Benefits of Membership

REASONS TO JOIN CPI: A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Build Your Career                                                            

 Which would you rather do:    

Spend your Life in a job, getting a small raise each year and hoping you won’t get laid off?

Or build a career that moves you up the corporate ladder and gives you a  higher income?

If you want the latter, then you need to belong to Credit professional International &  Here’s why:

LIST OF ASSOCIATION BENEFITS                                       

• Demonstrates that you are interested in a career not just a job.
• Offers opportunities to be mentored and to be a mentor. Both roles will benefit your career.
• Provides volunteer opportunities, related to your field, that demonstrate your concern and willingness to give back to your community.
• Helps you develop leadership skills by spearheading community volunteer projects and by holding office within the association.
• Helps you to develop public speaking skills.
• Helps you develop your interpersonal relations skills by working with people of different ages, education, backgrounds and income levels in both your community and your professional association.
• Stimulates your creativity. Sometimes “going by the book” just doesn’t work. Brainstorming solutions to a work problem with association members can lead to an out-of-the-ordinary solution.
• Gives you opportunities to interact with people of all ages in your field. You benefit from the experiences of members and they benefit from your knowledge of your field, technology and today’s workplace.
• Offers opportunities for you to attend or to conduct continuing education programs, either online or face-to-face, for your colleagues. While learning via the Internet is convenient, face-to-face interaction often adds a different dynamic to learning by providing a more relaxing arena for sharing information among colleagues.

Education

• Educational sessions promote personal and professional growth.
• Our membership is made of various persons within the credit industry, which provides a larger scope of credit education topics.
• Credit education presentation tools like “Take Charge of Your Life”.

Networking and Personal Growth

• Networking provides an opportunity to learn how others solve problems.
• National directory gives you contacts all over the country, which can be helpful when state laws vary.
• Help with skip tracing.
• Personal growth: you grow stronger and smarter with every office you take.

Professional Opportunities

• Officer positions illuminate how organizations are run; this association requires teamwork similar to corporations.
• Contacts can provide job leads all over the country.

National Association

• Think of International as the hub and the locals as the spokes in the wheels.
• Getting answers: small group has less information, a large group has more information.
• Different regions have hot topics, so we can bring global information to local associations.
• Mentoring from experienced officers who visit locals.

The Advantages and Benefits of being a member of District, State, and International:

 The benefits we enjoy at the local level are due to the work being done on the District and International levels.