mengxu

Wobble,

I don't think most ops positions would count, what type of position was this? Were there ties to any research or analysis in what your coworkers did? I'm going through the work experience stuff for LIII right now with mostly Ops experience and just hoping it will come out positive, but expecting it not to count. I beleive for it to count the experience needs to be your main focus in your job.

I know someone who had a research internship for a year that didn't count b/c they don't allow internships to count - even though he was doing the same work as the people on the payroll!

kingstongal

Hey Dapper,

A co-worker of mine just got the charter after about a year of back and forth. He ended up going back to CFAI like 6-7 times getting bits and pieces approved. I think he actually typed up a letter and sent it to CFAI via fedex to get his point across. He was purely ops (equity trading support I think) for a while and then at our place I think he was able to package his performance reporting duties into accepted work experience.

I think for those of you in the "I work in ops" situation, after passing L3 it may not be a terrible idea to sign up for and take the CIPM. I know the last thing anyone wants to do after L3 is comit to another 2 exams but if the designation is relevant to what you do in ops (GIPS, performance, measurement, analytics, reporting, etc.) it may help. I think I read that only a couple hundred sat for the second part of CIPM this year so you have to think CFAI is trying to raise the prestige of CIPM in the future. It might be your "backdoor" entry into the charter, who knows.

Otabek

Thanks Cat Fanciers', I appreciate the response.

Newhuman

Damn, goodluck Dapper...the fund accountant I was referring to go his charter like 10 years ago. And, my co worker has 8 years of experience from a trading configuration of Swaps point of view...so I'm sure it was the overall 8 years that allowed him to get the 4 required.

Sounds like I should start looking for a new gig before I even sit for L3...