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AIESEC Curtin Internal newsletter issue 8TRANSCRIPT
AIESEC
Curtin
Issue No. 8
4th Sept, 2012
Distributed by
AIESEC Curtin
Marketing and Communication Portfolio
For any questions, feedbacks and
suggestions, please contact
AIESEC Curtin LCP Election candidates
AIESEC Curtin LCP Election 2013
Portfolio updates
ICX interview
Upcoming events and important notices
AIESEC Curtin LCP Election 2013
On 13th August, 2012, we had the
AIESEC Curtin LCP Election 2012.
The four candidates were:
Ramsey, Krunal, Ivan and Chad
Both AIESEC Curtin and UWA
members were there for voting.
We are very happy to see all members
contributed a lot for question and
answer section.
After a few hours of single and group
discussion time, finally we came to the
voting time.
And Finally Ivan became the LCP
2013!
AIESEC Curtin LCP Election 2013 con’t
Hey AIESEC-ers,
First off, I would like to congratulate all the LCP Candidates for having the courage and determination to step up
and run for the role. Each and every one of us had brilliant ideas and vision on how AIESEC Curtin was going to be
like in 2013. I had learnt so much from every one of you and I congratulate you guys for stepping up. No matter the
results, I am positive that we will still commit ourselves 100% to the goals and vision of our beloved LC.
It has been a wonderful journey leading up to the elections and the best part of it is that the real journey for me has
just only started. To me, the days leading up to the election were where I learned a lot about myself and how my
ideas and talent could be utilized in helping AIESEC Curtin to be more awesome next year.
Thank you to everyone that voted for me during the elections. At the time when the bucket of water was being
poured on me, I was seriously at a loss of words. But I’m glad I am able to take this opportunity to say a very big
thank you to everyone. I promise that I will use these next couple of years to transform myself into “MR. LCP”. So
look out people!
Lastly, I would like to take this time to tell everyone to reach out for their dreams and goals. Opportunities come but
only one in our lifetime and if it is presented right in front of us, we should reach out with all our might and grab it
with all our heart.
Warmest Love,
Ivan Grizzly Tang
Portfolio update – BD, Finance
Finance
It is amazing how our budgeted and realised cash at bank for August match perfectly ie. there is no variance.
Good job to OGX for raising revenue through EP and controlling costs for MRB.
However, there is a variance for money in reserve. We didn't manage build reserve for financial sustainability purposes due to the gap in OGX raises and BD raise.
Hence September we need to work smarter and harder to ensure mistakes does not repeat.
Business Development
A networking event themed “Experience International Talent in the Workforce" will be held on the 20th September to engaged university management and Small Medium Enterprise for intern raising purpose.
BD is expecting 15 SME in the event and follow up meeting with all attendees.
BD current strategy would be presenting in business networking events to build networks and lead sales meeting
Portfolio update – TM Hi guys,
So I hoped that you enjoyed the workshop and the regional bonding event in the past two weeks. As usual, TM
Development & Engagement team had tried their best to organize both Learning & Leisure activities to enhance the
AIESEC experience of you, the members.
On 24th August, we had our first workshop in the triplet series "AIESEC career-orientation" with the theme of
"How to utilize AIESEC experiences in employment". The speaker was Susan Surgener, career consultant from
Curtin Career Centre. She had provided some very useful hindsight of both technical skills like preparing our
resume, dealing with interviewing questions; and also was able to ask us questions to self-reflect on our strengths
and weaknesses. Generally, the feedback given after the workshop was positive, only that we hope more
people would have come to the event. :(
On 31st August, we had coordinated with TM from UWA to organize a massive Regional bonding night. We
started off with dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant then head to Utopia for a fun tireless karaoke session. It turns out
that all Aiesecers possess a hidden singing talent and karaoke is everyone's favourite activity. The attendance was
surprisingly high and we had a wonderful night to chill out and catch up with our regional partners. I would like to
use this opportunity to publicly applause Mark Sara for putting a lot of effort into this to make this event extremely
successful.
