AIESEC preparation booklet

Table of content
About AIESEC
Who we are AIESECs scope AIESEC Vision AIESECs approach Our values
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Short history AIESEC today

AIESEC in numbers AIESEC in the world AIESEC Structure AIESEC Experience What is the AIESEC experience Stages of the AIESEC experience

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AIESEC tomorrow AIESEC Norway

AIESEC acronyms Competencies of AIESEC members

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Welcome to AIESEC
You are now involved with the biggest youth driven organization in the world!

About AIESEC
This is a short description of the global organization

Who we are
AIESEC has 60 years of experience in developing high-potential youth into globally minded responsible leaders. Present in over 110 countries and territories and with over 60,000 members,

AIESEC is the world's largest youth-run organization.

Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to participate in international internships, experience leadership and participate in a global learning environment. What makes AIESEC unique is the youth driven impactful experience that it offers to its members. AIESEC is run by young people for young people, enabling a strong experience to all its stakeholders.

AIESECs Scope
AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent, notfor-profit organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education. Our members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, national, ethnic or social origin.

AIESECs Vision

Peace and fulfillment of humankind's potential

AIESECs Approach
AIESEC members live an integrated development experience. This involves leadership opportunities, international internships and interacting with a global network to support their development.

Our values
Activating Leadership
We lead by example and inspire leadership through our activities. We take full responsibility for developing the youth leadership potential of our members.

Demonstrating Integrity
We are consistent and transparent in our decisions and actions. We fulfil our commitments and conduct ourselves in a way that is true to our ideals

Acting Sustainably
We act in a way that is sustainable for our organization and society. Our decisions take into account the needs of future generations

Striving for Excellence

We aim to deliver the highest quality performance in everything we do. Through creativity and innovation we seek to continuously improve

Living Diversity
We seek to learn from the different ways of life and opinions represented in our multicultural environment. We respect and actively encourage the contribution of every individual

Enjoying Participation
We create a dynamic environment created by active and enthusiastic participation of individuals. We enjoy being involved in AIESEC.

AIESEC short history

The ambition of bridging people and cultures across borders began even before the Second World War. This ambition for and by youth, finally took root in the foundation of AIESE, in 1946 (Prague). Because of external challenges, reality, it was re-founded later in 1948 in Sweden, and that is where the story we know of AIESEC typically begins. In this first year 89 exchanges took place, mostly in the form of study tours with the simple and important aim of promoting friendly relations between members. In our first twenty years, the early ages, we grew consistently in self-awareness (mission to also develop skills of young people), organization (AIESEC International formed), and impact (900% growth in exchange, expansion from one to six 6 continents!) In the beginning of the 1970s, the world experienced global economic crises. AIESEC was affected and this in combination with the embellishment of minimum criteria when it comes to the quality of our exchanges caused the first drop in exchange since AIESEC was founded. Externally, companies doubled managerial staffing and at universities, one could study topics such as marketing and sales and human resources, leading to an increased focus on management and how we educate our membership. After years of focus on exchange, seminars, and study tours, in 1976, global theme programs emerged and these came to impact AIESEC activities for years to come. Even though our activities changed, our identity kept the same throughout the decade. With a tremendous growth in economy and population, AIESEC experienced continuous growth in the number of exchange and the highest number of exchange in history in the 80s. AIESEC starts to have a year round exchange program in order to better respond to companies needs. AIESEC continues to expand into countries in every continent, in particular Africa in this decade. With more member countries across the world, AIESEC is also looking at increasing its capacity financially and technologically, including bringing technology into office and into the exchange process. Moving from a strict managerial approach, AIESEC becomes more responsive to the external environment by working on International Theme, with focus on economy and business. Activities include exchangerelated projects, seminars and conferences, plus follow up publications based on the International Theme. The 90s is a decade of rediscovery for AIESEC. In a world where global inclusiveness, democratization and social topics were on the table, AIESEC went from sporadic attempts to make a direct impact on society to understand the effectiveness of developing individuals. The transformation process was challenging: while the amount of local activities increased our ability to capitalize in our global nature decline. AIESEC saw the highest drop of exchanges and also failed to implement an information system aiming to connect our network. After the decision to move back from projects to exchange focus at the end of the 90s, we lost many partners and members as they no longer saw the relevance of AIESEC for them. The AIESEC 2005 vision was developed, but goals and framework thereof did not follow. The AIESEC Experience concept was released in 2001, but focused effort on ensuring the consciousness of members development thereof took some years to take place. After the division of AIESEC into sub-systems in 2003, the professionalism of the organization increased, with the Growth Network structure and launch of the brand promise. In 2005 we formed the vision of AIESEC 2010, supporting this with planning and review systems soon after. In 2007 AIESEC is present in 100 countries/territories. Today, the drive to realize the 2010 goals is prevalent; personal development through leadership opportunities, international experience and participation in our global learning environment. Will we achieve our vision for 2010? Only time will tell!

