Hire purpose: Cooper Parry Wealth's Stephen Jones on recruitment

An occasional focus on employment practices in financial advice firms

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In one of its occasional focuses on employment and recruitment practices among financial adviser firms, Professional Adviser talks to Cooper Parry Wealth chief executive Stephen Jones (pictured, far left, with team).

How Does Cooper Parry Wealth Go About Recruiting Advisers? As we build a profile for ourselves, we're beginning to receive a few direct approaches. A few years back, it was tough to find good paraplanners but now we've created something people want to be a part of. We have real focus on bringing in younger people and operate both graduate and internship programmes. Ewan Rosie (pictured, top right-hand corner) is perhaps the best example of the graduate programme's success since it launched six years ago. Joining as a graduate, he has worked his way through the business and now, as a fu...

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