Full-time opportunities

With a wealth of opportunities available – from investment banking to information technology – our early career opportunities are for graduating students and recent graduates ready to accelerate their careers. These full-time roles provide exceptional candidates with exposure to core business units across the firm. They also offer robust training and development benefits, networking and access to leaders both within your department and firmwide.

Career Catalyst Experience

If you are a recent graduate starting a full-time position with Raymond James, you will join a cohort of fellow new associates in our Career Catalyst experience. Whether your role is in finance, risk, marketing or operations, this opportunity will ensure that you are set up for success and rapid development.

Benefits include:

• Common start date with fellow cohort members
• Robust two-week onboarding
• Regular development, career exploration and skill-building opportunities
• Quarterly speaker series with executives and rising firm leaders
• Coordinated community volunteering events
• Onboarding buddy and mentoring opportunities
• Networking opportunities with associates and leaders across the firm

IT ADP

The Information Technology Accelerated Development Program (IT ADP) at Raymond James puts you at the intersection of finance and technology. You’ll develop relationships with key leaders, help deliver leading-edge technological solutions and play an essential role in innovative projects at a firm where much of the technology – from conception to rollout – is built in-house.

Professional development: Gain a better understanding of the skills you possess, further advance your technical skills, learn to navigate a professional environment through connections with program alumni, one-on-one manager coaching, support from your team and exposure to leadership.

Networking: Build a network with your program cohort and leverage the expertise of professionals across the technology organization as you explore opportunities.

Extracurricular activities: Volunteer for community service days, get to know Tampa Bay through program-sponsored events and attend self-directed activities with your program cohort.

Investment Banking

Raymond James, a premier middle market investment banking firm, offers an exceptional program to help expand your knowledge and skills. We provide bright, early career talent with unmatched opportunities to make an impact as integral members of our deal teams.

With Raymond James, you will gain extensive M&A, equity, debt and restructuring experience while traveling and working directly alongside our senior bankers and the executives of our client companies and firms. You’ll be challenged to generate creative, original ideas with and learn from our more than 360 experienced bankers and analysts. Our investment banking analysts develop analytical, teamwork and problem-solving skills that benefit them throughout their careers.

After completing the analyst program, many of our analysts are promoted within the firm while others go on to successful careers in private equity, the corporate world – often with one of our clients – or to attend top-tier graduate schools. At Raymond James, you’ll find that we’ve created an invaluable and unrivaled experience for motivated investment banking analysts.

The pathway to growth and success starts here.

Equity Research

Our award-winning Equity Research team offers outstanding opportunities for highly motivated graduates to develop professionally. Equity Research associates are given heightened levels of responsibility and visibility very early in their careers. As a research associate, you will value stocks using various methodologies, conduct primary industry research using the supply-chain approach, and develop investment theses on stocks by piecing together multiple data points. Our ultimate goal is to train you to become an industry expert, thereby making you interchangeable with your analyst on multiple levels.

The Raymond James Equity Research department is a cornerstone of the firm. Comprising approximately 60 fundamental equity analysts covering more than 1,200 companies, we are a top provider of equity research both in North America and globally in terms of companies covered, and in providing insightful, timely and comprehensive information. Our analysts provide stock investment ideas through ratings and recommended lists, and also provide insights on public policy and institutional equity strategy. Our "go deep" approach focuses on select industries and results in coverage of large-, medium- and small-cap companies across those industries.