Putting a 6 month full time 'finance' job on CV as experience?

Hi all

I graduated with a non-finance social science masters degree. My first job was at Bloomberg working on the help desk. Ie. I am the person replying to you when you pushed the 'F1 Help' button. I did not like the nature of the job and have quit since.

Coming from a non finance background, the basic financial traning bloomberg gave me was top notch.

I am debating as to whether I should put that 6 month experience down on my CV
to show that I have had some experience in finance (so that I can leverage into FO markets jobs) or Or would it make me look bad?

Thanks!

 

You went to LSE? Why aren't you working at The Goldman Sachs?

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

Leave it on, especially if the FO internship came after the BO role. Shows you have what it takes to "transition" to the FO.

My name is Nicky, but you can call me Dre.
 

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