Thank you to whoever coming to these events as your attendance meant a lot to us - the organizers, so that we
understand that our effort and hard work are not wasted. On September, there will be 2 other workshops from
the Career-Orientation series with the purpose to further develop your knowledge and prepare for your
career after AIESEC or university. We are making sure the topics are relevant and unique, one of which you can
expect to be "Skills that you are not taught at university" or "How to start your business from the scratch". The
speakers are successful business people, so you can judge the reliability of their advice. Therefore, I do expect that
most of you will turn up for the events. After all, they are FREE and we are doing this BECAUSE OF YOU.
On the other side of the coin, Tracking & Development team in TM has been finalizing all the coffee chats with
individual members, in order to help you with clear goal and expectation setting within AIESEC. We are in progress
of compiling them all and making a full review of the current LC membership situation in LCM next week (12/9). So
watch out for that, it will be very informative and interesting ;)
As well, September sees another quarter has gone, and TM is responsible for handing in the NTR (National
Talent Review) and SONA to the MC - AIESEC Australia. They are basically reports about Membership that we
need to update quarterly to the MC to get them updated and keeping tracked. If you haven't filled out the NTR form,
please find it under the link below:
https://podio.com/webforms/2019628/138204
All LCs are required to submit this NTR document by 9/9/2012 otherwise we might be downgraded for late
submission. Hence it's compulsory for every member in the LC to submit them in on time.
Until next time,
TM, Bondage. TM, teach me.
Portfolio update – UR UR
We are officially approved by MC to run this project on campus SLAP OCP and OC are working really hard to market and promote this project We have 14 applications at the moment and we are targeting 50 students to
study Spanish. We hope every member of AIESEC Curtin can join us in SLAP; Also please do
spread the words on learning a second languages on Spanish I challenge every member to enroll in SLAP and bring one friend for SLAP $15 per week for 7 weeks ($105) for non-AIESEC members; $10 per week
for 7 weeks ($70) for AIESEC members
Networking Event
20 September 2012. 5pm. Engineering Pavilion Combined with BD Aims to create awareness and run business to business activities to externals on
campus Invitation has already sent out. We are waiting for reply. Expect 15 guests from University to attend KPI: 1 TN raise from this event
SLAP Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SLAP-at-Curtin/433868763331101
SLAP Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/a/aiesec.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFBSX1B
pakMzR0kxUzVKTFQ4eFpoZEE6MQ#gid=0
Portfolio update – OGX
It’s been a slow week for OGX due to the semester break, but even so, the MRB
organized by Abraham managed to pass 4 EPs last Saturday thanks to Jenish and Dong
for being the MRB panels. With the passes from last week, we are looking to have 15 EP
RAISES by the end of this week, while we are making good progress, we still have a bit
more to go for the next 3 months.
An EP appreciation dinner was also organized during the semester break to thank the
EPs for their support throughout our recruitment and exchange processes. Despite with
only 3 EPs attending, we did have a good time over dinner.
With September coming along, it is a crucial time for OGX as it marked the beginning of
the MATCHing period, now that the TNs are gradually being uploaded onto the
myaiesec.net database system. And we are aiming to Match 15 EPs by the 30th
September 2012.
We have also began organizing our regional WA Outgoing Preparation Seminar by
having a collaboration between the UWA OGX portfolios, with Ajola working with Edwin
from UWA to organize this event that will occur on the 13th
and 27th
October.
Date-to-Remember: 28th
September 2012 (Application deadline!)
ICX interview – with Krunal Dangar
In last semester, BD had raised the ICX contract which was the first time for AIESEC Curtin in
2012. It’s a very important step to get the LC a membership status. I am very happy to interview
on of the BD members at that time: Krunal Dangar, to tell us more about the process and also
the current Sales Bulitz. (R:Ricky, K:Krunal)
1. R: “How did you and your team work together towards the contract at that time?”
K: “To be honest with you, it was all alumni referral that started it. Minh Dang was kind
enough to introduce AIESEC at his past workplace and I happened to be lucky enough to
find the organization’s needs. Happens to be, we were able to find a good fit in terms of
organization’s project and budget. But teamwork did come into picture once we started
working towards matching the internship. I am really happy that Michael Haynes and
