Megan DeRoche documented her attendance and reflections on four outside events related to her CFP program from January to April 2016. She listened to tips for interviewing from Don Minor of Merrill Lynch, applied and interviewed for an internship at Merrill Lynch to gain interview experience and insight into the company, attended a webinar on research to increase the number of women CFPs, and listened to presentations from financial professionals at MetLife and American Funds to expand her industry knowledge and networking skills.
Megan DeRoche documented her attendance and reflections on four outside events related to her CFP program from January to April 2016. She listened to tips for interviewing from Don Minor of Merrill Lynch, applied and interviewed for an internship at Merrill Lynch to gain interview experience and insight into the company, attended a webinar on research to increase the number of women CFPs, and listened to presentations from financial professionals at MetLife and American Funds to expand her industry knowledge and networking skills.
Megan DeRoche documented her attendance and reflections on four outside events related to her CFP program from January to April 2016. She listened to tips for interviewing from Don Minor of Merrill Lynch, applied and interviewed for an internship at Merrill Lynch to gain interview experience and insight into the company, attended a webinar on research to increase the number of women CFPs, and listened to presentations from financial professionals at MetLife and American Funds to expand her industry knowledge and networking skills.
Description: Listen to Don Minor of Merrill Lynch give helpful tips
and recommendations for the interview process Relation to CFP program: Learning how to progress as a professional financial planner can start in the interview process. Significance of the Event: Gained knowledge of how to present myself as a professional
Merrill Lynch Interview
February
16, 2016
Description: Applied and prepared for an interview for Merrill
Lynch Financial Advisor Internship Relation to CFP program: Meeting and establishing relationships with other business professionals is important in the financial planning industry Significance of the Event: Gained a deeper insight into Merrill Lynch and was able to improve on my interview skills
Bright talk Webinar
Description: listen to an explanation of the research conducted
on the desire to increase the number of CFP professions Relation to CFP program: gives a deeper insight to the professional world Significance of the Event: learned more about the efforts to increase women CFPs in a predominately male profession
Student Financial Planning Association
March 11, 2016
April 5, 2016
Description: Listen to Rich Schega, a partner at MetLife Premier
Client Group of Louisiana explain the misconceptions of sales and what sales really entails
Relation to CFP program: Learning how to become a better leader
through motivating others is a great quality to strive for as a CFP Significance of the Event: Gained knowledge of how to encourage your clients to take the best actions in order for them to have enough finances regardless of the situation
Baton Rouge Financial Planning
April
7, 2016
Description: Listen to presentation from Burke Patterson with
American Funds Relation to CFP program: Improve on my networking skills as a business professional Significance of the Event: Gained practice on my networking skill as well as observe successful components of a well established company