新加坡SMU的MAF面试要注意一些什么？

tweety0930

这个我考GMAT的时候送报告了，不过没申请，似乎要求工作经验吧，我没有。。。

zonquan

以下是引用pemerson在2007-3-27 21:36:00的发言：

Many thanks to eetofin...

恭喜楼主,凭你的G他们不收你才怪呢,去年的平均分好象才六百多

不过你的面试怎么是三个人的,我去的那天都是一对一的,难道是报名人多了或者是他们在赶时间,不过我看了一下,application deadline整整延迟了一个月,前面一种可能性比较小,所以貌似PROGRAM DIRECTOR最近比较忙啊...对了,楼主打不打算去呢?

我GMAT的作文分很差的，才3.5分，都是背模板害的啊。

我只报了SMU，没有别的选择，已经在网上register了。当初的考虑是：NTU对我这个上班族来说太远了，而且part-time要2年的时间，也没有计划full-time。所以我就选择了SMU，我只要有个master degree + CFA CERTIFICATE，能跨入金融行业就行了，以后还是要靠自己努力的。如果我是读full-time的话，应该会选择NTU的MFE的。

面试的时候，director说人太多了，一对一忙不过来，只好三个人一起面试。我们问工作小姐为什么延迟了一个月，她回答是报名人不是太少了，而是太多了，到现在为止已经收到了1500多份申请，不知道是真还是假。不过我发现SMU其他的专业都是3月底的。

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-3-28 12:28:01编辑过]

eetofin

To zonquan,

The part-time 2-years study is not a big issue, and it does not mean that you cannot find a finance job until 2 years later. In some aspects, it has advantages compared to full-time 1 year study.

I started my MFE study at NUS from last August, and I had not worked in the financial industry at that time.

In this Feb., I started finding a finance job and interviewed with 3 IBs (2 global leading and 1 regional leading). I got an offer in this month. I need to continue my MFE study for at least one more year. Some of my classmates even found a finance job in last semester, which is their first semester of part-time MFE study.

Yes, part-time study is more intensive when you need to work full-time at the same time, but on the other hand, you may master what you learn in classes better by using them in your daily work.  

As for the CFA, I doubt its usefulness for landing a job in the financial industry. Nowadays, too many people take CFA and its value has been decreasing rapidly in the past few years.  I know more than 3 people who have passed CFA level 2 but have not found a job. From what I have seen, MFE is more useful than CFA to jump into the financial industry.  One reason may be the relatively small number of MFE graduates. Every year, less  than 100 MFE graduate from NTU and NUS, while I guess there are hundreds of people who take CFA exams each year.

tweety0930

请问楼上的，nus的mfe没有面试，对不对？

通常多久出结果呢？

eetofin

To tweety0930

No interview for NUS MFE. The application deadline is March 15 and the results come out in May.

pemerson

To tweety0930, MAF的admission requirement里写的两年工作经验后面加了个Preferred,所以我刚毕业也敢报,而且面试的时候DIRECTOR好象也没问我这方面的硬伤,所以个人感觉没有工作经验问题不大,关键面试好点就行了,如果你想报的话现在还来的及,月底才是报名截止.

如果收了1500份的话好象太夸张了吧,去年收了70多个学生,今年就算扩招,估计也就收一百个,15:1的比例,不是很可信啊...

tweety0930

谢谢各位

我昨天仔细一看，确实是prepered。呵。多谢了，临近毕业，太忙了，弄材料太费事了，nus的材料刚交上，现在还欠ntu一封推荐信呢。

1500确实有点夸张，ntu我是最后一天报名的，编号306。nus可能由于只接受在本地的申请者，他们说收到200个左右

tweety0930

eetofin您的说法我赞同


兼职某种程度上比全职还要好，我打算兼职读，不管最后是拿到ntu还是nus

只是请问，时间来得及吗？晚上6：30上课？要和老板说好，提前下班啊？！

zonquan

以下是引用eetofin在2007-3-28 11:15:00的发言：

To zonquan,

The part-time 2-years study is not a big issue, and it does not mean that you cannot find a finance job until 2 years later. In some aspects, it has advantages compared to full-time 1 year study.

I started my MFE study at NUS from last August, and I had not worked in the financial industry at that time.

In this Feb., I started finding a finance job and interviewed with 3 IBs (2 global leading and 1 regional leading). I got an offer in this month. I need to continue my MFE study for at least one more year. Some of my classmates even found a finance job in last semester, which is their first semester of part-time MFE study.

Yes, part-time study is more intensive when you need to work full-time at the same time, but on the other hand, you may master what you learn in classes better by using them in your daily work.  

As for the CFA, I doubt its usefulness for landing a job in the financial industry. Nowadays, too many people take CFA and its value has been decreasing rapidly in the past few years.  I know more than 3 people who have passed CFA level 2 but have not found a job. From what I have seen, MFE is more useful than CFA to jump into the financial industry.  One reason may be the relatively small number of MFE graduates. Every year, less  than 100 MFE graduate from NTU and NUS, while I guess there are hundreds of people who take CFA exams each year.

当然是master degree为主，CFA为辅，单单考个CFA对工科背景的人来说用处不大。但是在有master degree的前提下，有个CFA比没有要好一些，感觉就象中国的四六级证书一样。

我也打算读书读到一半的时候去找finance job。。。

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-3-28 13:10:11编辑过]

zonquan

to pemerson, 你打算选择SMU吗？