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

Two months to go!

2008-01-27T01:14:00.000+01:00

Time is moving on fast - especially during exams - and Career Days are getting closer.
Here is a short update on what has happened over the past few weeks:

Although stressed enormously by exams , Nicole and Anja have managed to design a professional flyer to attract students to the event and give it the appropriate image.
With inscription deadline expiring last Friday we have finalized the list of the companies and NGOs who will be present during the event and are proud to announce that their total number is about twenty which we think is already quite considerable given the difficulties and the fierce competition we are facing.
Karl and Nicole attended a meeting of all the Swiss Career Days Presidents in Bern and came back motivated to win this year's Career Days award sponsored by ASCDA, our national association.

Over the next weeks, we will now concentrate on giving the event its final shape: marketing, logistics, schedule and the overall presentation will be the main issues.
It will probably be a very busy time and the CD team will certainly again occupy the AIESEC office for uncountable hours. Well, what else is there to say except for:

WORK HARD !!!

AIESEC Geneva proudly presents...

2008-01-10T20:20:00.000+01:00

…the AIESEC Geneva Career Days 2008 Organization Committee !

THE TEAM

Here’s the amazing people who dedicate hours and hours of their time uniquely to the success of Career Days 2008:

Anja: OCP, Valentine: business communication, Nicole: Marketing, Kasia: Finance, Stefan: Sponsoring, Alexandre: Logistics, Karl: IOs & NGOs

The entire team has been incredibly busy over the past two months, namely with CALLING, CALLING, CALLING – sometimes over hundred companies per week. With the inscription deadline coming up soon, we are right now finalizing the list of the companies who are going to present themselves to the students.

THE EVENT

For several reasons, this year’s OC decided to create a new, innovative and special Career Days concept for Geneva, with a focus on students in HEC, Economics & International Relations. Our forum, the first of this specialized kind, will take place from April 2^nd to 4^th, 2008, involving stands, presentations and workshops from renowned companies and organizations.

Beforehand, students will have the opportunity to get their CVs corrected by professional career managers and to attend special preparation sessions so that they will be able to profit the most from Career Days.

CAREERDAYS.CH

www.careerdays.ch is our official website where you can find information on all AIESEC Career Days in Switzerland. Apart from that, it offers the possibility to upload your CV to a database that is accessed by human resources responsibles from all companies participating at any of the Career Days forum.

So, that's it for our brief overview of Career Days '08.

Check out this blog regularly to see what we are up to and how we are doing !

See you at Career Days !

L’AVENIR NE SE PRÉVOIT PAS, IL SE PRÉPARE !

As time moves on

2007-12-10T16:43:00.000+01:00

Dear readers...

A long, long, long, long... long time ago we were beginning a project that was so much fun and a great success... Career Days 07... it was amazing... we learned a lot...

But there comes the time when we all have to let go... and this time is now... as much as this project was dear to us, we are now glad to hand it over to other people who will strive for as much excellence as we did.

This is the final entry of the "old" team... as we hand over the blog to the "new" team... we wish them all the creativity and pleasure that we had and we hope that success will be theirs too...

We have one request to you, dear blog reader, though... please give the pleasure to the new team and check out this blog more often then you did in our time...

Have a good one
CD Team 07

Is the blog dead????

2007-05-03T20:08:00.000+02:00

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

Your OC Career Days

What the h*** is going on with your team???

2007-03-04T19:58:00.000+01:00

Hello to all of you

Long time no entry... but that's not because we are so lazy, that's because we are so buzy...

We are heating up now... everything needs to be done at the same time... but above all, we have to do calls!!!

To some of your members, it seems that the phone is glued to their ears. We pretty much have taken over the office...

Well, but we have also positive news: We already got 21 companies coming!!!!

We will keep up this pace, so that we get some more... in case you want to get infos about the forum, feel free to visit our website www.unige.ch/forumemploi

Oh, and even more important: We got a new Team Member... Borjana will take over the logistics, for which we are absolutely grateful... Borjana, a very warm welcome!!!

