{"id":5447,"date":"2013-01-11T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2013-01-14T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:59:05","slug":"deca-club-means-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/01\/11\/deca-club-means-business\/","title":{"rendered":"DECA club means business"},"content":{"rendered":"

A business club at Camosun Collge is giving students real-life experience in the business world.<\/p>\n

DECA is aimed at developing students\u2019 professionalism and leadership skills through networking, volunteer work, and competitions. The experience gives members opportunity in the world of business to give them an edge in the competitive field.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Giesbrecht, an accounting student who has been a part of DECA for three years and now serves on the board, says the purpose of DECA is \u201cto develop our members into better leaders and business professionals, and also to give back to our community at Camosun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College\u2019s DECA business club is larger than it\u2019s ever been.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camosun\u2019s DECA chapter is the only one in BC and has 25 members, the largest it has ever been. Members of the group go to conferences and participate in case competitions against other DECA groups in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a DECA member doesn\u2019t really require anything. Our fundraising events are usually once a month, but it doesn\u2019t really take much effort,\u201d says Giesbrecht. \u201cThe rewards are so good because employers see you\u2019re a part of a group, and you\u2019re going to different leadership conferences, and you\u2019re really successful and you\u2019re winning competitions. It sets you apart from other applicants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua Hoetzel has gotten everything he had hoped from DECA since he first joined two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined it to meet people in the business community,\u201d says Hoetzel, an accounting student at Camosun. \u201cIt\u2019s been inspiring. Every time I go to a DECA meeting and hang out with them it\u2019s like I work harder in school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoeztel says there are many benefits from the real-world experience DECA provides, as well as the networking.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of competitions, it\u2019s a lot of out-of-school experience in the business world. Basically, meeting a lot of interesting people. I still keep in contact with many of them,\u201d says Hoeztel. \u201cThere are no actual requirements. It\u2019s what you put in, you get out. I put in a lot and I get out a lot more than what I put in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another goal of DECA is to benefit the larger Camosun community, something Giesbrecht admits they have not done enough of this year. But the club plans to do that this year by using their business skills to help students with their personal financial planning later on this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we haven\u2019t really done our community service yet, we\u2019re really going to work on that for next semester and really give back to the community more by helping people, working through their\u0118financial literacy and that sort of thing,\u201d she says. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re business students and we\u2019re good at budgeting and planning for the future. So we really want to help people that way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A business club at Camosun Collge is giving students real-life experience in the business world. DECA is aimed at developing students\u2019 professionalism and leadership skills through networking, volunteer work, and competitions. The experience gives members opportunity in the world of business to give them an edge in the competitive field. Jasmine Giesbrecht, an accounting student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-9-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}