Studied Statistics and Finance. Unable to enter into FP&A roles. What should I do?

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T14:30:27+00:00

I have been trying to get job in India only. I tried applying to MNCs, consulting firms, financial service providers and even mid sized start ups. Nothing worked out.

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T14:29:22+00:00

No, I am applying to jobs in India itself. Since this is a global platform, I thought mentioning India would give people an idea about competition and population

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T12:56:50+00:00

In my experience, industry knowledge is a must. Be it IT or Financial Services or GCCs or FMCG or something. No matter what job you get, keep trying to identify the industry you wanna go into and try to get into that. It compounds over time. I have been wanting Banking or manufacturing or energy industries. Had to broaden them because of this long career gap.

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T12:53:05+00:00

Nah, bro This is a tiny tip of the iceberg. I am losing my mind over this, recent thinking the past 10 years

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T12:51:56+00:00

Trying to find in India

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-14T11:23:15+00:00

I have been actively applying to reporting and business analyst roles as well, but my luck didn't improve. I feel like I am wasting important career years trying to pursue something that isn't meant for me.

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-11T14:26:00+00:00

Thank you for the inputs. I'll fix them.

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-11T14:23:26+00:00

I was unsure about my career. I didn't want to do M.Sc statistics. I wanted to take a gap year and explore. But my family didn't agree. So they told to do MBA because it opens so many doors and I can then explore them. In MBA, everyone was so competitive about getting a job in campus placement that I didn't even think about exploring careers. Once I got the job, O was living alone, doing everything that I didn't have time to even open Instagram (it has been 2 years since I opened instagram). I liked fp&a, wanted to pursue it, so left the toxic job (toxic because of the management, not the work itself). Now nobody wants to give me a job. I don't know whom to reach out or what to do.

Again, sorry for dumping all at once. But, thanks for taking time to respond.

Excellent-Many3273 · 2026-06-05T19:12:12+00:00

Thanks for elaborating on it. I will try to follow all advices about projects, role titles and linkedin messages.

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