Your problem is not your progress in the CFA or your lack of experience…It’s that you live in CANADA!!! You will float around like an atom…bouncing from crappy retail to maybe a data collection job all at lowly wage and watch the few that make it enjoy themselves at Bymark… If you can, goto the States or Europe or…Asia! Canada has the most CFA’s per capita, the population is fairly highly educated for the amount of good jobs available.
BTW- as others have noted, unless your employer is paying for them, skip these courses (do the CSC though). I did the CPH, CSC, DFC, OLC, TAC, PFP, WMT (for the FMA designation) awhile back when I lived in Canada (in NY now) and when I worked in retail for Financial Planning / Brokering (ugghhh); I don’t even put these on the resume, nor would I place the acronym of the CSI designations beside my name. Maybe one day you could shoot for the FCSI… … … If you want to (or are forced to) work in retail, do the CFP.
FrankArabia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > to the guy who did the CSC in 2 days, i challenge > that you didn’t. post your pedigree and i will > fill it with holes. really? i’m not the guy who posted that i did the csc in two days but i did pass the second csc exam w/o any studying… i also only spent maybe 3 hours scanning the material for the first exam before passing that as well. stop attempting to scare CFA candidates with these non-exams. the csc is the easiest test i’ve ever written in my life, but thats because i have a BBA and had passed two levels of the CFA at that point. the guy that passed LI with all 70+ should be fine in passing the CSC with a blindfold…
Keys Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Your problem is not your progress in the CFA or > your lack of experience…It’s that you live in > CANADA!!! > > You will float around like an atom…bouncing from > crappy retail to maybe a data collection job all > at lowly wage and watch the few that make it enjoy > themselves at Bymark… > > If you can, goto the States or Europe or…Asia! > Canada has the most CFA’s per capita, the > population is fairly highly educated for the > amount of good jobs available. I thought New york is very competitive. If you can find something decent there, you can find something decent anywhere.
^ Very competitive it is! But there is just substantially more business here.