Career Prospects and Job Opportunities for an Economics Graduate
Dear Jarus,
(2)Should I finish with my degree first and take ICAN?
- Lecturing in a higher institution
- Getting job in advisory units of professional services firms like PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young etc,
- Investment banking
- Regular banking
- Commercial/Business analysts in different industries
- Management consulting and advisory firms
- Analysts in research institutes/firms
Economics is also attractive to top international institutions, but with minimum of Masters in the subject.
But we can’t ignore the fact that a good number of economics graduates write professional exams in Accounting and Finance. I also wrote ICAN exams and became a chartered accountant and it helped my career as I have done accounting jobs for 10 years.
The major advantage of writing those professional exams is that they widen your options – you can apply to jobs require Economics degree and as well as Accounting and Finance jobs.
If you decide to write Accounting professional qualification, you could start from school via ATS route, but make sure it doesn’t affect your studies which is primary. Professional exams can always wait, but bad grade may not be able to wait. While some of us waited till after graduation before writing ICAN exams, a good number of my classmates were writing ICAN then and they still made good grade. So if you can combine the two, there is no harm in it at all. And it makes you hit the labour market running.
I wish you all the best.
Jarus
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