Colum

Putting college on your resume is different than putting down "CFA level 1 candidate"

Majoring in finance:
You have to get ACCEPTED into college/major
You're following a set track (You are also measured in increments of your course work with letter grades)
Higher % of graduating and getting your degree (b/c of second reason)
Greater investment($) means more incentive to succeed

and if you're putting it on your resume:
You probably applying to jobs and have already have relevant course work COMPLETED

CFA lvl 1 candidate:
Anybody can be a CFA level 1 canididate (4th year in college)
No set track( study on your own)
Listing on your resume is (potentially)detrimental b/c of no set track)
Putting it on your resume makes you liable to any interview questions regarding to the CFA, especially if you signed up for the Dec test and aren't familiar with the material

I understand where you are coming from skycfa. But when putting things on a resume, I feel you're suppose to list accomplishments of things done, or working to complete. Putting down the intent to take the CFA lvl 1 candidate is the same to me as putting down registered to take the GMAT.

I guess I'm just stubborn haha



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 02:35AM by alee247.