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Personal Financial Advisors
Helps people plan for goals like college, a home and retirement.
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Financial advisors meet with clients, learn their goals, and recommend plans for saving, investing, insurance and retirement. Many work for firms; some build their own practice.
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The guide checks the courses against your plan, with things to try each year. Free account needed.
High school courses that build toward it
- Personal Finance · Career and Technical
Builds economics and accounting, which this job uses.
- Pre-Algebra · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Government and Economics · Social Studies
Builds economics and accounting, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Personal Financial Advisors on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.