AIESEC today
AIESEC in numbers
63 years of experience 60,000 members worldwide present in 2,100 universities 107 countries and territories 4,000 partners we facilitate over 16,000 exchanges we offer 20,000 leadership roles we organize 470 conferences each year 945,000 Alumni

AIESEC in the world

AIESEC the structure of the global network

AIESEC Experience What is the AIESEC Experience?

The AIESEC experience is a common path

for personal and professional development for each members of AIESEC. By living this experience members gain needed knowledge, train skills, build attitudes in order to become leaders that have a positive impact in society.

What are the stages of the AIESEC Experience?

Engagement with AIESEC Experiential Leadership Development

Team member programme

It is one of the most crucial ways in which you can start on your path towards leadership development. In this phase you will be introduced to a practical team experience, gain access to a global network and engage in practical hard skills development

Team Leader Programme

This experience will support your personal and professional development through the concept of team building and management. You get to experience of directing other members and guiding them in their work, thus becoming a crucial part of their development.

Global Community Development Programme

International internships are the most intense learning experience we offer and links together our global network. This program encompasses cross-cultural positive impact through entrepreneurial projects that lead to self development and skill enhancement of the member

Global Internship Programme

This program offers internships that contribute to the professional development of a member and assist them to specialize in a certain field of work. They are normally long term in nature and involve working on diverse business projects and organizations.

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AIESEC tomorrow AIESEC 2015

What do we want to accomplish till 2015?

About AIESEC Norway

AIESEC Norway is one of the

founding countries of AIESEC, together with Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the
Netherlands, and Sweden.

Back in 1948, the students from these 7 countries felt the need for a change in the world they were living in.

The European students were lacking the practical business experience necessary for the rebuilding of their devastated countries. And just as important, the students then believed that they were charged with a responsibility to increase international understanding and cooperation. After years without success, the students of Europe hoped to create international friendships once again. And from this need of change AIESEC was born in 1948, in Stockholm, Sweden.

AIESEC Norway today

Today, after 63 years, AIESEC Norway is experiencing a rapid growth and expansion. Our organization is currently present in 3 major cities of Norway: Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim. Our 4 Local Committees, AIESEC UIO, AIESEC BI, AIESEC Trondheim and AIESEC NHH, are lead by 20 young students. Each year we provide qualitative experiences for our members and for the students of Norway through our leadership and exchange programs. By developing and running exchange related projects, our members enable the young people of Norway to develop their skills and also have a positive impact in the society. In the same time, we are offering the companies of Norway the opportunity to develop their businesses by receiving high qualitative interns from all over the world. Our exchange program changed over 100 lives of young people in Norway and all around the world in 2010 and this year our ambition is to increase our impact and deliver more than 300 exchange opportunities.

