What advice to give your colleagues for tough economic times? Invest in your career development - join the STC!

STC members are the shining stars of the technical communication profession and are dedicated to reaching their highest potential while looking to STC to enhance their careers.

STC's Reach for the Stars Member-Get-a-Member Campaign is a fun way to spark additional interest in STC by sharing the value you receive from your STC membership with your colleagues and encouraging them to join. Numerous prizes (including Apple iPhones, free STC memberships, free web seminars, free entry to the STC Technical Communication Summit in Atlanta, and more) will be awarded to individual members, chapters, and special interest groups (SIGs) who participate in the recruitment effort.

As a geographical community of STC, STC France supports technical communicators and promotes the profession within France (and beyond) with regular networking & training opportunities, a highly-used job board, career development workshops, a professional and well-attended annual conference, and more. STC France members benefit from all these local services, plus all the advantages that come from belonging to the world's largest global professional society for technical communicators.

Reaching out and recruiting a member is easy when you find yourself interacting with colleagues at meetings, online, on the job, or while networking. Simply tell your colleagues how you have benefited from your membership in STC and suggest that they visit www.stc.org/membership to learn more about membership and to join. To help you get started, STC has put together a recruiter's toolkit with plenty of tips and ideas and talking points. You can also download STC's new membership brochure.

The more new members you recruit before the end of the year, the more chance you have to win! Just remember to tell the friend or colleague you recruit to indicate your name and the France Chapter when filling out the application form.

Full rules and regulations for the campaign are available from the STC website. The competition will run through 31 December.

Questions? Contact us at membership@stcfrance.org. You can also refer potential new members to us at this address, and we’ll do the recruiting for you (you’ll still get credit for a successful new membership).