"I feel..." Marina
"I feel very good. Or not." Mati
"First time it is good to feel as outsider in LC Tallinn office." Marko
"It's good to have fun." Siret
"I feel nothing." Cristo
"It's good to have a plan." Riina
"At least I feel something." Liise
Today I could not be happier for AIESEC Tallinn!:)
There are Executive Board elections coming up this weekend and quite soon we will know who will lead us during the next term - June 1st 2008 until May 31st 2009. But before we can really proceed with that, there was just one last tiny thing to do - make sure that all members who are brave enough (knowing all that has to be known about AIESEC) will get the chance to become a full member.
There were interviews with tough and tougher questions, but finally the decision about each and every candidate was made.
We had altogether 18 interviews with 16 members.
Out of them 11 are now full members of AIESEC Tallinn.
So congratulations to:
Ingrid Hermet,
Eneli Jõgi,
Valdar Kallasmaa,
Nele Koduvere,
Jelena Koroljova,
Jaan Lainurm,
Andra Mesila,
Ott Niggulis,
Merilin Piik,
Ann Tsurtsumia,
Katrina Utsar
I really want to say big thank you's for the brave ones who had a lot of courage to step up and take a leap forward in their journey - Triin, Liisi, Elina, Erko and Laura - we see a lot of potential in you and hope to see you really soon at the next full member interviews :)
That is all for now - I hope to see all of our members, including freshly selected new full members at the Spring Seminar electing the new Executive Board :)
And don't forget - if you cannot come, write a proxy (if you don't know yet what it is, ask from Siret) and let Siret know who has your proxy.
On behalf of your EB 2007/2008,
la presidenta Riina
Hello eveybody!
AIESEC Tallinn LCP and EB VP candidates 08-09 Questions and Answers (Q&A) round in the special forum is now officially opened. You can ask questions March 1-6 and the candidates have time to answer until March 7.
You can find LCP candidates' applications here:
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10007689
and VP candidates' applications here:
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10007687
Firstly all candidates are to shortly introduce themselves in the forum - who they are (name, current position), what do they expect from the application procedure and whatever else they find necessary to say.
I recommend you to subscribe to the forum and add it to your bookmarks:
http://www.myaiesec.net/content/viewforum.do?contentid=10007718
Good luck everybody and waiting for lot of questions!
Riina
LCP 07-08
(drums please)
I'm truly happy to announce the candidates for the Executive Board of AIESEC Tallinn for the term 2008-2009.
For the LCP position we have two candidates:
Oliver Immato
Liise Valma
For the EB VP positions we have four candidates:
Ott Niggulis
Jaan Lainurm
Merilin Piik
Nele Koduvere
You can find VP candidates' applications here:
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10007687
and LCP candidates' applications here:
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10007689
For all you full members out there - well, you know what to do, I'm sure! ;) Read the applications, look out for more information coming soon and keep yourself up-to-date with all that's necessary!
PS! If you haven't registered to the Spring Seminar yet, you can do it here:
http://www.eformular.com/niggulis/springseminar.html
Good luck to all the candidates!
Cheers,
La presidenta Riina
I felt that previous two posts were sort of incomplete without bringing out what I learned most from these two special events - applying for EB VP and for LCP.
(1) There is never enough time for filling in the application. Especially when it gets just a bit thorough each year and requires more research for knowledge.
(2) There is never enough time for writing the MOST PERFECT speech. Everything just happens so quickly after sending in the application.
(3) There aren't right or wrong answers for the application, in the Questions&Answers round, during VP candidates' interviews. There are just answers which suit AIESEC Tallinn reality more or less.
And if I was to give few recommendations based on these, that would be it:
(1) Look at the application as soon as possible after it comes out. Then you what is waiting ahead and how to divide your time between your responsibilities so that you would have fair amount of time for answering questions.
(2) If you're not so sure what should the speech be like, ask around. There are plenty of members around who have given speeches when applying for EBs and they would be most delighted to chat with you and help you. If you don't know where to start - look up some general information about writing speeches in Google for example. All in all - talk about things you know, if you don't know - find out and make sure you know what you're talking about ;)
(3) Make sure you know how the process is like (what has to be filled in, when is something happening, etc), then it's a whole lot easier to focus on the content and quality!
