diverse client base.
- Consultative Sales: Advisors will be responsible for meeting goals in asset investment, wallet share consolidation, and relationship deepening metrics. Advisors will need to be well versed in the consultative sales process in order to demonstrate the value of LPL as well as position financial plans and investment solutions that are appropriate for the client.
- Business Partnership: Facilitate communication and coordination between departments to ensure smooth client experience and integration. Proactively engage in interdepartmental collaboration to enhance processes and integrate new partnerships and practices to enhance what our team can deliver for clients.
- Risk Mitigation: Remain in good standing with various compliance requirements. Assess and mitigate risk through regular book and client analysis. Prevent fraud through security checks and client conversations.
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement. We want focused and driven individuals who can pass FINRA licensing’s tests and internalize our training program.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Preferences:
- SIE is preferred or strongly encouraged to have completed before start date
- High integrity, detail oriented and ability to evaluate and mitigate risk
- Must have excellent communication skills, an avid listener, and strong business writing skills
- Passion for financial services and client service
- Organized with their time, and able to pass multiple FINRA licensing examinations
- Telephone service/client relationship management skills
- Prior financial tele-sales, trading or call center service experience
- Previous experience as financial advisor or delivering advice and guidance to retail clients
- Basic understanding of financial planning concepts, investment markets, and account types
- Entrepreneurial mind set, self-starter and quickly adapt to a fast paced environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and web based applications
- Ability to assist customers in call center environment while accessing data via multiple PC lookup applications. Must have excellent PC and data input skills
Pay Range:
$22.28-$37.14/hour
Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
Where Ambition Meets Innovation
Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.
Job Overview:
The Advisor Licensing Program provides aspiring Financial Advisors the foundational skills necessary for a successful career in wealth management including; client relationship management, comprehensive financial planning, investment solutions, product implementation, financial markets and consultative selling. The 6 month program provides a comprehensive training on LPL’s systems and procedures, tutoring and support to obtain necessary FINRA licenses (7&66), and coaching from our leadership team.
After completing licensure and necessary milestones throughout the program, program participants will graduate with an opportunity to support our growing book of clients as an Associate Financial Advisor. The Advisor of the Wealth Advisors Group is a group of corporate employee advisors who provide investment solutions to mass affluent investors virtually and over the phone. The advisor will examine clients immediate and long term investment needs, help design solutions that best meet their individual financial goals and help grow our book.
Responsibilities:
- Licensure Testing: Training Advisors will be responsible for passing their SIE, series 7, and series 66 within the first 120 days of employment.
- Training: Training Representatives will be immersed in a hands on and comprehensive training which includes investment solutions and products, comprehensive financial planning concepts, systems and operational functions, client service, and consultative sales skills. Training Representatives will be responsible for achieving milestones and learning comprehension goals to graduate.
- Customer Service: Advisors are responsible for all functions of client relationship maintained including providing an exceptional service via incoming service calls, directing client transactions, preparing necessary client reports and forms, responding to client emails and proactive client outreach.
- Book Maintenance: Representatives will work together to ensure our book is operationally maintained, compliant, and delivering on our client experience commitments through proactive check ins and outreach.
- Financial Planning: Advisors should have a detailed understanding of all aspects of the financial planning process. Advisors should be effective at collecting and analyzing client data, developing and implementing appropriate solutions, as well as reviewing and maintaining those solutions on an ongoing basis. Advisors will need to knowledgably speak to core concepts such as education, tax, estate, insurance and investment allocation on a daily basis.
- Investment Solutions: Clients on our book possess a very wide range of different investment accounts and strategies. Advisors have the freedom to utilize investment vehicles that are most suitable for clients. Advisors should have a detailed understanding of all account types, investment products, and investment markets in order to field questions from our diverse client base.
- Consultative Sales: Advisors will be responsible for meeting goals in asset investment, wallet share consolidation, and relationship deepening metrics. Advisors will need to be well versed in the consultative sales process in order to demonstrate the value of LPL as well as position financial plans and investment solutions that are appropriate for the client.
- Business Partnership: Facilitate communication and coordination between departments to ensure smooth client experience and integration. Proactively engage in interdepartmental collaboration to enhance processes and integrate new partnerships and practices to enhance what our team can deliver for clients.
