{"id":942,"date":"2018-09-04T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-03-09T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:58:18","slug":"free-student-membership-at-the-canadian-marketing-association-for-full-time-business-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/2018\/09\/04\/free-student-membership-at-the-canadian-marketing-association-for-full-time-business-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Free student membership at the Canadian Marketing Association for full-time business students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Being a full-time student of UFV School of Business has some great rewards and this announcement is about one of them.<\/p>\n<p>All UFV School of Business full-time students have access to a free student membership at the Canadian Marketing Association.\u00a0 This membership offers students some very valuable benefits including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Access to the very popular Careers Postings.\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is where the who\u2019s 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 \u2013 reduced resume competition.\u00a0 Not all business schools offer open access memberships to their full-time students.<\/li>\n<li>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.\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Access to the marketing knowledge bank curated by CMA.<\/strong> Having access to this knowledge bank is a marketers dream.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This benefit makes getting the industry data APA requirements of your assignments easy, peasy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to networking and professional development events hosted by CMA.<\/strong> All year long CMA offers networking and professional development training to its members across Canada.\u00a0 Student memberships entitle you to participate in these events.\u00a0 Many are free.\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what are you waiting for \u2013 sign-up now!\u00a0 Simply follow these easy instructions:<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-cma.org\/about\/mycma-sign-up\">https:\/\/www.the-cma.org\/about\/mycma-sign-up<\/a> to create your account.\u00a0 Your email must be your UFV student email: <a href=\"mailto:firstname.lastname@student.ufv.ca\">firstname.lastname@student.ufv.ca<\/a>, to verify you are a registered full-time UFV student.\u00a0 Once you enter your information a confirmation email will be sent to your UFV email account.\u00a0 Simply follow its directions to set-up your user account and password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Free student membership at the Canadian Marketing Association for full-time business students\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/2018\/09\/04\/free-student-membership-at-the-canadian-marketing-association-for-full-time-business-students\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-area-marketing","category-community-partnerships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}