career advice needed (cefa/cemap)

JimmyUK_2

Hi,

Excellent forum you have here!

Well, I am writing to hopefully receive some advice from you guys that are experienced and in the 'know'.

I am 26 years old and for the past 3 years I have worked part-time as an office cleaner whilst I studied on some sciencey courses with the Open University- mainly just short courses that haven't led to anything. Anyway, it's not really for me so I have broken away from that now to concentrate on a new career.

I have been looking on the IFS website and I am at two minds about whether I should go for something like Cemap or cefa. My ambition is not to chase highly paid employment but to build a sucessful and secure career helping people with their finances.

However, say for instance I complete cefa, will that qualification stand me in a good position to secure a job to begin with, even though I've had no experience, even in a customer service role? Basically am I likely to encounter any problems finding a job? I wouldn't be worried what sort of job I enter into initally as long as it was secure and not commission only etc! So, would banks and insurance companies be my first port of call when I am qualified? And would a bank or insurance company likely to supervise me and tick the box after a year to say I was a competent FA?

Thanks for your time, as you can probably tell I am a little confused and any help, advice or tips would be much appreciated.

I look forward to reading any replies.

Cheers

dunstonh

Responded to your duplicate thread.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5254301#post5254301

You will find you get more responses on the other thread as none of the mortgage advisers post in this section. The only two active IFAs on the site post in mortgage section as well.

JimmyUK_2

Thanks for that dunstonh, will do