Fidelity to Job Seekers: We’re Open for Business and Hiring

By AIT News Desk On Apr 13, 2020

Fidelity Investments Continues to Grow its Business by Accelerating Thousands of Hires for Continued Support of Customers

Fidelity Investments, a private company and one of the industry’s most diversified financial services firms, announced plans to accelerate the hiring of approximately 2,000 people – beyond the thousands of roles it hires for each year – to further strengthen its ability to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. These new roles, the vast majority of which are financial consultants, licensed representatives and customer service representatives, will be added across Fidelity’s U.S. locations.

“We want to assure people considering a new job that Fidelity continues to actively recruit and hire for several critical roles and is accelerating hiring in key customer-facing areas. And, new hires will experience a safe and enhanced onboarding process.”

The hiring is part of Fidelity’s commitment to be there for clients during this challenging period and beyond with financial expertise, planning insights and proactive support. “We have seen unprecedented engagement from our individual clients as well as 401(k), 403(b), defined benefit and stock plan participants, all of whom are turning to Fidelity to help them navigate this challenging environment. In addition, Fidelity, with its strong brand and differentiated client value, has seen significant business growth from investors opening new accounts,” said Kathy Murphy, president of Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments. “To ensure we continue to provide this strong support to clients, we are stepping up and hiring advisors and other financial professionals to continue helping them navigate their financial lives.”

Fidelity, a 2020 Glassdoor Best Place to Work, is offering expedited hiring, onboarding and training processes, as well as substantial work-from-home arrangements to ensure the safety of associates. In addition, Fidelity recently rolled out enhanced support and benefits focused on time, flexibility and new care services for associates, including time needed to manage unexpected home-life events and COVID-19 screening and testing services for associates and their families.

“Times are uncertain, but job seekers can be certain that they can build a dynamic career with Fidelity,” said Bill Ackerman, head of Human Resources, Fidelity Investments. “We want to assure people considering a new job that Fidelity continues to actively recruit and hire for several critical roles and is accelerating hiring in key customer-facing areas. And, new hires will experience a safe and enhanced onboarding process.”

Fidelity Investments’ financial strength comes from its unmatched scale and combination of market-leading businesses that serve different markets with different solutions – asset management, brokerage, and administrative solutions serving personal, workplace, intermediary, and institutional markets.