02-22-2009, 11:00 AM
Dear amirr
Well neither I wanna influence your decisions nor stressing upon CFA, but I think your work experience in finance in industry and with Compensation and Benefit Funds is quite relevant for experience requirement of CFA. Please see details of experience requirement and discuss further with some CFA member/student. Just drop an email to CFAI or ask at analystforum website. Having treasury or banking experience is not necessary to get CFA charter.
As far as Canada is concerned, any educated person can have an office job initially, but in my view, it is more of a matter of one's luck rather than education. Uncountable immigrants with suitable qualifications and experience, land in blue collar jobs here. Some of fortunate one eventually get relevant jobs later. So to me it is all your luck. Efforts may or may not bring fruit.
Moreover, jobs in HR are more difficult to achieve, simply because locals would have much more edge over an immigrant due to personal traits like english as first language, turn out, knowing the system etc.
Accounting is zillion times better than HR, atleast one can start from lower level. CFA and finance is better than ACCA as in short-run it provides you same kind of jobs (though both are different fields), and in long-run, its earning potential is much more than accounting in Canada for an immigrant. These words are written in reference to Canada for an immigrant. It may be different in other parts of the world or for locally brought-up Canadians.
Again evaluate yourself. If you already very much in ACCA then go for it.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Well neither I wanna influence your decisions nor stressing upon CFA, but I think your work experience in finance in industry and with Compensation and Benefit Funds is quite relevant for experience requirement of CFA. Please see details of experience requirement and discuss further with some CFA member/student. Just drop an email to CFAI or ask at analystforum website. Having treasury or banking experience is not necessary to get CFA charter.
As far as Canada is concerned, any educated person can have an office job initially, but in my view, it is more of a matter of one's luck rather than education. Uncountable immigrants with suitable qualifications and experience, land in blue collar jobs here. Some of fortunate one eventually get relevant jobs later. So to me it is all your luck. Efforts may or may not bring fruit.
Moreover, jobs in HR are more difficult to achieve, simply because locals would have much more edge over an immigrant due to personal traits like english as first language, turn out, knowing the system etc.
Accounting is zillion times better than HR, atleast one can start from lower level. CFA and finance is better than ACCA as in short-run it provides you same kind of jobs (though both are different fields), and in long-run, its earning potential is much more than accounting in Canada for an immigrant. These words are written in reference to Canada for an immigrant. It may be different in other parts of the world or for locally brought-up Canadians.
Again evaluate yourself. If you already very much in ACCA then go for it.
Hope it helps.
Regards