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Our departments Finance

Why is FINANCE so important? Finance as a strategic area in AIESEC is underestimated. There have been a lot of discussions on how finance and financial management are linked with AIESEC experience. The question is: Are we able to provide these opportunities to live this experience without cash flows being involved? Can we act sustainably without funds needed for further development? Finance area in AIESEC, is the one managing all the incomes and expenses, as well as the balance between them. VP F and Finance team should play an important role when it comes to deciding the LCs goals, tracking the goals and investments. The ideal state of finance area in an LC its when finances help you achieve your goals, and your financial sustainability reflects your results.

Ensuring Financial Sustenability

Coordinate financial decission

Grants management

Legal representative

FINANCE ROLE

There are two main processes in the finance area:

Financial management processes

Grants (Funds) management processes

ICX Non-Corporate
What is ICXnc and what do we do? The incoming exchange area we are creating and selling internships in Norway so that international students have the opportunity to come to Norway to work in different projects. In ICX the non-corporate areas focus is within volunteering projects and our partners are NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and other organizations and institutions.

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In ICXnc our activities consists of working towards the result of being able to offer international students to come to Norway to volunteer. We do this in two main ways: The first one consists of selling internship-packages to Norwegian NGOs and organization where they receive international students to volunteer for them. These students are recruited from other AIESEC countries. Our task is then to ensure financial sustainability through selling our product to sponsors in order to cover the expenses for these internships. Other tasks in such a project consist of interviewing and selecting the best students for our projects and organizations. Lastly we are responsible for the reception of these interns, making sure that they are living a high-quality experience and enjoying their exchange. We also work with another type of project which in many ways is similar to the one above. The difference here is that the local committee within AIESEC Norway is responsible for creating the project in which the interns will come and work. This means that we are cooperating with other organizations and institutions but that we (AIESEC) is the NGO that is responsible for the working tasks that the interns have while working in the project. In this way we are creating the project from beginning to end and we are also responsible for all the activities and management necessary for a project to be realized.

What will you gain? Working in the ICXnc area will give you experience within team work, how to build and conduct a project, you will come in contact with NGOs and other organizations, give international students the opportunity come to Norway and ultimately the Norwegian society will be exposed for projects and people aiming to give positive impact and address important issues within our society

ICX Corporate
What is ICX C? Incoming Exchange Corporate (ICX C) is a functional area in AIESEC that is responsible for facilitating internships in Norwegian companies for students and recent graduates from abroad. Incoming Exchange Corporate (ICX C) process includes selling internships to companies, finding suitable candidates for the internships, and reception of the trainees. ICX Corporate detailed process 1. Internal & external market analysis - First you learn about the product we offer to the Norwegian companies, analyze the candidate supply in our internal market, as well as do research on the Norwegian corporate sector. Selling process - Period when you are contacting companies in order to raise traineeships, go to sales meetings and follow up. Matching process - After you have raised a traineeship and agreed on a profile of the trainee, you are searching for suitable candidates in our international database, presenting them to the company and assist with the selection of right candidate. Trainee reception - When the company has selected a trainee you are also responsible for all the legal procedures connected to the starting of the traineeship (visa/work permit application, tax card, personal number, etc.) as well as for finding accommodation and social integration.

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Outgoing Exchange (OGX)

What do we do? We facilitate internships abroad for Norwegian students and recent graduates Outgoing Exchange (OGX) is one of the two departments in AIESEC that deal directly with exchange: international internships. OGX is the function responsible for everything related to sending students and recent graduates abroad for internships and volunteer projects. This includes recruiting people for the program, finding suitable internships for the candidates, preparing participants for their international experience, being the contact person while they are abroad and evaluation after the experience. OGX members are the ones who facilitates and make sure that Norwegian students get the possibility to go on an international internship with AIESEC. Throughout the whole internship process, OGX members support the Exchange Participants (EPs) in order for them to have as qualitative and impactful experiences as possible! How do we do it? OGX process step-by-step

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AIESEC Norway structure

Our partners
Our National Groups of Partners is comprised of the following companies and organizations:

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Our projects

Active Summer
The Active Summer project is a project developed by AIESEC aimed to give positive impact in the Norwegian society. AIESEC Norway and Hero Norge are arranging summer camps across the country with activities for the youth and children connected to Hero Norge's asylum centers.

