abbreviating your masters? MSF? MS? MS-Fin? either, especially, business, finance, people

kmf229

For those of you with a masters in finance - how do you abbreviate it for business cards, etc ? They all seem to be either unrecognizable or too long. I've seen some people just leave it off, especially if they have a CFA, but i don't really get why you wouldn't want to advertise your masters.

chunty

Don't put it behind your name! Period!

Zestt

It seems pretentious to put every title you ever received. Just watch who's toes you're stepping on. I think it tells a lot about someone if they're putting that stuff. Where does it stop? Name, Undergraduate University, GPA, Years as a human, LOOK AT ME!!!

bbtomato

Ceredwyn Wrote:
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> I already work in AM, has nothing to do with
> resumes...this is for business cards, email
> signatures, etc.
>
> Whole reason behind considering it is that a lot
> of the MBAs I know put it after their name and it
> always seemed kinda crap that people with an MS
> skipped it. By the standard of "you put CFA cause
> it's relevant," you would list an MS before you
> listed an MBA. I don't necessarily disagree with
> the standard of "put CFA and nothing else" or "if
> you have a PHD you're gonna put it down, so just
> shut up and put it down" but it irks me to skip
> the MS when I see MBA around all the time.
>
> I'm considering removing it and putting just CFA
> once I'm elligible.


You're an idiot.

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cv4cfa

Face + palm.

AnalystAlan

I already work in AM, has nothing to do with resumes...this is for business cards, email signatures, etc.

Whole reason behind considering it is that a lot of the MBAs I know put it after their name and it always seemed kinda crap that people with an MS skipped it. By the standard of "you put CFA cause it's relevant," you would list an MS before you listed an MBA. I don't necessarily disagree with the standard of "put CFA and nothing else" or "if you have a PHD you're gonna put it down, so just shut up and put it down" but it irks me to skip the MS when I see MBA around all the time.

I'm considering removing it and putting just CFA once I'm elligible.

cfa10yrplan

The answer is, it depends:

If you are looking to work in finance academia, you should put your degrees behind your name i.e., MST, MSF, MSA, MBA, MA, etc.

If you are looking to work in private sector finance, you should only put professional designations behind your name, CPA, CFA, CFP, etc...

I don't work in government; so I can't make suggestions regarding how public sector (CBO, SEC, etc) culture is regarding this kind of thing.

Therefore, what area of finance are you working or looking to work in?

morebeans

oh jeez, don't ever put a master's behind your name, not even top MBA grads put MBA behind their name.

I wouldn't even glance down past your name on a resume if I saw that.

willsucceed

equity_analyst Wrote:
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> No wonder people looking to get into finance can't
> find jobs.


+1000000000000000000000000000000000

zephyranalyst

You should only have CFA or Ph.D on your card. CFA because it is a designation relevant to your industry.

In this case CFA > MBA.