Occupation Atlasstock broker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8ec6b513-3d44-4e94-b187-d55734a587a4
stock broker
Stock brokers act on behalf of their individual or institutional clients in order to buy and sell stocks and other securities. They are in close contact with their clients and ensure that what they buy or sell through the stock exchange market is according to their clients' wishes. Stock brokers undertake analyst research to make recommendations to their clients and expand their client base through various methods.
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Job Zone
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- 4
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ECSEnterprising · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising6.08
- C Conventional5.27
- S Social3.07
- I Investigative2.53
- A Artistic1.29
- R Realistic1.26
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents (41-3031.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- actuarial science
- advise on financial matters
- analyse financial risk
- analyse market financial trends
- apply technical communication skills
- assess risks of clients' assets
- asset management
- economics
- financial markets
- financial products
- forecast economic trends
- handle financial transactions
- modern portfolio theory
- protect client interests
- review investment portfolios
- securities
- stock market
- trade securities
Optional (20)
- accounting
- banking activities
- build business relationships
- communicate with banking professionals
- communicate with customers
- create a financial report
- examine credit ratings
- financial jurisdiction
- fundamental analysis
- holding company activities
- maintain records of financial transactions
- manage financial risk
- obtain financial information
- operate financial instruments
- perform stock valuation
- provide financial product information
- provide support in financial calculation
- statistics
- tax legislation
- trace financial transactions
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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