This blog page will showcase my efforts at school, at work, at play and everywhere in between. For a complete list of my blog postings, click on the red box in the top right hand corner of the main page. This blog is also an assignment for my BSYS 1000 course at BCIT. The assignment [...]
Welcome
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Tags: BCIT, BSYS1000, Communication, e-portfolio, Effort, Professional, School, Student, Technology, WordPress
Investors Group Inc.
For the past year, I have been working as an administrative assistant at Investors Group Inc. Investors group is a financial firm providing financial and insurance planning to everyday people. My duties as an assistant includes the processing of transactions, the marketing of consultant and company, and general office correspondence. My experience with Investors group has [...]
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Bucket List
The premise of having a “Bucket list” is to create and manage ways to reflect your individuality, passions, and desires. Satisfying activities on your Bucket list will promote living a more complete life – one with no ‘shoulda coulda wouldas’. Bucket list activities can include those cliche activities, as long as you genuinly find value [...]
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ME to WE Event
We Day is a one-of-a-kind event featuring inspirational and motivational speeches and performances by leading activists, speakers and entertainers. It is an annual celebration of the power of young people to change the world. It’s also the official kick-off to youth-led world-changing actions. Students are encouraged to take action throughout 2009-2010 through Free The Children’s [...]
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Intro to Nokia
As stated in an earlier Blog Post, BSYS 1000 also introduces students to more intermiate uses of the internet. Web blogging and online publishing are areas that marketers tend to concentrate on. Lulu.com is an online self publishing and printing tool that provides the opportunity for regular Joe Blow’s to present their literature to the world and [...]
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Learning MS Office Excel 07
As required by most business oriented programs, all students are introduced to the Microscoft Office Office Suite in first year. The course, Business Information Systems 1 , provides students with basic knowledge in Word, Excel and Powerpoint softwares in addition to intermidiate uses of the internet. The aspects of this course, I believe, are the [...]
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Prepaid Cell Phones & Marketing
Learning how to communicate well is an integral part of becoming a business professional. The Intro to Business and Technical Communciation course teaches students practical oral and written skills that are standard and expected in everyday business environments. The course is very related to an academic writing course as it encompasses writting techniques and grammar. [...]
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Intro to Marketing
Currently I am attending BCIT for its Marketing Communications Program. (Program details available on BCIT’s Business Website) The Marketing Communications program at BCIT will make you job-ready with essential skills for a wide range of employment opportunities in: Advertising Public relations Event marketing Internet marketing Sales promotion Database marketing Because I am attending a Marketing program, the [...]
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Organizational Behaviour & Team Charter
Organizational Behaviour is a course required by most current Business Programs. “[The] course presents the study of factors that either influence or are influenced by people at work. Focuses on macro factors such as organizational structure, technology and environment; group factors such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, change and decision-making; and individual factors such as [...]
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Why Choose BCIT
Before attending my current school, British Columbia’s Institute of Technology, I attended both Douglas College and Simon Fraser University. My experience at these two schools only emphasized the fact that I needed to attend a school that ignites creativity and develops individuals into true professionals. Within few weeks of classes at BCIT, we were assigned [...]
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School
BCIT is a polytechnic Institute in Burnaby, BC that provides full and part time studies leading to certificates, diplomas, and bachelor degrees in technology and trades. While I've only been attending BCIT for less than a semester, I can already tell that BCIT is unique in nature. (Click photo for more Info)
Work
For many people, the following seems evident: You work to afford school and you go to school to work. Although it may be tough working and attending a full time program, it provides an individual with the opportunity to immediately put into practice what they've learned in school to work and visa versa. (Click Photo for more Info)
Play
Busy individuals always run the risk not allocating time for themselves. A cool way to ensure you are keeping yourself grounded and adventurous is by making a Bucket List or a list of things you want to do/experience before you die. (Click photo for more info on my bucket list)