As I have mentioned before - I would be happy to help you if you have any questions, so feel free to contact me :)
I wish you best of everything on your journey!
Riina Maisa
President of AIESEC Tallinn
2007/2008
Some links:
made a spontaneous speech? in English
being an example? in Estonian
had to come up with a speech? in English
almost done with the speech? in English
coming to an end? in English
Speech tips
If you thought that the second part would be about applying for EB the second time, you are absolutely correct :)
I'm not quite sure anymore when I first started to get ideas that I could apply. I guess somehow it came from seeing how well Siim managed our team. And most likely from the fact that people had high hopes for me. There were a lot of people who tried to convince me that I should apply to become the next LCP**, but I had all my life planned already and LCP year didn't really fit the plan.
I remember so well those conversations with Siim and something he told me once - if I want to get the kind of leadership experience that would help me in the future managing for example my own family, then LCP year would definitely be IT. Ahh, yes, I haven't mentioned yet - my other option was to apply for MC VP, but that wasn't so facinating either, I suppose.
So this time I managed to help a little bit with the application and booklet and felt really good about it. I started to like the idea of applying - especially because I started to find out who were the people who thought of applying in other cities - Kribu and Mari. Ooh, that was nice how we already bonded before we were elected, in Synergy 2007 we saw the real synergy that we could create!
Guess what - I hadn't learned from applying the year before! The application was a little bit shorter in length, but a lot longer in it's content. The questions were harder, more information had to be searched than ever before. And during all this time - I was quite alone with my doubts. I even considered not sending in the application, but thanks to Siki who motivated me so much during these last few hours, I made it!
This time it was also tougher to make the speech. As in previous elections I reminded myself the magic of writing speeches, this time I wanted to take it a step further. So I decided to make sort of "spontaneous speech" :) It took a lot of self searching, finding out what would people want to hear, reading new information from the web, looking for puzzle images at 2am before THE DAY!
The competition was hard, votes divided between us - it really was a close call that I would not be writing this here today from LCP point of view. But I made it and it has been one of the best things that happened with me in AIESEC! And today I couldn't be happier about my decisions so far :)
I hope you have enjoyed these brief stories about my journey when I made these decisions and if you wish to know about it more - feel free to call me, e-mail me, skype me or msn me, I'd be happy to help you with your learning as well ;)
PS! There will also be a sequence for this story in the next post ;)
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*EB = Executive board
**LCP = Local Committee President
Hello there my dearest AIESEC Tallinn members!
Today I wanted to share very personal story of mine with you :) It is about applying for EB, twice.
When I became a member of AIESEC Tallinn, I was quite sure that I just want to meet some cool people and spend few hours per week doing some AIESEC stuff. Okey, so things didn't go quite like that :D I didn't even go to the very first Annual Conference when I was a newie...
Still I started to get some funny ideas about applying for EB after my first really awesome conference - Synergy 2006.
I had a lot of doubts: should I apply? What if someone else applies for the same position and I wont get elected? What if I don't know enough about the field I wanted to work with? What if...?
They were all crushed one way or the other and I applied. So the first really big thing that hit me hard was that there were sooooo many questions in the application. And quite honestly - for most of the questions, I had no idea what the right answer should be. So it took a lot of time to find answers and write them down so that others would understand my points as well.
Writing the speech was another thing that hit me hard. It was in high school when I last had to write and give a speech like that. Somehow I did it, got through from the interview and was selected to the EB 2006/2007.
And what a wonderful year that was!
You can read more about my journey from getting into AIESEC until I was selected to the EB 06/07 in my personal blog (posting is in English).
The end of part 1.
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*EB = Executive board
Helo!
I am very proud to present on behalf of your AIESEC Tallinn EB 2007/2008 team that the candidates' booklet and the application form for applying to the new EB team for the next term are now opened!
Short summary about the application process:
EB 2008/2009 term runs officially from June 1, 2008 – May 31, 2009
If you have any questions, feel free to turn to your EB team :)
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* EB - Executive Board
** LCP - Local Committee President
*** VP - Vice President
**** Q&A - Questions & Answers
We had LC meeting last Wednesday. It was the very first one of this year and we had some interesting conversations there.
