Transition from rotational credit risk to ER?

Title. I’ve been offered a management development program at midsize bank. I would love to do ER as my end all goal but have lower GPA and Non target and a buddy said credit risk would be a good starting place. Is that true? Is a management development program going to hurt me long term?

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Credit risk is not a good starting place to get into ER. It just isn’t. For every credit risk person, there’s another ER person the same age with a CFA and any other credentials you can get. And it’s not like ER is a booming part of finance as it’s not really a revenue-generating area of a bank. 

If you want to get into ER, start in ER. That being said, credit risk is better than nothing and it’s not impossible to transfer to ER later, just unlikely. 

 

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