24th April 2010, 11:03 AM
I for one would be all for the IFA scrapping its current grading system and resorting to two grades only - Associate and Member. I would not allow direct entry into Member grade and would make all applicants serve a probationary period as Associate (for the sake of arguement lets say 3 years). After 3 years Associates could submit evidence and references to show their aptitude for consideration for Member grade. Otherwise they stay (happily) as AIFA. This would avoid one of the things that annoys me greatly about the IFA which is people deciding to join when a job that recommends MIFA membership comes up and go straight in at the top.
A time spent at AIFA would allow them to explain at interviews that they had had a late llife conversion to the IFA and hadn't just joined cos they saw the colour of the money!!
A time spent at AIFA would allow them to explain at interviews that they had had a late llife conversion to the IFA and hadn't just joined cos they saw the colour of the money!!
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