I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Investment Professionals (Brentwood, TN) in Feb 2014
Interview
Interviewed by Sales director who flew in over the day. The process was pretty smooth, nice guy, but not too over the top professional. Then I interviewed with a few more people and I was hired. I have been to other interviews as well with other wire house firms and they were crazy complicated, not hard just too complicated so this was a good fit for me.