It's no secret that financial planners are in short supply these days. 

With an aging advisor population — more than half are over 55 — and not a whole lot of newbies coming in to take up the slack, the area is ripe for growth. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has put its estimate of the potential for job growth within the field at 27 percent through 2022; that's considerably more than the 11 percent the BLS anticipates for job growth as a whole nationally. 

Some financial firms are rising to that challenge, as BenefitsPro reported earlier about TD Ameritrade. And now Northwestern Mutual has jumped on the bandwagon, announcing that it will recruit 2,000 full-time financial representatives and more than 3,000 college interns across the country. 

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