CFA®协会要求的"相关工作经验"包括了在投资决策过程的一般领域，如财务分析、投资管理、证券投资分析等类型的工作经历。广义上讲，只要是为投资决策过程提供所需的信息或资料的职务都可以包含在内，如从事经济形势、公司业绩资料的收集、评估和分析的工作，或者直接或间接指导类似活动的职务以及从事金融投资教育的经历都被认可。

其实，只需要你现在的雇主对你说提交的工作经验签字认可并推荐您加入CFA协会，再加上一个CFA资格持有人推荐就可以了加入CFA协会并获取CFA头衔，工作经验可以在考前、考中和考后都可以累计。

以下是CFA协会指定的工作经验要求，主要是利用经济的，统计的，财务的信息进行投资决策分析，注重的工作的实质而不仅仅是职务，工作经验可以在考前、考中、考后累计，只要您最后的雇主可以为您提供工作证明是相关工作经验即可，以下是CFA协会网站上对于工作经验的详细要求：
Work Experience Guidelines
FOR THOSE CANDIDATES WHO WERE REGISTERED BEFORE THE 2005 EXAMINATION YEAR AND WHO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THE PROGRAM BY 2007, THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS AND WORK EXPERIENCE GUIDELINES APPLY.

Work Experience Guidelines For Eventual Award of the CFA? Charter

Three years of acceptable professional work experience are required before the CFA? charter can be awarded. This experience may be accrued while the candidate is in the CFA? Program, after the candidate has passed all three levels of examinations, or from previous positions.

Acceptable work experience includes activities that consist to a significant extent of collecting, evaluating, or applying financial, economic, or statistical data (as appropriate) as part of the investment decision-making process; or supervising, directly or indirectly, persons who practice such activities; or the teaching of such activities. The investment decision-making process is the professional practice of financial analysis, investment management, securities analysis, or other similar activities.

CFA? CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO SPEND AT LEAST 40 PERCENT OF THEIR TIME IN THESE ACTIVITIES TO ACCRUE THE REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE. Summer, part-time, and internship positions do not qualify. The following job titles are provided as a guide only. Job titles alone cannot convey the true nature of the underlying job duties. Therefore, to assess professional work experience, evaluate the nature of your job activity, as described previously, rather than merely the job title.

Accountant
Actuary
Auditor
Bank Examiner
Bank Lending (corporate)
Business Appraiser
Client Services Manager
Compliance Examiner
Consultant on Investment Manager Selection/Investment Policy
Corporate Chief Financial Officer
Corporate Controller (not finance/not investment)
Derivatives Analyst
Director of Finance
Director of Mutual Funds
Economist (involved in investment decision-making process)
Financial Journalist (Editor/Reporter/Publisher)
Financial Planner
Internal Corporate Planning Analyst
Internal Management of Investment Firm
Investment Banking/Corporate Finance Consultant
Investment Sales (consultative)
Investment Strategy Formulation
Investor Relations
Management Consultant (excluding personnel)
Marketer (of investment management services, funds, securities, etc.)
Mutual Fund Sales/Trainer
Options/Futures/Commodities Analyst
Portfolio Administrator
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Performance Evaluator
Portfolio Strategist
Product/Software Developer (of investment-related products/services)
Professor/Instructor (investment, finance, and economics, or non-financial business administration)
Quantitative Investment Analyst
Real Estate Investment Manager
Risk Analyst (securities related)
Securities and Investment Analyst
Securities Regulation
Securities Trader
Securities Underwriter
Stockbroker/Registered Representative
Valuator of Closely Held Business
Valuator of Mergers/Acquisitions
Venture Capital Investment (not securities)


FOR THOSE WHO ARE REGISTERING FOR THE 2005 PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST TIME AND FOR ALL CANDIDATES WHO REMAIN IN THE PROGRAM AFTER 2007, THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS AND WORK EXPERIENCE GUIDELINES APPLY.

Work Experience Guidelines For Eventual Award of the CFA? Charter

Four years of acceptable professional work experience are required before the CFA? charter can be awarded. This experience may be accrued while the candidate is in the CFA? Program, after the candidate has passed all three levels of examinations, or from previous positions. Acceptable Professional Work Experience as it relates to applicants seeking to become Charterholder Members, or Regular Members, includes activities that consist to a majority extent of:

(i) evaluating or applying financial, economic and/or statistical data as part of the investment decision-making process involving securities or similar investments, which includes, but is not limited to, publicly traded and privately placed stocks, bonds and mortgages and their derivatives; commodity-based derivatives and mutual funds; and other investment assets, such as real estate and commodities, if these other investment assets are held as part of a diversified, securities-oriented investment portfolio; or

(ii) supervising, directly or indirectly, persons who practice such activities; or

(iii) teaching such activities.

CFA? CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO SPEND 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THEIR TIME IN THESE ACTIVITIES TO ACCRUE THE REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE. Summer, part-time, and internship positions do not qualify. The following job titles are provided as a guide only. Job titles alone cannot convey the true nature of the underlying job duties. Therefore, to assess professional work experience, evaluate the nature of your job activity, as described previously, rather than merely the job title.

1. Client Service Representative or Relationship Manager
2. Compliance Analyst/Officer
3. Investment Consultant
4. Corporate Chief Financial Officer
5. Corporate Finance Analyst
6. Investment Banking Analyst
7. Derivatives Analyst
8. Economist
9. Institutional Sales Professional/Business Development
(Buy & Sell Side)
10. Investment Strategist
11. Portfolio Manager
12. Private Client Investment Advisor
13. Professor/Instructor
14. Quantitative Investment or Risk Analyst
15. Real Estate Investment Manager
16. Regulator/Supervisor of Investment Firm
17. Security/Investment Analyst
18. Securities Trader
19. Valuator of Closely Held Business
20. Venture Capital Analyst