Take a quick look around your office—do you see five or more technical communicators? If so, your company may be interested in STC’s Corporate Value Program!
STC’s Corporate Value Program (CVP) membership level provides companies the ability to register their technical communication employees as a group in the Society, saving money on membership dues and gaining extra benefits as well. Join organizations like Oracle, Wells Fargo, Boeing, CA, Hewlett Packard, Eaton Corporation, MailChimp, Booz Allen Hamilton, and dozens more.
All CVP individual members (i.e., employees) receive full Classic and certification benefits from STC: discounts on education and certification, online subscriptions to Intercom and Technical Communication, a copy of the Salary Database, and discounts on professional development opportunities. And the organization benefits, too, with:
- A copy of STC’s 2014–2015 Salary Database
- 10% off job postings on STC’s Job Bank
- The ability to transfer memberships if an employee leaves the company (e.g., if Joe Smith leaves and is replaced by Jane Doe, you can transfer Joe’s membership to Jane)
- Your corporate logo and link to your site on STC’s CVP page
- Discounts on marketing, advertising, blast emails, and exhibiting at the Summit
- And other publicity opportunities through STC
You also get one free webinar for every five your company purchases, providing extra savings while you train your employees!
The newest benefit for CVP members is STC’s relaunched professional certification program. The STC Certification Commission has re-engineered the program to improve its processes and structure to better serve technical communicators, and members save $245 off the regular certification rate.
“The discounted CVP membership will enable more joining/participation by Oracle writers in general, ” explained Mari Wozny of Oracle when asked about the program. “My particular department will benefit most from the STC reading materials and webinars. ”
And while the minimum number of employees required for a CVP membership is five, the more members you join with, the more you save! Membership dues for five to nine members are just $190, a $40 savings per member over the regular Classic membership rate of $225. Ten or more members? Save $45! Twenty-six or more? It’s now $55 off per member. And if you join with 51 members or more, dues are just $160 each. (Chapters, SIGs, and other á la carte items can always be added.)
If your company doesn’t pay for association memberships, you can still join with a group of coworkers and save. Simply designate one person as the contact person and coordinate one payment through that person. The more people from your company you recruit, the more you save on your own membership as well—and you still get all the extra benefits a CVP membership brings.
STC is happy to speak with your management as well to fully explain the program and how your organization can benefit. With the CVP savings and extra benefits added onto everything the individual Classic members get, the ROI your company receives is tremendous. Wozny stated, “Oracle is committed to driving innovations and improvements across all its organizations. Joining STC is another way to drive awareness of writing trends, etc., along with possible improvements in the technical communication areas within Oracle. ”
Learn the value of the STC Corporate Value Program. For more information, contact STC’s Director of Member and Corporate Engagement Stacey O’Donnell at stacey.odonnell@stc.org.