Vivienne Lee are both doing a fantastic job. “
2. R: “Did you face any difficulties at that time? How did you overcome that?”
K: “The biggest difficulty in ICX has always been overcoming rejections. You come to a point
where you start thinking this, is just never going to happen. But what is important is, you treat
each rejection freshly, each lead as a fresh beginning, each sales meeting as a game
changer. I realized after what seemed like million rejections, that I was getting closer to
signing my first IRQ. “
“But I guess, what was a even bigger problem was pressure. The constant pressure of us
being able to raise interns in order to get the LC a membership status. Pressure is not good. I
remember it was at NLDS where I wrote a letter to myself promising a raise. I had a month to
get it and there were no strong leads on hand. So, you I guess you can imagine how happy I
must have felt when we were able to get it 2 weeks before the conference, where the big
decision was awaited. Bridget, then MCVPTM, handed me the letter at the conference and I
was overwhelmed reading what i had promised myself. “
3. R: “How did you motivate yourself and your team to achieve the goal at that time?”
K: “I personally motivated myself by understanding the responsibility that I had and how important
this little achievement was. Moreover, it was the challenge that no one I knew from AIESEC Curtin
had been able to achieve it. The team, from what I understand, was also really into the sales
culture and believed in the portfolio and its importance. This is what motivated them to perform at
their level.”
ICX interview – with Krunal Dangar con’t
4. R:”AIESEC Sales Blitz is on now, with the success contract in last
semester, how will you perform better this time?”
K: “It is actually becoming harder this Sales blitz to perform. With Uni
and an almost full time job, knowing that BD requires you to actually be
out there. I, however, have set a personal goal of one more ICX Raise
by the end of this term. I think that motivates me currently. Talking
about current sales blitz, lessons from the past always help. Moreover,
it is all about working efficiently, segregating your leads and holding
effective sales meetings is something I am focusing upon. “
5. R: Did you develop any skills during the sales blitz?
K: I think almost any BD activity you pick up will up skill you some way or the other. Sales blitz is
however, a very great platform to actually out things into practice. Having all that sales knowledge
isn't power, but implementing them and getting targets achieved in tight timeframe is. The best skill
that Sales blitz can develop is working efficiently. You do not have time to revise lessons, you do
not have time to try different things, you can only do what works because the clock is ticking and
the points are constantly being counted. Every second we spend doing something else, other LCs
are busy scoring points.
Again I would like to thank you Krunal for doing the interview with me. I would like other LC
member to understand more about the BD members and also learn more about other portfolios.
Upcoming events and important notices
Upcoming Events
1. On 8th September 2012(Saturday), we will have the AIESEC WA 2013
State Manager Elections. It will be held in Curtin University. Every
member in the LC will have their right to vote. It will be YOUR choice.
So please come if possible.
Plenary Room: 408.2038
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Starting 3PM SHARP
Important notice:
Plenary will close at 3pm SHARP. No people are allowed to enter or
leave later for respectful reasons. Also no people are allowed to leave
the election till the end. Therefore please plan your timetable before
the election.
2. On 12th September, 2012 (Wednesday), we will have our next Go
Global Information Session. Volunteers are wanted at all time. We had
such successful ones before and we hope it will become better!
Date: 5th September, 2012
Time: 12pm – 2pm
Location: 201.309
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/405205956207032/
3. Start your business from nothing Workshop
Director of Jungle Body, Tara Franzinelli will come and present to
AIESEC members about starting your own business. If you want to
know more about start your career by yourself, feel free to come to this
workshop.
Date: 17 September, 2012
Time: 3pm-4:30pm
Dress code: smart casual
Location TBA
Upcoming events and important notices (con’t)
Upcoming Events
4. UR and BD combined networking event:
Date: 20 September, 2012
Time: Start at 5pm
Location: Curtin Engineering Pavilion
5. Second Language Acquisition Program(SLAP)
SLAP is a project organized by AIESEC Curtin over summer 2012. It
is a program that involves the teaching of a foreign language and
culture by a native speaking intern.
This program Curtin is teaching Spanish in coming summer. It will
be from 5th November to 21th December. Registration is opened now
so feel free to sign up if you would like to learn the Spanish language
and the culture.
Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SLAP-at-Curtin/433868763331101
Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/a/aiesec.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF
BSX1BpakMzR0kxUzVKTFQ4eFpoZEE6MQ#gid=0