Should I study for and take the SIE or Series 65 before internships?
Looking at a couple of internships with one of them being at Morgan Stanley; another at a local firm. Should I prep and take the Series 65 or SIE exam first? Also, I will begin preparation for the CFA once I am qualified to sit for the exam (1 and a half years time).
Edited (Resume): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gVcmLHKi3md3BA7c…
I'm bored, and may have had a couple of drinks, but kid, here's my honest opinion: FINRA exams are minimum competency exams and expensive. Take them when you need to, and save the cash. (any decent employer will pay for them, but prove yourself eager by passing them ASAP on the first try, or even between the offer and the start date if you can) You have already proved interest with the investment foundations certificate.
Here are my other observations, and I'm sorry for the tough love:
You list your zipcode. I couldn't care less if you live at 10 Wall St. and can walk to work, or live near 242nd and Wakefield in the Bronx. The city is fine, your connections aren't going to get you this internship if you haven't already gotten the interview with the MD.
Investment club? Is this GIPS compliant? this is SO easy to fudge that it is a joke. "Everybody's got a good backtest" applies X10 in investment club.
The Skills? Teamwork, memory and visualization? "I'm not an ass," "I remember shit," and IDK what. Computer skills are also a mess. You can't function without office today, Edgar is so much of a mess that companies like simfund make good money with easier ways to sort and parse it, and I have no clue what 'broker interfaces' mean beyond my fidelity account. SQL is valuable though, why is it buried at the end here?
Can you bulk out college? Are there significant classes you excelled that could be attractive like Econometrics?
You're graduating college. Employers want to know you as a person as much as a set of skills. The assumption is that college hires are 80% incompetent, and need to be trained. Also: Puppies. It is virtually impossible to complain about someone who helps with service puppies. Were I to interview you, every question on the investment club would be trying to rip it apart, but every service puppy question would be a softball. Remember, the guy that hires you has to work with you. Most people don't like working with salty cynics unless they quietly do it to make their boss look good.
Also, where do you want to go? This is a wide field. Rockstars in one industry would utterly fail in others.
Not sure exactly where I want to go in finance yet but I have narrowed it down to three areas at most. #1 portfolio management #2 equity research #3 wealth management. At first, I was enjoying myself in marketing but I soon found out that it's not for me.
Removing zip
My investment business does not qualify for GIPS (I did look into it probably in March of 18) because I do not have 5 years of experience.
I just assume that everyone is competent or with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office I don't bother putting it, but I guess I should put it instead of EDGAR. I've been using Word since I was five (seriously) I learned how to type before I could write my name.
Will move SQL so it's more visible.
I have no idea how to put passed all accounting and economics classes with 95%-105% without sounding snobish.
Thank you! I wish more people would rip through my stuff like this.
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