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 The BCIT REA is looking for an individual to fill the role of first year liaison

Description:

• 5-10 hours commitment per month.
• To assist the REA executive members in day-to-day tasks and responsibilities.
• Designed to give a first year student the insight to move into a leadership role in their second year.

Responsibilities: 

• Assist all executive members with the execution of student and industry events.
• Contact student and industry professionals with information about events and other REA happenings.
• Present at some REA board and members meetings.
• Contribute to the REA board with ideas and insight to improve the association.
• Assist Marc, VP of Membership and Communication in sending emails and being a point of contact for the club, particularly to first year students.
• Assist Eric, VP of Information Technology, post recent updates, pictures, and blogs on the REA website.
• Help promote the club and increase membership numbers and meeting participation.

 Qualifications:

• Fluent in the English language and an effective communicator.
• Creative and enthusiastic in providing and generating new ideas.
• Desire to learn and eagerness to contribute.
• Able to multi-task with a strong attention-to-detail.
• Must have the ability to work independently and simultaneously within a group.
• Familiarity with social networking (Facebook, Twitter).
• Must be in or plan to be in the Real Estate Option for second year

 Election/ Presentation Details:

• 3-5 minute presentation (with PowerPoint slides) during the September 22, 2011 member’s meeting – 7:30am.
• Be prepared to answer any possible questions from the REA Executive Board and/ or members.
• Vote by the members followed by announcement of this year’s first year liaison.
• Ideas of what to include (you may add or omit to this list): Who you are, school/ work experience, why you came to BCIT, your interest in Real Estate, your interest in joining the REA Executive Board, career aspirations, hobbies, unique skills and knowledge, and any other relevant information you deem necessary.

The REA Executive Board would like to thank all students who show interest in this position. There will be an election for the position of first year liaison held on September 22, 2011 at 7:30am (SE6, 114). Please contact Marc Yap (marcyap8@gmail.com) no later than Tuesday, September 20, 2011 if you are interested in the position. Please include a copy of your PowerPoint slides in this email.

(Great Hall)

Thank you to everybody who dropped by our booth in the great hall today and all of you who were present in the Telus Theatre during first-year orientation. The BCIT REA Board 2011/ 2012 is very excited to meet all of you in the coming weeks and are looking forward to another great year. Please join us for a brief information session tomorrow (September 7, 2011) from 3:00-3:50pm in SE6, room 112 to discuss our association in greater detail. Please contact Marc (marcyap8@gmail.com) if you would like a copy of the information session flyer and/ or membership application form that were being handed out today.

(Telus Theatre)

Today starts a new term for BCIT Students. A lot of new faces from every single faculty will flood into the campuses around Greater Vancouver for their orientation day of what to expect in a post-secondary life, what BCIT expects from them, what their instructors will expect from them, and what their classmates will expect from them.

This is the same for new BCIT Marketing Manangement Students, they will start their first year in the diploma program, and pretty soon will choose one of the five options available to them with Professional Real Estate as one of those options.  It may seem quite intimidating to some students as to what option to choose and why that choice will change their lives forever, but whatever that choice may be they will have other students along side with them supporting them, reinforcing their understandings, and even changing their paradigms in thinking.

Students who have or will eventually choose the Professional Real Estate option, will experience just exactly the things just mentioned in the previous sentence. They will learn what a real estate market is, why Vancouver is unique compared to Canada and the World, where the world is heading, and what will happen to the landscape of the real estate industry once this recession is over.  It may seem intimidating, frightful, and even unknown, but with the BCIT Real Estate Association helping out smooth the bumpy ride we will all enjoy the ride to our own destinations in the real estate industry, and along the way meet some associates and may be create life-long friendships in the process.

Also make sure you attend today's student orientation day happening from 10 am to 3 pm at the Gym and Student Association Building.

 Eric Chee - VP of Information Technology

BCIT's School of Business Professional Real Estate Program is recognized in all of Canada for both its focus and intensity on learning and application of practice-driven skills. With an emphasis on real estate industry application, the student's learning is founded on business strategy, law, financing, market forecasting, investment analysis, contractual documentation, leadership, teamwork, negotiation, and real property asset management.

The Program

In their first year, students concentrate on developing a solid understanding of core business concepts including integrated marketing and communications for global and local markets, computer skills and Internet marketing basics, business communications, technical sales, economics, business math, and accounting practices.

In the second year of the program, students focus on their specific fields of Professional Real Estate. Combined with additional core competencies such as business law, computer applications, marketing research, and marketing planning, BCIT Marketing Management grads have the benefit of a solid general business foundation, layered with an intensive program specialization.

Upon completion of the two-year full-time program, students are fully prepared to enter the world of commercial, residential, or recreational real estate as a budding entrepreneur or an integral part of a corporate team.

For more information on courses, program details, graduation outcomes, and faculty, please visit the program page here.

Here are a couple of quotes that really stuck out with me from Bob's speech:

• "Always dress professionally and put your best foot forward."
• "Continue to reinvent yourself."
• "Your career is a long game, take your time and enjoy it."
• "Marketing yourself and protecting your brand is important."
• "Market knowledge is very important." "Turn over every stone."
• "Don't send an email in business, pick up the phone whenever possible."
• "Keep your emotions in check, just bite it, let them be right, keep moving."
• "Always make your clients feel special, spend more time with them." "It's about them."

Also, thank you to all of the BCIT Real Estate Associaton and Marketing Associaiton member who were able to attend. The feedback from the event was great.

This coming Monday, April 18th, Mr Bob Rennie of Rennie Marketing Systems and Rennie and Associates will be speaking at BCIT. Bob spoke last year at BCIT and It was definitely one of the highlights of my semester. The event will start at 5:30PM in SW1, 1205, BCIT Burnaby campus.

For more information on Bob, you can check out www.rennie.com, or this great article in Vancouver magazine.

See you Monday night.

Thank you to all REA membrs who made it out. This was a great event with an even better outcome!