Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification and DataCamp Access

The following are some resources that will allow you to gain professional skills and make your CVs more impactful in the job market. I suggest you take advantage of these as soon as possible as the sooner you have them on your CV the more traction you will gain in your professional development.

All these resources are free of charge to SMS students and all take place online. Note that it is forbidden to share the information below, anyone breaking this rule will be banned from any future initiatives.

You can find more detailed information in the attached slides and all these activities are fully online.

If you encounter any problems then please double check you have read the instructions and followed the precise steps as described below.

Most queries we receive are from students who haven’t read the instructions.

Bloomberg is the financial industry standard for data acquisition and news, and the Bloomberg Market Concepts certification will add a powerful line to your CV and I strongly encourage you to take it. In order to do so, sign up in in the link below;

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/expertise/universities/

and use the code 6HB4Z3PFGR.

Make sure you use your QMUL email address and use the link above so that the cost of the course is covered by our license. If you sign up with your private email address you will be charged $149 for the course.

In order to acquire the BMC Certification you will take four courses:

• Economic Indicators;
• Currencies;
• Fixed Income;
• Equities.

They are all based on first-principles common-sense so there is no finance knowledge pre-requisite.

Throughout the courses you will have to solve certain multiple choice questions, and you will get the BMC regardless of the grade you achieve.
I would strongly suggest you try to get a high grade as then you can add that to your CV and it will be useful if you apply to work at Bloomberg.
The four courses should take around one (very full time) day to complete, and maybe a week if spread the work into daily 2h sessions.

This will expire on 1^st October 2022 but I strongly suggest you get it done ASAP so that you can put it on your CV and LinkedIn.

There are additional finance courses that you can take on this platform and also add to your CV.

DataCamp is an exclusive online system that provides courses on industry oriented technology with a slant towards data science, and includes courses on Python, R, Excel, SQL, probability/statistics, machine learning etc. I very strongly encourage you to take advantage of this resource to build your professional transferrable skills.

To access it you will need to click on the link below;

https://www.datacamp.com/groups/shared_links/c3c26315bf234624892eab095c6933a6cb768e8c89e6935fb5738d3637f439a2 

Make sure you use your QMUL email address in the form xy12345@qmul.ac.uk . If you try to enrol with your n.surname@se20.qmul.ac.uk or your private email address the cost of the service ($33.25 per month) will not be covered by our QMUL subscription.

Also make sure you enrol through the link above and not through www.datacamp.com   

If you have used a previous QMUL SMS DataCamp license and it has expired, you will still need to re-enrol with the link above. All progress in your courses will be transferred over automatically.

Note that this DataCamp educational license will expire in March 2022. We will aim at renewing it but I suggest you take advantage of it ASAP.

Through QMUL you also have access to LinkedIn Learning where you can take around 5000 courses. 

The coverage is much wider than DataCamp in that there is no particular focus: e.g you can find courses on photography or electronics. 

You might find many course related to your degree: Time Series, Machine Learning, Statistics and Probability, R, Python, SAS, etc

To access it follow the instructions here: http://www.profdev.qmul.ac.uk/what-we-offer-/linkedin-learning/

Kind regards,

Sebastian (s.delbanorollin@qmul.ac.uk)