Career Days Geneva 2008 - L'avenir ne se prévoit pas, il se prépare !

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Is the blog dead????

NO people, everything is fine with our blog… it’s the people behind the blog who neglected our blog a bit… if he had feelings, he probably felt a little bit left behind…

Because:

We were working hard and this progress actually doesn’t show on the blog… two months ago the last update was made… for all the people who think we are still where we were two months ago: You’re wrong!!!

The forum has started. Finally. First two days went very smooth. We still are waiting for the booklet, but hey, not everything can be perfect the first two days…

The first two days we had the Ateliers of CUE and they passed without big trouble and we got good feedback. Thanks to all the people who were helping as assistants. We huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugely appreciate your help and your motivation.

Tomorrow the first of our workshops starts. It will also be very interesting. The Broadening Horizons PboX has worked very hard to put that in place. You should all be there.

Next week also, on Monday, we will have the Workshop of Global Citizen that will be fascinating as well as the Workshop of Ernst & Young. If you’re interested in the Ernst & Young workshop, please write an email to Stefan (stefan(at)ge.aiesec.ch) to subscribe. He still desperately tries to get 20 names on a list in order to make Ernst & Young happy…

We did a outstanding marketing, on company side as well as on student’s side. On company side we got 90 companies to participate in the Forum. And on student’s side we got very good feedback. Our movie department did a superb job with the CD movie and we will publish it on the web as soon as some administrative hurdles are taken…

Other members however have learned that the way from the CUE to UniMail with a box full of Flyers suddenly seems longer than they thought. They took the “box-moving” to a point that they could have put as experience in their CV “demenageuse experimentée” as job experience. But then again, if you’re at the bottom of the Career Days Food Chain, you might as well carry boxes

About the Food Chain… we got new participants in the Career Days Food Chain. They are probably not yet aware of it, but our Genevan Minority desperately seeks to move up to the middle of the nutrition hierarchy by putting others at the bottom. These others are most likely to be our beloved Extended OC consisting of Joan Vozeh for Logistics and Valentine Fargeaud for Student Marketing. Thanks a lot, you probably saved some members from stress disorders and heart attacks due to overworking...

To all the readers that now got scared about all the food chain talk and are supposed to help in the Forum these next days … don’t worry, we will not eat you. It is all the contrary… it will be a good experience for you to see how this big Forum is being organized behind the scenes. All the externals coming and going… all the food that has to be at the right place… all the student’s who don’t know where to go… and all the people coming to the stand, and after all the marketing still ask: Hey, what is this Forum all about?

What else did we learn?

Some people got their good spirits back and working hard to get the image of someone who picks on the others all the time… but of course in a funny way.

We also learned that people in suits really look good

We also learned that all the work we put in the Forum actually pays off

We also learned that with all the pressure, we still work great as a team

We also learned that when certain people write blog entries, it is likely to end being a really long one

Thanks for all of your participation and all your moral and physique help and assistance.

We all can’t wait to see the Forum with all the stands and all the presentation and we will learn a lot during the next week. Since sleep will be a precious thing during the next week, we will probably be exhausted in the end. But that just puts us in the right mood for Kickoff… so everything is going smooth and a lot is still before us… we are all happy that the Forum finally takes place

And now, before we get all emotional, we will probably go back to work and make it all happen…

Thanks a lot

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