LCM Presentation
First feedbacks showed us something we knew from the beginning: This entry is too long. We know that, but in order to be complete, it had to be long. But we decided to put in a short version also:With Career Days, everything is well... for further information, you have to read the text below.
This post is destined to those people, who weren't able come to the LCM last wednesday. And for those people who still doubt that collaboration is cool.
A little summary of the presentation done by Bilal last wednesday:
For AIESEC, Career Days is primarily a tool for marketing, to get visibility in the economic world and the press and to provide a leadership experience for the OC. After this definition, Career Days is not a core product of AIESEC.
This year we are collaborating with UniEmploi, an organization that is part of Etudiant+ (the university's structure that is supposed to help the students). In the years before, they used to do a forum on their own with a lot of workshops and a lot of companies. But they lacked the visibility we had. So this year we decided to join forces and get the double out of it (principle of every merger... we talking economics here). The good thing is, we don't have to fire anybody... (well, not that much economics, then...)
Of course, new situations aren't always easy and even less comfortable, so we heavily discussed the problems arising from such a collaboration:
- We might lose visibility during the event and before
- We might lose the brand Career Days
- We might lose income
- We might lose leadership experience and organizing experience
These concerns are very serious, but we think to have figured out a way to avoid these problems being realised.
Loss of visibility: Because of the collaboration with UniEmploi, we will have two press conferences in which we will present also Aiesec. Additional to that, UniEmploi will distribute Flyers in all the faculties of the University of Geneva, Flyers with the logo of AIESEC on it too. This might get us a very interesting diversification of LC members. All in all, even if we have to share visibility with UniEmploi during the event, the visibility before the event is huge. So we are actually gaining visibility.
Losing the brand: We negociated with UniEmploi heavy about this. We explained to them, that we can't just be their junior partner. After we got to know each other a little bit, they accepted this fact. So we are actually on the same level. AIESEC also improves in terms of credibility, because we can profite of the good name of UniEmploi by the smaller companies in Geneva. And the event with the stands will be called Career Days. So we keep our brand also for the for the future.
Loss of income: This year's Career Days will be a record setting one in terms of companies and NGOs. It will be an enormous number. And this of course will also affect the income. On top of that, we negotiated a fixed amount, that ensures AIESEC Geneva's basic expenses.
Loss of leadership: This point was very quickly avoided. We are collaborating with professionals and a partner organization. This means we have to adjust all of our decisions with them. This is all new for an AIESEC Project of this size. So, in our opinion, leadership experience has actually increased due to the collaboration.
Besides of improving by collaborating, we also improve the only AIESEC part of the project. As an example, we are getting a new improved website by the end of the year.
Maybe you are right: It is not perfect. But we think it is the best solution and if you think about it, well, you will agree that we have also enormous advantages to take out of this.
So, we hope to have convinced everybody on this subject, if not, please write us with the questions that torture your minds on kaetze@ge.aiesec.ch We are always looking forward to new inputs.
Well, so long...
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