FINRA Licenses
I am a college student, and I was thinking about becoming a "financial advisor" only to secureFINRAlicensing from a firm and then tell them it was not the right fit for me. Will thisaffect my FINRAstanding or licensing? I want to secure the licenses to apply for better positions. The financial advisor role is commission based and I genuinely don't want to sell these products to people. Should I even pursue this position to boost my resume with licenses and experience? I want to go theIB>PEroute. I am currently a sophomore and I am in the process of applying to transfer from a CC to a 4 year semi target, fingers crossed. My plan is to work in the financial services industry full time or part time during school so that I can load up on relevant experience besides the classic summer internships. If anyone has any advice, please share it! Thank you!
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You just said yourself you don't want to do anything with a Series 7 & 6x, so why are you asking us? You listed out what it is you think you want to do, so why not do some more reading up on the internship posts on theIBandPEforums or the Jobs forum?
一个lso, there's wayyyyyyyy more toPWMthan somesalesman advisory role. A lot of the "background" jobs inPWMpay extremely well and offer a ton of growth opportunities and exit opps to other fields (I'll spare my story since there's plenty of copies of it out there already). Get your mind out of the Northwestern Mutual gutter and think better of yourself.
While you're mulling all this over and you get hungry, eat Domino's.
First, you can take the SIE on your own without being employed but I do not think it will be big resume enhancer forPEorIB. You need a sponsor/employer to take the next examlike the series 7. Getting hired to take exams and then leaving will not have any impact on your FINRA standing but it might look a little weird when broker check shows that you were with this company for only like 2 months. Personally, I would not use a firm as way to get licensed, as it is kind of shady.
I already took the SIE and passed.
That is great! There are other exams you can take without a sponsor like the series 65 exam, which is for the advisory world.
ForIByou only need theSeries 79 and 63, which are 1. not what you would take for financial advisor roles and 2. beyond easy to take, you are given weeks of training and time to study during analyst training
This is not worth it - even if you got those licenses it wouldn't help your application at all. Get real internships and network.
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Learn moreI appreciate your advice though on it not being worth it. I will make better use of my time.
I had my Charter, and could have basically sat and passed theCFPany dayof the week when I sat for the 7 & 63. Studying and passing were a joke, less than two weeks to get both. They are not things worth going out of your way for. If you want to impress people show progress towards capstone designations, not minimum competency licencing exams.
This would be a waste, network and do well in school. Have some fun, no one comes in with licenses.
一个re there any entry level jobs where I can get relevant finance experience? A lot of these places won't hire a community college student.
Network. Get an internship. Don't put blinders on and think only anSAatBBmatters. You can lateral out of CC into a state school (target or not, doesn't matter) just like you can intern at a community or regional bank's lending group and use that to lateral over to at least a Tier 3 national bank. Meanwhile, keep applying to internship andSApositions at the banks you want to wind up at. Be willing to move. Hell, be preemptive and think about moving anyways so you're in the right place at the right time for the right opportunity to show itself.
Edit: trawl the hell out of the Jobs board on here for other topics just like your question because it's definitely been discussed since time immemorial.
You're right man, I don't know why I keep trying to find a back door instead of tackling it head on. Personally I feel like I am not ready to head into an investment bank and start working. I have no technicals, I have straight soft skills. I didn't really get a good grip of accounting from my community college so I am looking to tackle it when I transfer to a 4 year. I also need a job, and I am looking for something finance related because I need the money.
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