Winter Education Project

The Winter Education project is a project developed to increase cultural awareness amongst young Norwegian student and therefore to give a positive impact and an educated youth. The projects theme is an important one and AIESEC Norway wants to contribute with increased education and awareness for better understanding and communication among young people today. We are arranging several workshops around schools in Norway with the focus on presenting meaningful knowledge and experiences to encourage and motivate young Norwegians to be more open to and have a better understanding of other cultures.

Summer Abroad
The aim of the project is to offer a meaningful summer abroad for Norwegian students. Candidates for the program are given the possibility to work voluntarily on local development issues in China, Indonesia, Kenya and Egypt. The project entails recruitment of participants to the exchange program, and in collaboration with AIESEC in other countries, facilitates a qualitative volunteer experience for the students.

Choose 2
The aim of this project is to provide a more complete international experience for Norwegian students who choose to go on academic exchange through their university. AIESEC provides the students with volunteer opportunities in the countries they will study in order for them to gain a local network and a practical work experience in addition to their academic exchange.

Your impact, Africa

In collaboration with Fredskorpset, AIESEC organizes a 5 month volunteer program to Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda. The aim of the project is to give Norwegian students a possibility for personal development and growth through working on local development issues in a different country. In addition, AIESEC also organizes shorter volunteer projects for candidates who are not chosen to go through the Fredskorpset cooperation

Business Incubator
The project is run in cooperation with incubators, hubs, innovation centers and organizations. The goal is to arrange short term internships in startup companies where interns will work on product development or marketing & sales.

IT talent
The idea of the project is to organize IT internships in Norwegian companies for students and recent graduates from Central Europe, the region with rapidly growing IT sector and number of talented IT specialists.

UpGrade
The aim of this project is to provide Norwegian graduates with a professional experience abroad. AIESEC offers opportunities for internships in both Europe and Asia. The project is about recruiting participants to the program, preparing them for the experience and facilitates a qualitative professional experience abroad.

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AIESEC Acronyms

AIESEC @ @XP

Association International dEtudiants Scientifique, Economique et Commercial AIESEC AIESEC Experience

CEED EB ICX OGX TM LC LCP LC VP MC MCP MCVP BoA CR OC OCP

Cultural Envoy for Exchange Development Summer Placements for AIESEC members Executive Board of the LC President and Vice Presidents InComing eXchange International students/graduates coming to work in the UK OutGoing exchange students from UK universities go work abroad in the AIESEC network Talent Management the team that ensures the members are having a powerful experience Local Committee thats all the people in AIESEC at City University Local Committee President overall responsible for running of the LC Local Committee Vice President Member Committee the national team based near Old Street Member Committee President Member Committee Vice president Board of Advisors - The group of external advisors that provides advice and holds AIESEC accountable to its plans and activities Corporate Relations - The exchange function that is responsible for selling and/or raising internships and other AIESEC products Organising Committee responsible for organising conferences (apart from the content) Organising Committee President

EP TN AN OPS P-BOX

- Exchange Participant Traineeship Nomination a job that has been raised with a company by the BD team Acceptance Note - The document signed for the EP when accepts a TN or vice versa Out going preparation seminar- The one weekend event made in Colombia to prepare the EP for the exchange Project Based on Exchange - A project made up of both learning and exchange, themed around a particular issue (it is not a P-BOX until exchange has taken place) AIESEC International The international coordinating body of AIESEC, based in Rotterdam President of AIESEC International AIESEC International Vice-President - The person responsible for a specific functional area at the global level Growth Network - A collection of AIESEC countries that are grouped due to their similar external realities and markets Western Europe and North America the Global Network AIESEC Norway is a member of Central and Eastern Europe Asia Pacific Iberoamerica Growth network Middle East & North Africa

AI PAI AIVP

GN WENA CEE AP IGN MENA

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AIESEC Global Competency Model

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