Qualification: is it worth the candle

From a company perspective, various financial qualifications fill the skills gaps of newcomers. Moreover, the fact that the gaps may not be so much real as imaginary is not so important for the company. This comrade who has passed through the crucible of qualification can not prove to anyone that he is not a camel. But the newbie aruba wireless certification.

Hence the main advantage of qualifications for the financier himself: it is one of the most direct ways to demonstrate that you meet the gold standard.

Are there other ways to demonstrate your professional worth? Yes, full! Years of successful experience, for example. Public speeches, articles or magazine interviews. A solid position in a brand company. All this, of course, is not an alternative to obtaining a qualification, but, as a rule, it takes much more time. Although for others, it happens, and the trip for the coveted diploma of CIMA or ACCA can eat up the lion's share of youth. We will talk more than once about strategies for avoiding this .

So, first things first, your fresh accesory diploma is a demonstration of the minimum required skill level . This explains the notorious passing score of 50%. Once in the conditions of the exam fever you were able to gnaw half of the problems, then in real life - when you can look into the standards, build a table in Excel, finish the task until nightfall, and so on - you will cope with a lot.

Let's go further. It probably did not escape the attentive reader that in these four and a half paragraphs the word "skill" came across as many as two times. As the great A.P. Chekhov taught us, whose 150th anniversary we are celebrating this year, if the word "skill" appears in the first lines of the article more than two times, then this word will surely "shoot".

How is skill different from knowledge? Practical orientation. The job of ACCA or CIMA is to make sure that you can do something, not think about how to do it. Thus, in contrast to academic education, you actually learn to handle all the rich contents of a financier's “doctor's case”. Here lies the answer to the age-old dilemma of students who are in eternal time trouble: what, they say, to do first - to read a textbook, and then solve problems, or how? It turns out that the minimum possible time should be spent on the textbook. If after the lectures at least it turns out to solve problems, then it is better to solve and analyze the answer, then solve it again and again. We will also talk about this sometime .

By the time you acquire a diploma, you have already solved so many problems yourself (albeit sometimes standard ones, "as a blueprint") that the employer can only introduce you to his specific terminology, and you are a ready-made specialist. We get the second advantage of qualifications: this is the most practically directed training that can be obtained in business at the desk.

And the last thing. Both CIMA and ACCA are constantly updated, trying to cover the full range of the most pressing problems growing in the financial professional field. Membership fees that keep professional associations up-to-date and enhance the prestige of the profession ultimately work for you. The rigorous procedures, the growing obsession with professional ethics, the global reach, the research activities of these organizations all indicate that you are behind a significant brand that is not going to give up its position. Of course, everyone wants the professional association to be proud of us more than we consider membership to be our greatest achievement in life. And, however, at the initial stages of a career, such a "locomotive" will not be superfluous.

I want to emphasize that you can harvest a full harvest from a qualification tree if you take care of it at the beginning of your career, not forgetting about the vegetative period, those same couple of years. It is at the beginning of the journey that belonging to a well-known brand, a ready-made set of skills and conformity with the "standard" certified by the association may turn out to be more significant than you yourself, than your professional self, which has yet to be earned by many years of experience, defending your position at professional conferences and other more costly in terms of time and effort ways. In other words, qualifications give you a better and easier start.