Registered Representative, Planning Partners Group

David Felling
Major(s): History
Current Job Title: Registered Representative
Organization: Planning Partners Group

Brief description of your job:
Financial planning, insurance and investments for individuals and businesses.

Other job titles since graduation:
Courier at FedEx while at law school.

How have you found out about these positions?
Networking

What skills from your degree are you using in your current work?
Synthesizing information from many different sources, written and verbal communication,

What advice do you have for current liberal arts students with your major?
Understand what it is that you intend to do with your degree before you graduate and develop a strategy to attain your objective.

How have you gained skills that you didn't get from your degree that are necessary for jobs or jobs you have previously held?
By seeking out those who are currently successful at what it is that I want to be doing. Then asking for their assistance, realizing that they know more than I do, and following their work habits and implementing what it was that they had done.