Graduating soon and worried I won't find employment

[DanielSong39]

At this point you might as well put the time in and try to break joni308 and dickmwong's records.

Hey, it's worth a shot.

[kmbrunskill]

Originally Posted by DanielSong39

At this point you might as well put the time in and try to break joni308 and dickmwong's records.

Hey, it's worth a shot.

Records?

[kmbrunskill]

Originally Posted by AAABBBCCC

I wouldnt recommend becoming an actuary if you have test anxiety or anxiety. You will be tortured by tedious exams that you will have to pass under extreme pressure. good luck with that.

I will agree with this.

[DanielSong39]

Originally Posted by kmbrunskill

Records?

Apparently they've breezed through all the preliminaries with perfect or near-perfect scores. I think they were scoring 95+% on their practice problems with numerous perfect scores.

The kicker was when a high passmark in the MFE sitting caused dickmwong to score a perfect 9 on the exam.

[deathfrombelow]

Originally Posted by DanielSong39

Apparently they've breezed through all the preliminaries with perfect or near-perfect scores. I think they were scoring 95+% on their practice problems with numerous perfect scores.

The kicker was when a high passmark in the MFE sitting caused dickmwong to score a perfect 9 on the exam.

Not sure I'd call those records. Lots of people do well, but most don't feel the compulsive need to tell it on AO. Matter of fact, if you're bragging about your test skills to a bunch of strangers on the Interwebs, you probably aren't even all that smart, and you definitely have low self-esteem

[SyZ]

I think I'm going to sign up for it, even though 200 dollars (no student discount) sucks when my remaining budget is like ... 500. But if I don't sign up and attempt it and then graduate and try to move into the field, no answer I give to 'why didn't you take the recent test in May?' will be good enough.

So if my current chances of landing a job with 0 exams and 0 internships is about 1%, what would it be if I pass this exam? 2%?

[Annie Howe]

You have a pretty good chance of passing P.

I have no idea about your percentage chances...

I am a career changer with 2 exams, taking the 3rd in May. I have no internship, and I have a PhD in statistical physics, which come people say is good, some say not.

I am doing contract programming, part time... That was the only job I could find so I took it. I tried to get *ANY* job, full time. I even lined up at Toysrus along with a huge number of people to submit my dumbed down resume. There was an immigrant medical doctor behind me on the line.

Edit: I was rejected for a minimum wage programming job because I "don't have enough experience". Economy? People think I will leave just as soon as I get "experience"? I don't know.

Getting into anything is hard right now, but you probably shouldn't give it up without giving it a fair shot.

You don't sound confident. Even if you are not confident, I would try to act and seem confident.

[AAABBBCCC]

Originally Posted by emelnd

You have a pretty good chance of passing P.

I have no idea about your percentage chances...

I am a career changer with 2 exams, taking the 3rd in May. I have no internship, and I have a PhD in statistical physics, which come people say is good, some say not.

I am doing contract programming, part time... That was the only job I could find so I took it. I tried to get *ANY* job, full time. I even lined up at Toysrus along with a huge number of people to submit my dumbed down resume. There was an immigrant medical doctor behind me on the line.

Edit: I was rejected for a minimum wage programming job because I "don't have enough experience". Economy? People think I will leave just as soon as I get "experience"? I don't know.

Getting into anything is hard right now, but you probably shouldn't give it up without giving it a fair shot.

You don't sound confident. Even if you are not confident, I would try to act and seem confident.

Canada sucks.

[Vorian Atreides]

Originally Posted by SyZ

I think I'm going to sign up for it, even though 200 dollars (no student discount) sucks when my remaining budget is like ... 500. But if I don't sign up and attempt it and then graduate and try to move into the field, no answer I give to 'why didn't you take the recent test in May?' will be good enough.

So if my current chances of landing a job with 0 exams and 0 internships is about 1%, what would it be if I pass this exam? 2%?

Finances are a valid reason for not sitting for an Exam.

However, your chances of getting an interview with 0 Exams is Slim to None . . . and Slim left town. Put another way, the chances are still positive, but rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent, it'll be 0.0%.

However, if you know Slim, pretty well, then your chances increase quite a bit.

But I would sit for the Exam just to get one passed. Then your chances of getting an interview become "noticable". That is, more like 1%; unless you know Slim. Then it might increase to something like 5% until you pass that second Exam.

[Vorian Atreides]

Originally Posted by AAABBBCCC

Canada sucks.

Is that why the wind is usually blowing north?