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Northwestern Mutual Seeks to Add 6 Financial Professionals in Durham/Chapel Hill

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To meet the growing demand for financial guidance, Northwestern Mutual today announced that it is seeking to add 6 full-time financial representatives and 10 interns in the company's Durham/Chapel Hill Office.

"An opportunity in the financial services industry can be rewarding both professionally and personally. Now is an opportune time as the demand for professionals to help people meet their long-term financial goals is growing." said Jimbo Huckabee, Managing Director of Northwestern Mutual's Durham/Chapel Hill office.

Northwestern Mutual's 2014 Planning and Progress Study shows that two-thirds of Americans don't have a long-term financial plan in place and 7 out of 10 don't have a financial advisor.

Who are the right candidates?

Huckabee said finding success in the financial services industry has less to do with direct experience as it does with what drives and individual. Successful financial representatives possess two distinct qualities - a high achievement motivation and high service motivation.

Candidates well-suited to the career are:

• Millennials looking for an opportunity to forge their own path at their own speed, while making a positive impact on others. Millennials are the nation's economic future, and Northwestern Mutual has made some significant and ongoing commitment to provide mentoring, guidance and support to this financially precocious generation. Nearly one-third of Northwestern Mutual's financial representatives are Millennials.

• Military veterans seeking an opportunity that allows them to transfer their leadership skills, discipline and strong desire to help others after their military service has ended. Northwestern Mutual provides veterans with the opportunity to lead a practice and fill an important role - helping people and their families achieve financial security. They also have the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, while continuing to serve and help others.

• Career changers who believe they have reached the ceiling in their current occupation and are looking for a new and different opportunity to grow professionally and personally. Northwestern Mutual expects that 75% of newly recruited financial representatives will be professionals seeking a career change.

• College students looking for internships that provide opportunities to learn from the best financial professionals in the business and a path that can lead to a full-time opportunity upon college graduation. Northwestern Mutual's internship program ranked #1 for students seeking to be part of the financial services industry, and the company that works closely with college campuses near its more than 350 offices across the country.

Each Northwestern Mutual financial representative immediately receives training, mentoring and joint work programs for hands-on experience. Financial representatives also have access to ongoing education resources on the latest industry information and advanced professional designations.

Northwestern Mutual interns enter into an environment that builds self-confidence, improves human relation skills, increases motivation to learn and applies their classroom studies in the real world. Interns get the opportunity to network and build relationships and ultimately reap the same rewards as a full-time financial advisor - all coinciding with classroom work.

For more information

Interested applicants can visit: http://chapelhill.nm.com or Ashley Irvin at ashlely.irvin@nm.com or 919-401-0348

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