CFA and Call Center

[freebts]

my first was a support role to a Merrill call center. basically doing back office... well, crap i guess. applied for a few jobs and landed a corp fin analyst position. didn't like accting, so i applied for other jobs. ended up landing a fixed income role. 2 yrs later i am on a mtge/FI risk management team developing valuation models and creating hedge positions for our IO book. It can be done my friend!

BTW, i had to MOVE TO a town with 50K pop. for my current job. boss and coworkers are basically all ivy league, which i promise you i am not. so i wouldn't say that it is definately possible to find good jobs in small towns. especially with a stat/econ degree - perfect for fixed income market.

i had to take the night off from studying to just read that one post. that was sick!

 

[Rudeboi]

freebts Wrote:
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> my first was a support role to a Merrill call
> center. basically doing back office... well, crap
> i guess. applied for a few jobs and landed a corp
> fin analyst position. didn't like accting, so i
> applied for other jobs. ended up landing a fixed
> income role. 2 yrs later i am on a mtge/FI risk
> management team developing valuation models and
> creating hedge positions for our IO book.
> It can be done my friend!
>
portmgmt Wrote:
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> I got the job opportunity by aggresivley appyling
> for positions and interviewing with all of my
> heart. I showed how much passion I have for the
> asset management industry. I have and had no
> contracts just lots of hard work.



thats good to know .... that gives me a little confidence that it may be hard but not impossible ....

 

[imp]

"so i guess i shd work on making contacts as opposed to applying for positions .."
-- No. I'm saying do both.

Good luck.