I think you should take an english class if you plan to work in a role where it’s the spoken language. Your post is riddled with errors and even if you make the best possible conclusion you won’t be able to effectively communicate it with your current mastery. You have a good undergrad degree in computer science. What do you want to do? Where do you want to work? There is not enough information to give you any advice, but you’re career is NOT going hay-wire. You just graduated and you don’t know what you want to do long term - that’s normal. So you’re basically saying you’re a human being.
This. The opportunities are about a bazillion to one and the comp insane if you’re in the right area. I know IT guys making half a mil just plugging away 9-5. Find the right contract opportunity in a valued niche and you’re golden.
I’m sorry if the last post was “riddled with errors”.
All I want to know is if, for a Computer Science graduate like me, digressing into this whole new field is worth taking a shot at or not !
I’m not trying for an IT job right now because for all I know, here in India people struggle for years before getting a respectable salary. So IT job is out of the question.
Someone please tell me what are the job prospects for a person of my qualification trying for CFA .What if I look for a job suppose after clearing Level 2 CFA?What if someone doesnt clear all the 3 levels in one go but still wants a decent enough job?
FYI : I graduated in 2012, started with Masters in Business Eco. in 2012, dropped a year due to an accident and here I am. No work experience as of now apart from two summer internships- one in BHEL (its a PSU in India) and other is dunnhumby- a consumer science and analytics firm.
I’d hardly say your career is going “haywire” – you haven’t even started your career yet.
The “I’m an IT professional considering taking the CFA to break into finance” story is not an original one around here. The reason you’re getting the “get an IT job!” responses is because most of the folks here have a keen appreciation how hard it is to break into high finance through the standard paths, much less a path like “Indian IT --> Masters in Econ --> Finance.”
I think you ought to strongly consider the reasons you want to shift over, and then investigate as to whether it is actually worth it. The unfortunate truth is that the odds will be stacked against you if you’re trying to get to IB/ER/AM.
_O_bviously taking and passing the CFA exams would be progress and would enhance your chances, but I’m not sure it will have the magnitude of effect you might imagine.
^This…if you think it’s “out of the question” to get an IT job in India because of the masses of people doing that, you’re out of luck with finance…because there are just as many indian IT people looking to go into finance like you because they think it’s an easy transfer. CFA will not help you break into finance, it can help you advance if you’re already in. Continue with what you started, look for a computer science/engineer job, that is your background and will be easier than trying to break into a new field.
“Haywire”? few people are on the perfect life track before they are 25. I certainly wasn’t and I bet most others can say the same.
What I did do was make sure I had a respectable job and was gaining experience. Figure out the rest as you go along. Not every hedge fund manager started on the buy-side when they were 23.
So many people stress the blue-chip track to getting somewhere, but unless you were told that when you were in HS you really just need to do something. Get into the biggest most well known company you can in the type of role that most closely relates to what you want to do and keep going.