Welcome back to UFV School of Business for the 2018-2019 academic year and a special welcome to our new students attending UFV School of Business for the first time in 2018. Being a full-time student of UFV School of Business has some great rewards and this announcement is about one of them.
All UFV School of Business full-time students have access to a free student membership at the Canadian Marketing Association. This membership offers students some very valuable benefits including:
- Access to the very popular Careers Postings. Here is where the who’s who of the marketing world post their employment opportunities for seasoned marketing professionals and new graduates alike and only CMA members can see them. Why is this important – reduced resume competition. Not all business schools offer open access memberships to their full-time students.
- There is another big benefit to the Career Postings: reviewing the many job postings will help you to determine the kinds of marketing careers you are interested in and then you can match their required skills to the learning outcomes of the courses you register in at UFV School of Business. This ability will definitely allow you to hit the ground running at graduation time and give you a competitive advantage by making sure you are a perfect match for the job.
- Access to the marketing knowledge bank curated by CMA. Having access to this knowledge bank is a marketers dream. There is primary, secondary and white paper data on a wide variety of products, product categories, industry practices, marketing communication development, and so much more, all at your desktop. This benefit makes getting the industry data APA requirements of your assignments easy, peasy.
- Access to networking and professional development events hosted by CMA. All year long CMA offers networking and professional development training to its members across Canada. Student memberships entitle you to participate in these events. Many are free. Where there is a registration, they have been deep-discounted for student members to encourage their attendance. Attending these events will help you develop the contacts you will need upon graduation to get that so important, first career job in marketing.
So what are you waiting for – sign-up now! Simply follow these easy instructions:
Go to https://www.the-cma.org/about/mycma-sign-up to create your account. Your email must be your UFV student email: firstname.lastname@student.ufv.ca, to verify you are a registered full-time UFV student. Once you enter your information a confirmation email will be sent to your UFV email account. Simply follow its directions to set-up your user account and password.