Career Transition

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#1

Hi,

I have recently joined this forum and I am looking for some advice regarding career shift. I have done my MBA in Finance (Part Time) from a decent college in India. After the MBA, I joined a financial information provider where I honed my secondary research skills. The work primarily relates to collecting and synthesizing M&A and Bankruptcy related data. I have spent close to 7 years with this company and am working in the middle management. In between, I took a shot at starting my own venture but it did not do well. While moving back to the corporate sector, I cleared CFA Level 1 as well.

I am looking to move into the Investment Research field. However, I have been facing great difficulty in making this shift. I do not get relevant calls from recruiters and whenever I do, things don’t materialize. Can you please provide me an insight as to how I can break into this field? Are there any courses available which I can do along with my present job? Should I be looking at doing a full time MBA (GMAT)?

Please suggest. Thanks!

#2

There are a lot of reasons why you likely will not be chosen for a research job:

part time MBA

“decent” MBA

middle managemet

data collection

age

location

#3

are you cute?

#4

@ itera: Thanks for the reply. Do you think pursuing CFA further will help? Or Should I take GMAT and then go for a full time MBA?

#5

Pursue CFA further. I think full time MBA programs will frown at that you already have an MBA and want to get another one. Also, move out of India, that is probably the best thing you can do for your career,

#6

@Ramos - Thanks for the help. Moving out of India seems difficult at present. I will definitely pursue CFA further.