- Risk Mitigation: Remain in good standing with various compliance requirements. Assess and mitigate risk through regular book and client analysis. Prevent fraud through security checks and client conversations.
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement. We want focused and driven individuals who can pass FINRA licensing’s tests and internalize our training program.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Preferences:
- SIE is preferred or strongly encouraged to have completed before start date
- High integrity, detail oriented and ability to evaluate and mitigate risk
- Must have excellent communication skills, an avid listener, and strong business writing skills
- Passion for financial services and client service
- Organized with their time, and able to pass multiple FINRA licensing examinations
- Telephone service/client relationship management skills
- Prior financial tele-sales, trading or call center service experience
- Previous experience as financial advisor or delivering advice and guidance to retail clients
- Basic understanding of financial planning concepts, investment markets, and account types
- Entrepreneurial mind set, self-starter and quickly adapt to a fast paced environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and web based applications
- Ability to assist customers in call center environment while accessing data via multiple PC lookup applications. Must have excellent PC and data input skills
Pay Range:
$22.28-$37.14/hour
Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Licensing Specialist
Lead with your regulatory coursework
Licensing roles attract candidates with backgrounds in law, compliance, or public administration. Highlight relevant coursework, capstone projects, or internships that demonstrate you understand regulatory frameworks, not just that you have a degree in the field.
Clarify your OPT timeline upfront
Licensing teams often run long hiring cycles. Be transparent with recruiters early about your OPT start date and authorization window so they can align their process and flag whether H-1B visa sponsorship is realistic for the following year.
Target industries with high licensing volume
Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and telecommunications process the most licensing work. Companies in these sectors often have dedicated licensing teams with recurring headcount needs, making OPT sponsorship a more familiar and expected part of hiring.
Demonstrate attention to regulatory detail
Licensing errors can trigger fines or revocations. Tailor your resume to show you've managed compliance tasks accurately under deadlines, whether through academic projects, internships, or previous roles. Specific examples matter more than general claims.
Research the employer's existing sponsorship history
Employers who have previously sponsored H-1B or OPT workers in licensing roles are more likely to do so again. Check public OFLC disclosure data to confirm whether a company has a track record before investing heavily in their application process.
Prepare to explain OPT simply and confidently
Many hiring managers outside HR are unfamiliar with OPT. Practice a clear two-sentence explanation of your work authorization status so you can address it without hesitation when it comes up in screening calls or interviews.
Licensing Specialist OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Licensing Specialist roles qualify for OPT work authorization?
Most do. Licensing Specialist positions typically require a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as business, law, public administration, or a related discipline, which satisfies the specialty occupation standard that underpins OPT eligibility. Roles that only require a general degree without field specificity can occasionally present issues, so reviewing the job description carefully before applying is worthwhile.
What academic backgrounds are most relevant for OPT students applying to Licensing Specialist jobs?
Degrees in business administration, regulatory affairs, public policy, paralegal studies, health administration, or finance align most directly with Licensing Specialist responsibilities. Your degree field should connect logically to the licensing domain the employer operates in, whether that's healthcare, financial services, or telecommunications. STEM OPT extension eligibility is uncommon for this role unless the position is heavily data or systems focused.
Are Licensing Specialist positions eligible for the STEM OPT 24-month extension?
Rarely. Most Licensing Specialist roles fall under business or legal fields rather than STEM-designated programs. If your degree is in a STEM field and the role involves substantial quantitative or technical work, such as data analytics or software licensing systems, you may have a case, but it requires your degree to appear on the official DHS STEM designated degree list and your employer to meet E-Verify requirements.
How do I find Licensing Specialist jobs where employers are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is the best starting point. It surfaces licensing and compliance roles from employers who have a demonstrated history of sponsoring international candidates, saving you time filtering out positions where OPT authorization would be an immediate barrier. Focusing your search on larger companies in regulated industries also increases the likelihood that HR teams are already familiar with OPT paperwork and timelines.
What happens to my OPT status if my Licensing Specialist job is terminated before my authorization period ends?
You enter a 60-day grace period during which you can search for new employment, change your visa status, or prepare to depart the U.S. You cannot work during this window. If you secure a new Licensing Specialist role within the 60 days, you can resume employment under the same OPT authorization, provided your EAD is still valid and the new role qualifies under your degree field.