Does CFA exam help to enter the investment bank?

The "Golden Three Silver Four" job-hunting season is very important for people in the workplace and freshmen who are considering continuing their postgraduate entrance examination or job hunting. However, whether studying or applying for a job is full of joys and sorrows. Some people are beaming, while others are sad.

Speaking of reasons, there are many ways to fail, but most of the reasons for success are due to planning, just like Miss Sanhe, who successfully joined the leading securities company in China after graduation.

Join leading domestic securities companies,

Success is only due to detailed planning.

Golden Three Silver Four is also the job-hunting season for fresh graduates, but unlike many peers, Mihe after 1995 got an internship opportunity in a leading domestic securities company, so in the eyes of many students, Mihe after 1995 is already a proper half-life winner.

When talking about internship in leading securities companies, Miho said that the most important thing is to plan ahead. This includes finding the target company you want to go to in advance, then collecting the recruitment information of the target company, then comparing your own situation, and finally paying attention to the company's bonus points in recruitment conditions, such as certified public accountants, CFA and other financial qualification certificates.

Because there are too many excellent interviewees, if you want to break the situation of "too many monks and too few porridge", you must make plans in advance and fight well before you can vote for the company.

Textual research on detailed plans,

Work-oriented goals are more clear.

As for the success of planning, Miho also shared her example about CFA. As one of the leading securities companies in China, it is estimated that the resumes of candidates can be filled with mailboxes every year. Therefore, in the selection of talents, the top companies that Mihe values have also increased many thresholds, such as the minimum undergraduate education of 21kloc-0/college graduation and excellent internship experience during school, and now the financial certificates such as CFA/CPA are added at the end of the recruitment conditions.

After reading this article, "CFA and CPA certificates are preferred", Mihe thinks this is definitely his own plus item, because the academic qualifications are not dominant, and the internship experience is not as good as those excellent Daniel. Therefore, if you want to overtake in corners, it is the key to get a certificate with high gold content.

After deciding to study this book, Mihe weighed it and chose CFA, which is known as the first financial certificate. Because it is a financial major, it may be easier to prepare for the exam. In addition, from a professional point of view, CFA will also provide more complete knowledge about finance.

When determining the career goal and then deducing textual research from the works, Miho said that the goal of textual research becomes clearer with the purpose of the works. Because the enterprise has demand, it shows that this certificate is very important. After there is no worry about whether it is worth taking the exam, the next biggest task is how to take the exam.

Moreover, textual research is different from other things, which requires a lot of time and energy. Without a firm goal, it is easy to give up halfway.

Arrange your time reasonably and have less entertainment and leisure.

After CFA certificate is established as one of the job hunting plans, how to get the certificate becomes the key, which is also inseparable from the detailed plan.

Miho said that a detailed plan was made in the early stage of preparing for the exam, because the exam was decided in June 5438+February, so the planned time span reached five months. According to the ten subjects of CFA, Miss Mi also planned every subject on the same day, because for preparing for the exam, the earlier you review, the more time you have, and emergencies should be taken into account during this period.

Preparing for the exam every day is definitely more painful than chasing dramas, shopping and traveling. What impressed Mihe most was that the students made an appointment to visit Cangshan Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan for two weeks, which has always been Mihe's wish, not to mention Mihe's favorite rice noodle in Yunnan.

But two weeks is too long. It seems that Meher, who heard the textbook shouting "Don't go", can only choose to give up playing. During that time, she watched CFA-1 pictures and texts in the library alone, listened to CFA online classes in the dormitory, did exercises in the corner of the study room and recited words in front of the foreign language building.

Although there are some regrets, when I decided to prepare for the exam, I already thought that all entertainment and leisure should be sidelined, so almost all weekends and holidays were handed over to CFA courses, such as ethics and professional ethics, quantitative and analytical methods, economics, equity investment and so on.

Overall time planning

Regarding the preparation time of CFA, Miho said that the first level (the first contact was more detailed) took half a year, and the second level took two months.

So Teacher Gao Dun invited Mi He to talk about time planning (I won't go into details here, because everyone's foundation is different, and my personal planning is different, so I will talk about methodology).

Before CFA prepares for the exam, the most important thing is to have a perfect grasp of its overall preparation time and progress, so as to arrange its preparation order at a fixed time, and then adjust the preparation method in time through a period of time to ensure that all its review tasks are completed within the plan.

Miho believes that students who take CFA exams should have a comprehensive time plan. Set a big goal first, such as reading all the notes before x months. Then break down the goals of each month, which time period to read which notes and which time period to brush the questions.

In short, it is the so-called management by objectives. Determine an overall goal first, then break it down into phased tasks, one by one, and finally complete your overall goal.

I think, as long as your overall planning is reasonable and your review is in place, it is not a big problem to get good grades in the end.

You who work hard for your dreams,

It must shine!

In fact, many candidates find CFA most frustrating, not how difficult its knowledge is, but the test of candidates' mentality.

Many people will feel scared when they see dense English and thick review books after preparing for CFA, that is, the so-called pre-war morale will be weak. It is understood that most people's fears come from their weak English foundation.

But Gao Dun thinks it is also a good opportunity to learn English. You can look at it this way. If you are interested in financial analysis in the future and want to do this job well, you should not only learn to analyze the domestic market, but also always pay attention to foreign trends.

For example, I often browse foreign language websites and foreign language research reports (this is also part of my current work). Your study experience will be of great help to your future work.

In addition, at the beginning of revision, many people will find it difficult to understand English content and need to learn from dictionaries. But slowly, many words appear in front of your eyes over and over again, you will remember them, and then you will feel that the review is getting smoother and smoother.

By the way, let me tell you a secret: Do you know why CFA is so popular in universities?

In addition to its perfect knowledge system, in fact, a large proportion is because the English of students who have passed CFA is not too bad! ! This is an important competitiveness, with a good financial foundation and excellent English. It is simply the most ideal candidate!

Therefore, you actually gain a lot by taking CFA. Financial knowledge, English and certificates will be of great help to your work.

In addition, after finishing the English big boss, the rest, as long as everyone has a planned review, will basically not have any big problems.

To sum up, I hope that the experience of preparing for the exam shared by Gao Dun Jun today can help everyone!

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