{"id":3999,"date":"2016-09-13T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2016-09-13T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:37:02","slug":"ufv-today-physics-math-skills-apply-marketing-job-science-student-josh-friesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2016\/09\/13\/ufv-today-physics-math-skills-apply-marketing-job-science-student-josh-friesen\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Today &#8230; Physics and math skills apply in marketing for job for science student, Josh Friesen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4000\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"josh-friesen-3-blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/09\/Josh-Friesen-3-BLOG.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When you think about what kind of summer job a physics student might land, would marketing pop into your mind?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly didn\u2019t for UFV physics and math student <strong>Josh Friesen<\/strong>, but he recently wrapped up a work semester in the marketing department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospera.ca\/\">Prospera Credit Union<\/a> in Abbotsford. And he found that the analytical skills he\u2019s learned in his physics and math classes were well suited to the\u00a0 job.<\/p>\n<p>Friesen is working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/calendar\/current\/ProgramsR-Z\/SCI_BSC.htm\">Bachelor of Science <\/a>degree with double minors in <a href=\"http:\/\/ufv.ca\/physics\/\">physics <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/ufv.ca\/math\/\">statistics<\/a>, while concurrently completing UFV\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ufv.ca\/math\/data-analysis\/\">Data Analysis certificate<\/a>. And he\u2019s also pursuing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/jobs\/co-operative-education\/\">Cooperative Education<\/a> option at UFV by completing a series of paid work terms at businesses and organizations &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/physics-and-math-skills-apply-in-marketing-job-for-ufv-co-op-student-josh-friesen\/\">Read more from UFV Today <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think about what kind of summer job a physics student might land, would marketing pop into your mind? It certainly didn\u2019t for UFV physics and math student Josh Friesen, but he recently wrapped up a work semester in the marketing department of Prospera Credit Union in Abbotsford. And he found that the analytical &#8230; <a title=\"UFV Today &#8230; Physics and math skills apply in marketing for job for science student, Josh Friesen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2016\/09\/13\/ufv-today-physics-math-skills-apply-marketing-job-science-student-josh-friesen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":4000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,5,58,164,6],"tags":[190,211,212,191,46,213,74,172],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-mathstats","category-news","category-newsletter","category-physics","tag-cafce","tag-careers-in-math","tag-careers-in-physics","tag-co-op","tag-co-operative-education","tag-marketing","tag-math","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}