Ok, that's all for now... we gotta get mentally prepared for the all decisive next week...
Take care
The OC

We're still there

2007-02-08T14:44:00.000+01:00

At lot of water flowed down the Nile since we posted the last blog entry. We just wanted to mention that we are still in effect...

Half of our team has now finished their exams and are ready to continue with the planning. The other half is still stuck in a lot of exams, so they had to step back.

We are now in a crucial stage of our project since we have to call all the companies to invite them to Career Days. This is a lot of work... but we're still up to it...

Anyway, we have actually not more to tell, so...
that's all folks
The OC CD

Even more pictures!!!

2007-01-12T01:26:00.000+01:00

Now the blog gets crowded with pictures, I hope this will satisfy your demand of pictures on our blog...

Commentary: Ice skating, or how 66% Team Building can be fun too.

So folks, that's now really all
The OC
PS: Hard to guess the 90 kg show-off, isn't it?

Enhancement

2007-01-11T23:28:00.000+01:00

Yes, we know, pictures is still our weak point...

but as you can see, we are working on it... here we have now the promised Teambuilding Event Pictures.

Explanation:
Top right: The enourmous amount of food that we nearly didn't eat all (when the picture was taken, we already had eaten half of it... you do the math)

Top left: Our genevan minority at the food preparation. Logic of the food chain: Bottom produces it, top consumes it.

Bottom left: Our beloved OCP doing the same thing... (well, somehow the food chain got mixed up...)

Bottom right: Preparing the food was actually a lot of fun, but Petar must already thinking about eating it (otherwise, where would that grin come from... or he might just be dreaming about getting to the top of the food chain... (with the same effect)).

Funny time but that's all
Bye
The OC

Team Building Event

2007-01-08T00:08:00.000+01:00

Well, everybody, we are now officially not only an OC, but also a team. Yes, you heard right, we passed a teambuilding event.

It was a day during which we became aware of some really interesting facts:
A get together with a 90 kg show-off can have very negative impacts on children.
If your ice-skating team consists of three mediocre skaters and one, that is a little bit better, you end up having the three chasing the one over the whole skating rink.

As you might have figured out, the first event on our Team Building Day was ice-skating. We enjoyed it really much and we figured, that even a 66% Team Building can be very funny.

The second part was located in our OCP's house. We got to know each other very well. We determined who is on the bottom of the OC intern food chain and of course we discussed, who is the black sheep. We figured out, that Genevan's are definitely a minority and we felt good about it. Some members of the OC also learned, that eating sushi blindfolded can lead to very hot experiences (so much for: First thing you have to do is to trust your team members).

As you have guessed right by now, the second part was eating sushi. Even though it took an eternity until we were set to eat, we enjoyed it very much. We all did get to know are limits in terms of getting food into the stomach. It was delicious.

Besides ice-skating and eating sushi, we did all the things required for team building... we had fun, we talked a lot and ... oh yeah, we took pictures.

These pictures will be put on the blog shortly... as soon as they are in.

Well folks, that is all
The OC CD

Career Days at DoIt

2006-12-17T12:52:00.000+01:00

A part of the OC has also been to DoIt, so we provide you here with a very short report on our experiences:

Bilal has been on the Career Days track, where they discussed things about the new website and the cooperation between the different Career Days in Switzerland. So we know now, that the all-new Career Days Website will be ready by the end of january.

The rest of the OC didn't get to talk about Career Days so much, but during the learning cycles we had the possibility to get in touch with the other OCs (Zürich and Basel) to exchange opinions and strategies.

We learned a lot about the national situation and learned some new points of view.

New Member

2006-12-17T12:43:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody

Yes!!! "Finally", you might say. We will stop bothering you with demands of help (at least for a while): Our OC is complete. Here is our New Member:

Petar Lalovic
He will be resonsible for Communication.

Welcome to our team, hopefully it will be a good experience for you (... and also a bit of fun...)

So folks, this is all
The OC

LCM Presentation

2006-11-28T10:24:00.000+01:00

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...

