Blake Illg
Financial Advisor
Edward Jones
Biography
Job Description: Help families by providing holistic wealth planning, effectively and efficiently growing their wealth by focusing on investments, tax strategies, and passing money to their heirs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Investment consulting
- Tax strategy
- Wealth planning
- Estate planning
- Big purchase planning
Frequently Used Skills:
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Data analysis
- Emotional intelligence
How did the Enterprise Leadership major contribute to your career?
"Enterprise Leadership is a major influence to my career. It taught me core entrepreneurship skills that I use everyday. The foundational aspects of my career are all taught in Enterprise Leadership. This is a career that you need multiple different skills of business and all were covered."
What advice would you give to a student interested in pursuing a job or career field like yours?
"Shadow real advisors. Get to know different firms as a lot act in a different manner/have different focuses. You need to be in it for the people side of things just as much as the finance side."
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