I was contacted by a recruiter from TX after a resume drop off A YEAR ago. We scheduled a time to have a further discussion on this job. Two days later, we had a 20 minutes informational phone interview. Basically, the recruiter walked me through the duties of this job as well as the starting salary which is $35000 flat + sponsorship for series 7 & 63. She said the second year usually will go up to around $38000. After that, she asked me a few questions regarding my resume. Because my position is to take inbound call and answer client's questions, so she was specially looking for my communication skills over the phone.

First a brief phone screening, and then I needed to schedule an in person interview. The phone screening was around 30 mins and the interview itself was about an hour.