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A new youth television show will broadcast a video promoting mortgage broking as a career option.
FBAA chief executive Peter White told The Adviser that the association was finalising a promotional video that would be ready next month.
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The FBAA has already targeted high school and university students with a video that was published on the Student Edge website in mid-2014.
Mr White said the new video would be aimed at the same demographic, and would feature on Student Edge as well as television.
“Student Edge have got a TV pilot program that is about to launch. It’s initially in Western Australia, but if it gets traction it will then go national,” he said.
“It will be promoted in [a] key viewing time for kids. It’s all about promoting career opportunities.”
Mr White said the partnership with Student Edge had allowed the association to reach 600,000 young Australians.
“This is not an FBAA thing – this is an industry thing to get people talking,” he said.
“For the first time, these kids will be proactively marketed to think about becoming a finance broker in the future.”
Meanwhile, the FBAA has partnered with verification services provider CVCheck to make it easier and cheaper to obtain documentation such as credit checks, bankruptcy checks and police checks.
Mr White said that police checks could be obtained in as little as 24 hours through CVCheck.
"All forms are completed online, eliminating the need to visit police stations to pick up and hand in forms. This reduces time and cost of travel," he said.
Mr White also said that the FBAA would use CVCheck to vet brokers who want to join the association or renew their membership.
"I'm aware of claims of broking candidates forging police checks, so anything that prevents fraud is good for the industry," he said.
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