JCI World President Invites AIESEC Members to Join JCI

AIESEC International President welcomes JCI World President.

Today's students are far too conservative and accepting.
-- JCI World President Graham Hanlon

On February 22, JCI World President Graham Hanlon attended the 2008 AIESEC International Presidents meeting in Orhid, Macedonia. He was the first JCI President to do so in many years. AIESEC, as the world's largest student organization that helps students discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society, is a natural source for new JCI members.

A debate during the meeting centered on what the world will be like in 2025 and what students can do now to shape that world. Three candidates for AIESEC President, and representatives from Junior Achievement and the International Association of Agricultural Students (IAAS) joined Hanlon on the panel.

Hanlon told more than 200 young student leaders from 80 countries that today's students were far too conservative and accepting. "I am not asking you to run out onto the street and start throwing eggs, but today's students are far too accepting," he said. "If you in AIESEC, like we in JCI, wish to see change, then you must constantly articulate your views and push for change."

Asked if the environment will still be a major issue in 2025, Hanlon said he sincerely hoped it would not be. "If we are still talking about the environment in 2025 the way we are now, it means we will have failed in our responsibility to solve the environmental and ecological challenges that confront us," he added.

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The student body was keen to know what they could do after graduation to continue to live out the AIESEC philosophy. "Join JCI," Hanlon advised quickly. "As soon as you start your professional career, you WILL, whether you like it or not, become absorbed into the mainstream, and will soon be consumed by those everyday things that presently do not occupy your mind," he added.

"You'll focus on your job, career, income, pension, property and eventually relationships," said Hanlon. "These are all part of life but the demands they place on people in today's world are so great that many lose that passion and desire they had as students to make a difference. In JCI we keep that desire to make a positive contribution to change."

Students asked panel members what issues would be relevant in the future. "Ethics, particularly in business, is a growing concern for people" said Hanlon. "I think this is evident from the various groups appearing in society, like the Fair Trade for example," he said. "In JCI, we are concerned about ethics. That's why we have partnered with the United Nations Global Compact and have an active Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program."

Partnership Agreement

Prior to the debate, Hanlon held a constructive meeting with AIESEC President Gabriela Albescu and AIESEC Global Networks Manager Emanuel Gaverts. Discussions centered on a new partnership agreement between JCI and AIESEC. Both parties agreed that it could and should become more dynamic as the synergies between the two organizations were not being fully used to benefit both organizations.

Acknowledging that many of their national networks had close cooperation, all felt much more could be achieved. It was agreed that a new cooperation agreement would be entered into in 2008 and strongly promoted within JCI and AIESEC.

After all the formal engagements, Hanlon had the opportunity to participate in the festivities with AIESEC members. He refused to rule out the possibility of becoming a "mature student" some day in the future.

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Spring Seminar 2008

Hey guys!!!!

Here is a bit information about Spring Seminar 2008.

We are waiting member candidates and internship candidates (all you new people :) ) at 10.30 in TTÜ.

AIESEC members will have more information soon (tonight).

At 23.00 (Saturday) we will all move to the Tudengimaja which is located in Raekoja plats 16. There we will have a party and election results announced.

We will all sleep at our homes, so people from outside Tallinn, who have no place to stay, have to write Elina an e-mail and we will definitely find you a place or there is possibility to stay in Tudengimaja for the night :)

On Sunday internship and member candidates will have their sessions in Tudengimaja. We use public transportation for moving.

We have also changed the fee:

• 100.- for member and internship candidates
• 50.- AIESEC members 50 kr (because they will stay only for 1 day).

If you have already paid, then we will pay you back.

So see you there ;)

 

On behalf of the OC,

Elina Peek

Epilogue

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

Thinking of applying for EB* 08/09? 2/2

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

For all you trainers out there!

For now you can read the news in myaiesec.net where the host country of ITC 2008, Ukraine was announced. But for more information about ITC 2008 stay tuned or search for hints in myaiesec.net :)

Klapid eest! presents: Leading your industry

Event: Leading Your Industry : Market Niche Opportunities
Time: 12.02.08 | 19:00 - 20:15
Place: Tudengimaja, Raekoja plats
Speaker: Justin Fidler (Sona-Systems)
Dimension: Entrepreneurship, Tallinn

Description: Imagine that you are the owner of a starting company and you have to work out a strategy in order to become the leader in your market niche.

If you have ever thought about how to start your own business and become successful, you are most welcome to come and listen owner of a software company in Estonia, Justin Fidler. He will share different success stories of different companies and gives advice how to find and use market niche opportunities. He will let you know how small software company has become world leader in their market.

You can also take part in interactive discussion about different business ideas and analyse their strengths and weaknesses.

As the number of place is limited, please register for the event here:
http://klapideest.aiesec.ee/kalender?evt_id=25003

NB! Event is happening in English and free of charge :)

 

Üritus: Leading Your Industry : Market Niche Opportunities
Aeg: 12.02.08 | 19:00 - 20:15
Koht: Tudengimaja, Raekoja plats
Esineja(d): Justin Fidler (Sona-Systems)
Dimensioon: Ettevõtlikkus, Tallinn

Kirjeldus: Kujuta ette, et oled alustava ettevõtte omanik ning pead välja töötama strateegiat oma turunishi liidriks saamiseks.

Kui oled kunagi mõelnud, kuidas alustada oma äri ja teha seda edukalt, tule ja kuula Eestis tegutseva tarkvarafirma omanikku Justin Fidler’i, kes jagab Sinuga erinevate firmade edulugusid ning annab nõuandeid, kuidas leida ja kasutada turunishi võimalusi. Kuula, kuidas on väiksel tarkvarafirmal õnnestunud saada maailma liidriks oma turunishis.

Samuti saad osaleda erinevate äri ideede interaktiivses diskussionis ning analüüsida nende tugevaid ja nõrku külgi.

Kuna kohtade arv on piiratud, palun registreeru ürituseks!
http://klapideest.aiesec.ee/kalender?evt_id=25003

NB! Üritus on INGLISE KEELES ja kõigile tasuta!