CQF Course

[ruchi]

Hi There,

I need help in deciding whether I should join CQF or not. I have a bachelors degree in Maths, Masters in Maths and then I did one more Master in Financial Mathermatics.
I still could not find any job in Quant field. I think my financial mathematics degree did not provide me all the knowledge needed to get into this field.
At the moment I am working as a software developer and too frustrated with my job.

Can anyone tell me how easy will it be to get a job after distance learning course from CQF. I am based in Australia.

 

[Prashant.Kumar]

I can't speak much for the additional information that might be in the CQF than in a MFE (since I've not taken either course at this time), but I feel like with respect to knowledge, doing the CQF seems redundant. If your MFE was any good, you should have learned everything you needed to know, and that should be evidenced by any decent placement rate of your program into the field.

That being said, care to share where you did your MFE? Maybe you could share your interview experiences? Maybe your resume could use touching up? Or maybe some non-US (presumably but not limited to Australians) people could chip in with their experiences and thoughts.

EDIT:
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/cqf-as-a-prep-mfe.6466/
Might be worth reading. About CQF-holders going for MFE, but the discussion is relevant.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

According to Paul Wilmott, majority of CQF takers is people already working in finance so career service isn't their priority. That means it is very unlikely that you who already have a master degree in math finance would benefit from CQF or its non-existent career service.