u/Jager_Master

A question for anyone that pivoted from a different industry/role into financial planning and specifically, financial administration. How on earth did you manage to land a job? Every post I see on job boards expects minimum 2 years experience in a similar role.

I've been managing my own investments for the last 5 years, and have begun studying for the CII DipPFS this year, passed R01 and currently studying towards R02. Anywhere else you would recommend looking besides Indeed and other main vacancy sites?

As the title says, I'm wondering how people go about finding reliable plumbers. My situation is somewhat difficult, in that I need 5 radiators installing on the bottom floor of a 3 story town house, and given that the boiler is in the loft and central heating only on the top 2 floors, no plumber seems to want to touch the job (2 separate British gas engineers included).

How would you recommend i go about finding a decent reliable outfit to do the job? Thanks in advance

Edit: based in England in South Yorkshire

Started on my DipPFS journey today by enrolling in R01 and getting started on the 25/26 textbook. Considering the text is pretty dry, but dense with acronyms, dates and definitions, I wondered if anyone had any tips in terms of order of operations in using the textbook vs audio files vs revision mate etc.

My game plan was to read through the study text and make notes of meaningful facts/definitions/acronyms, however considering there are so many, my notes are hardly condensed. Are there any resources which allow for practice questions to be broken down into chapters of the book, or sub-sections? I would like to test my retention but realised any practice questions I encountered were based on much more than the first couple chapters.

How often were you guys doing practice questions compared to simply reading the material and making notes?

Thanks in advance