Week 7 Ceis 100 Paper

Week 7 Course Project

How will professional organizations play a role in your professional career?

Emily Wright

Professor Koonjbearry

August 24, 2014

How will professional organizations play a role in your professional career?

Professional organizations provide networking between professionals in their field. They grant professional’s access to different opinions and points of view on subjects, some provide resources, and it can help you land new work, clients, or partners. Utilizing the benefits of professional organizations can bring ease and success for many individuals.

Being a member of a professional organization will open members to new ideas and opinions on subject and issues. People think differently and therefore can provide others with a different approach to problems and potentially help to solve them. Organizations like IEEE provide forums for discussions that can be viewed later and help others with the same issues.

As a member professional organizations, depending on which one, a wide range of resources may be available to you for research or entertainment. IEEE for example has a database that houses hundreds of documents, articles, books, etc… This can be beneficial to a professional career because it opens you to new resources that you may not have found available somewhere else. A lot of organizations will create their own magazines and reports themselves.

Professional organizations consist of just that, professionals within specific fields. This can help get your company some extra customers or clients, or help some get new careers. Some employers consider being part of a professional organization a good asset for an employee to have because they know the benefits to being a member.

No matter what reason someone becomes a member of a professional organization, once they do, they are sure to reap the benefits.