Without making this sound like a humble-brag (I hate those), I am looking for opinions on my situation: any help from FSAs (especially life or health tracks) or CERAs is much appreciated.
I have passed two of the Health Track FSA exams. I need to decide between taking the ERM exam or the Group Health Specialty exam. I have life events happening this exam "semester", and won't be able to get a ton of study time.
That being said, I feel as though I have a good chance of passing GHSPC in April, as the topics cover a lot of products I work on, and the pass rate for that exam is comparably higher than ERM or GHADV or GHCORU.
Alternatively, I could "skip" this exam semester (complete FSA modules) and shoot for GHSPC or ERM in October. ERM has a 40% pass rate, and is four hours.
I thought I would want to get a CERA (and be "special") but now I am not 100% on that. Two reasons: I don't know if the CERA will help me more in my current role (specialty health products, DI, CI), and I have doubts about other industries even having any knowledge on the credential. As I see it, I have a sure fire FSA by the end of the year with GHSPC, or I can take a risk to get some extra letters.....that might not matter.
Either way, I could get some other credential (CFA, FRM) if I really felt it necessary to have something that other industries recognize.
Am I discounting the CERA/ERM training too much? I just feel like even with a CERA I won't be qualified for ERM roles, I'm not a CPA and have not worked in Financial Risk before. Or am I just being a weenie?
I have passed two of the Health Track FSA exams. I need to decide between taking the ERM exam or the Group Health Specialty exam. I have life events happening this exam "semester", and won't be able to get a ton of study time.
That being said, I feel as though I have a good chance of passing GHSPC in April, as the topics cover a lot of products I work on, and the pass rate for that exam is comparably higher than ERM or GHADV or GHCORU.
Alternatively, I could "skip" this exam semester (complete FSA modules) and shoot for GHSPC or ERM in October. ERM has a 40% pass rate, and is four hours.
I thought I would want to get a CERA (and be "special") but now I am not 100% on that. Two reasons: I don't know if the CERA will help me more in my current role (specialty health products, DI, CI), and I have doubts about other industries even having any knowledge on the credential. As I see it, I have a sure fire FSA by the end of the year with GHSPC, or I can take a risk to get some extra letters.....that might not matter.
Either way, I could get some other credential (CFA, FRM) if I really felt it necessary to have something that other industries recognize.
Am I discounting the CERA/ERM training too much? I just feel like even with a CERA I won't be qualified for ERM roles, I'm not a CPA and have not worked in Financial Risk before. Or am I just being a weenie?
CERA or Nah?