There are many services that the financial advisor may offer within his or her expertise and profile. They are not only advice private customers but often advice corporate.
The services may vary from investment planning, cash management, retirement planning, estate planning or insurance needs to education funding, written analysis and investment recommendations.

Therefore, the job interview for the financial advisor may cover many areas.
Note that this position sometimes called – financial advisor or investment advisor.  

This article covers financial advisor or investment advisor job interview questions and answers, the article provides – the frequently asked job interview questions as well as some tips on answering these questions.
You can also refer to financial analyst interview questions.

Sample Financial Advisors Job Interview Questions and Answers

The following questions are more of “tell us about yourself” questions for the financial advisor:
• What qualifications and licenses do you hold?
• How long do you work as a financial advisor and the firms you’ve worked for?
• Describe the services you’ve offered.
• How many clients you’ve served, their average portfolio and the size of assets you have managed.
• Do you take continuing education classes for financial advising?
• Tell about your past performance.
• Why did you choose this career? What does it mean to be a financial advisor?  
• What are the skills that allow you to be a successful advisor?
• Do you have references: Clients, co-workers and superiors?

Interview tips on answering the above questions:
Tell about your educational background and the courses you have taken to develop you professional expertise. You should also describe your client base and your past experience, expertise such as: financial planning, investment management, budgeting, Tax planning, wills, retirement planning and insurance needs. You may also refer to more details like – Large/Small Cap and International.
And of course, explain why you want to be in this financial field.
Incase you are new to this business, you can tell about the line of business prior to becoming a financial advisor, which is relevant/similar to this profession.

You may also refer to the article: tell me about yourself interview question and to the frequently asked interview questions category.

Behavioral Interview Questions For Financial Advisors

The following questions are meant to observer the methods you use to build a portfolio for a client insuring their investments are secure and they will not break their budget:
• Describe your management style/philosophy.
• How do you choose investments and how often you adjust portfolios?
• Do you prepare a written plan for your clients?
• Do you have a backup plan?
• How do you make your client feel that you are someone to trust with their money?
• Can you describe your ethical responsibility to a client regarding monetary risk?
• Can you offer your budgeting practices concerning a retirement forecast?
• How do you maintain your customer base?
• Can you build a customer base from scratch?

How to answer these questions:
Explain how you would prepare a financial plan for a client, steps like: collecting data, analyzing current status, setting goals and risk management, presetting alternatives, providing recommendations and the implantation.
You may also describe how you “sell yourself” to clients and how you enlarge the customer base?
You should also tell how you keep a close contact with clients, activities such as: providing reports frequently, sending written analysis and giving continues advice etc.
In summing up this issue, if you were successful in providing a client with financial stability and maintain a good working relationship, then tell about that by all means.

Technical skills/experience interview questions for a financial advisor

• Active and passive investing
• Stock versus bonds – variable percentages
• Options delta
• Hard assets
• Net present value
• Mutual funds
• Defining a favorite stock and an impassive or disliked stock
• Short-term investment tools, such as short-term bonds or certificates of deposit
• Valuing a customer in financial terms
• Historical accounting