Firstly we discussed shortly about LC meetings in general - why are they important? Why is it that usually there aren't so many people attending? How come there were hardly any people from Exchange side? What made those 4 team leaders come to the meeting out of 11 team leaders that we actually have? Some interesting thoughts came up and now the hard work starts to make conclusions from them and really make the meetings more interesting and worth the time.
We also received some information about Annual Conference - what's the status with the organizing? What kind of difficulties have come up and how are they dealing with them? How many people have already registered and so on. A lot of information there as well. Liise also shared with us what is happening from the agenda side.
Some more information about MC elections - the applications are out:
(http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10003713)
and two AIESEC Tallinn EB members have also applied: Marina Vilop, our VP Exchange has applied to become the next MC VP Exchange and Cristo Pajust, our VP ER/PR applying to become the next MC VP ER. You can ask them questions and for that post all your questions here:
(http://myaiesec.net/content/viewforum.do?contentid=10003185)
If you have problems getting into myaiesec.net, let your team leader know immediately!
Just before our guests arrived, there was briefly information about applying to AIESEC Tallinn EB as well. The elections will happen a bit earlier this year - March 7-8 and this year AIESEC Tallinn is organizing the event. We will keep you updated on that topic as some preparations have to be made still.
Last but not least - we had some alumni there telling us their stories: Siim Juks and Jaan Aps. They shared with us funny stories from their time in AIESEC, where and what are they doing now and how being in AIESEC has helped them to get there. As we didn't have much time to chat, they said they'll answer all our questions at Annual Conference - so be there ;)
All in all, I felt quite happy to see all of you who came - I hope you got something out of it and you also had a chance to share your ideas what we could do better for next LC meetings.
Huuh, it's been almost-almost one week that I've been officially la presidenta and it feel quite good already :) Although most of my energy still has gone to my studies because of the exam session, I've had few things on my mind and todo list.
It's always so hard to know exactly what the president is doing because a lot of P's work doesn't really stand out or show out. So I just wanted to share what I did during my first week ;)
Last Friday, my very first official day, I got a message from one of our members that she got a message that her membership in our database has expired. So the very first thing I got to do, was to update all members in our database. Some of them needed to expire, some of them will be around in AIESEC for at least another year, right :D
Also on Friday we had our AIESEC Tallinn picnic which was organised by our cute&cool PD&HR Liise and Siret. They had done really good job ;) Anyways, my task there was to first give a short speech and later fill some different tasks with my EB team. We succeeded quite well, I think :)
Then almost endless e-mails with the new P-Club regarding different issues in AIESEC in Estonia. We're going to have our Team Days during coming weekend and of course many things needed to be cleared out for that as well.
Of course the data in the AIESEC.net Tallinn community needed to be changed as well. We have our EB picture up and also our contact information. First things first right ;)
No way I can do without e-mailing someone - so I've sent many e-mails to my EB as well regarding different topics (recruitment, transition updates, planning, conference opportunities, etc), now all I have to do is wait for the replies :D
There was also a deep discussion with Marjam, our lovely AIESEC Estonia president, about different important topics such as where AIESEC is heading to, how to change our mindsets, who are we really and how to become the most powerful youth organization in Estonia.
I guess pretty much last, but not least - it was brought to my attention that a lot of people in AIESEC.net Tallinn community had not been approved for their membership status. So, I did that as well, pretty much making a lot of people happy and getting even more e-mails than ever before :)
So, that wraps up my week quite nicely, I'm sure :) There are loads more to come once my exams are over and I don't have to worry about them anymore. Of course there's more transition meetings coming as well (one of them already tomorrow afternoon), but I'm exited and really looking forward to them ;)
And just one more remark before I close this post - watch out, AIESEC Estonia! Tallinn is going to rock your socks off! :D
Hello,
Absolutely, sometimes you just have to shine! Like we did in this Christmas ball organised by Student Union of TUT. It was a nice event, not so well thought-through, but we enjoyed it while being there. Didn't get to dance though.
I just wanted to say that it's really nice to be in a student organisation like AIESEC is, because you get to be in so many places, you get invitation all the time. All you have to do is to show up and shine :) I really encourage you all to take some opportunities that suit you - find the things that make you shine like a shooting star and enjoy every single second of it ;) It'll be worth it, I can bet on that!
-- Riina
