Business Planning

Salomon Smith Barney is actively recruiting mature trainees. Scottie King, the firm's director of resource development, says that the average SSB rookie is now 36 years old as opposed to the average age of 26 a decade ago. "In each training class, one-third of the new hires are over 40, some are over 50," she says, from her New York office. "At a recent training session, we had someone 62."Is the

byRuth Halcomb