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Back to School Special: Educational Assistance Benefits

Justin Held, CEBS

29 Aug 201714 Sep 2017

Back-to-school time is here—It’s not just about yellow buses and brand-new lunch boxes. It’s also a time that many adults start thinking about heading back to school to finish their degree, complete continuing education requirements or attend job-related licensing courses. This is […]

The New CEBS: It’s Here and I’m All In

Rachel Oliver

18 Aug 201718 Aug 2017

August. What? Where has the summer gone? I’m sure you’ll agree that it has flown by and now we are staring squarely at September and the start of all things fall. School for the kids. Packing up the shorts until next year. […]

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The New CEBS Has Arrived

Staff

27 Apr 201730 May 2017

Sometimes, making a change is an easy decision. Flat tire? Change it. Wallpaper hanging in your living room since 1983? It’s time. Change it. Most changes demand much more deliberation. When it came to considering a change for the Certified Employee Benefit […]

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Insights From a Newbie—Annual Benefits Conference

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

31 Mar 201703 Apr 2017

With the announcement of the keynote speakers for the 50th Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference in Montréal, Québec August 20-23, 2017, excitement for the future got me thinking about the past . . . . Less than a week into my new position as […]

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Your Benefits Box of Chocolates

Anne Patterson

14 Feb 2017

Whether or not you’re feeling the love this Valentine’s Day (I’ve hit my head too many times on hanging heart decorations and eaten too much chocolate already), we can celebrate the International Foundation products and services our members love having access to, […]

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Winter is the Perfect Time to CEBS!

Christine Vazquez, CEBS

05 Jan 201730 Jan 2019

Brookfield, Wisconsin, the home of the International Foundation, is a place that truly presents four seasons of weather in all of their contrasting splendor. Colorful fall is out and blustery winter is in. We had our first “polar vortex” subzero temperature plunge […]

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In Search of Benefits Wisdom, Colleagues and Crab Cakes

Chris Vogel, CEBS

03 Aug 2016

When I attended my first Employee Benefits Symposium in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2010—a reward for completing my Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation a few weeks earlier, my only duties were to attend the CEBS conferment ceremony and soak up education […]

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Learn Where You Work: The Value of On-Site Education

Tom DeRoche

07 Jun 201607 Jun 2016

Over the past sixteen years, I have had the good fortune to work with many organizations to bring International Foundation programs to their places of business. We have done this from coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada, across all the […]

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Searching for Your Awesome? Just Add CEBS

Rachel Oliver

01 Jun 201601 Jun 2016

I was a lucky kid, one with a great support system of family and friends who celebrated with me through each success and picked me up and encouraged me through the bumps in the road. If you are like me, you likely […]

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Making the Grade With Educational Assistance Programs

Justin Held, CEBS

03 Mar 201603 Mar 2016

The International Foundation’s recent Educational Assistance Benefits: 2015 Survey Results evaluated the most prevalent types of assistance/tuition reimbursement programs, characteristics of offerings, program requirements and limitations, and strategies and implications. The responses provided a number of key takeaways pertaining to educational assistance offerings. As […]