Leasure time is over...

2006-11-28T01:17:00.000+01:00

Well, after having prepared some things during summer, we finally can start the real deal. The collaboration is fixed in a contract and we are all set to go. Now we actually start working. And we will. We are going to work like crazy to make this the best Career Days Event that has ever taken place. Or at least to be better than Lausanne...

We negociated a deal, that is actally ensuring the finances of Aiesec Geneva along with a 40% share of revenues (which we will create abondantely) or losses (which we will, of course, avoid).
The event with the companies and Stands will actually be called Career Days.
Since I don't think we actually pointed this out enough yet, I will make it all clear to you: This year we are collaborating with UniEmploi, the people from Etudiant+. The whole event will take place in Spring, from April 30th to May 11th, and it will be bigger, better and a whole lot more interesting than before. Just all new. It will be huge, with an uncountable number of companies and NGOs and even more students. All faculties will be present, because UniEmploi has better contacts to the students outside of UniMail. It will be cool. And we are working with professionals, so our whole group is in for a lot of learning processes which we are eager to do of course. In case we haven't mentioned that yet: We are motivated. Very motivated.

Well, I have to stop myself sometime, and I decided to do that now. Just remember: Career Days 2007: Bigger, better and a whole lot more interesting...

Help!

2006-11-23T22:49:00.000+01:00

HEY, everybody, out there, yes we are talking to you:

We still need two people. We mean, come on, you can't really want us to do all the work. We know you want to help. You could be our knight in shining armour, who could get us out of our desperate work attitude. And hey, Logistic isn't that bad... no, actually it is a lot of fun... we left it on purpose just for you. And of course Catering... we'll need somebody for Catering... come on, it's easy. You just have to get the food. I mean, food, this is the best of all. What would we do without food...

So you two, who are out there, who want to help us. Thanks already... just write an email like: Yes, I am motivated and you seem to be a cool group, maybe we'll get along... to the adress kaetze@ge.aiesec.ch and we're in business.

Thanks, really, thanks a lot

The OC

Pictures!!!!

2006-11-17T10:20:00.000+01:00

Well, maybe we were a bit to eager to start. We still have to wait. We still have to finalize some last agreements with UniEmploi. This will take place beginning of november.

But we know of course, that the point of a blog is not only to inform people, but to present pictures. So we are delighted to announce that the pictures are finally there.

So here we come (from top to bottom):

Bilal Zafar
OCP Organisation Committee

Janine Peter
Sponsoring

Tamara Nunez
Campus Marketing

Dominique Ursprung
Organisational Marketing

Stefan Katz
Finance

And, well, of course we should mention that we are still very motivated and looking forward to getting new experiences (especially in cooperation with UniEmploi).

It's gonna be fun.

That's all folks...

Progress

2006-11-10T00:21:00.000+01:00

Yes finally, there is some progress to announce.

Finally a reason to write something...

The agreements with Uni Emploi are finalized so we will start as soon as possible to get the companies interested in Career Days.

In the next days, we will also present our crew a little bit more with some information and each one with a nice picture... Delightful...

Anyway, that's all for now

A new blog in the universe

2006-11-02T18:42:00.000+01:00

Yes, something the world has waited for eternities has been finalized these days: Career Days Geneva has its own blog.
We will post information regularly about our progress in organising this, for AIESEC, very interesting and crucial event.

Some words about our crew:
Right now we are 5 highly motivated people:

Dominique (Marketing Companies)
Tamara (Marketing Students)
Janine (Sponsoring)
Stefan (Finances)
Bilal (Leader of the group)

At this point, we are still looking for people to join us. We have free posts like Logistics and Catering. Feel free to contact us in case you're interested! Apart from that, every sort of help is, of course, always welcome :)

Hopefully very soon we will have the finalized agreement with Uni Emploi (with whom we cooperate for the Career Days 2007) and then we can actually start contacting companies and NGOs.

Well, this is all for now, as we said, we will inform you about are progress as soon as progress sets in.