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AIESEC IN BELGIUM
2012/2013 ANNUAL REPORT
PUBLISHED BY AIESEC IN BELGIUM 2012/2013
WHO WE ARE AIESEC is the global youth network impacting the world through leadership development experiences. AIESEC has been facilitating youth leadership activities as well as international internships & volunteer experiences for over 65 years, developing a global learning environment across 124 countries & territories.
WE ENVISION
peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential
OUR SCOPE
AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent, not-for-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, colour, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, national, ethnic or social origin. LIVING DIVERSITY
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.
STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE We aim to deliver the highest quality performance in everything we do. Through creativity and innovation we seek to continuously improve.
OUR VALUES
ACTIVATING LEADERSHIP
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.
ACTING SUSTINABLY We act in a way that is sustainable for our organisation and society. Our decisions take into account the needs of future generations.
OUR REACH 2,400
Universities
8,000 5,000
AIESEC
Founded in 1948
500
Conferences
Partners
International Internships
Members
86,000
Leadership Opportunities
24,000 124
Countries & Territories
AIESEC in Belgium was one of the founding countries of AIESEC in 1948 and has continued to provide leadership development experiences for 65 years.
We have ocer 500 volunteers across 11 universities in 7 cities.
GENT
ANTWERP LIMBURG
ULB ST. LOUIS ICHEC
BRUSSELS HUB
MONS
LEUVEN VUB
LOUVAIN LA NEUVE
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CONFERENCES & SEMINARS Each year AIESEC in Belgium arranges 4 national conferences and 1 regional with AIESEC France, where it gathers the national network coming from all over 11 different local offices and university across Belgium in order to arrange training and workshops to our members ensuring the high quality and alignment of services offered by the organization wherever it is.
BELGIUM FRANCE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR This is a cross country conference weekend gathering AIESECers from both countries to develop their leadership potential, Where Netherlands delegation joined for the first time this year with more than 25 delegates The workshops and sessions were given by Facilitators, AIESECers from more than 10 different countries who are experienced in this field. They guide the conference attendees throughout the weekend and deliver important content in a way that makes it memorable to the delegates. BeFLDS, with 170 young professionals every year, is the perfect occasion for members to discover what it means to be a leader and the qualities they already posses to be one.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE This is the National Conference for the old and the new Executive Boards from AIESEC Belgium. It has the purpose to identify bottlenecks in AIESEC in Belgium, prepare the new selected Executive Boards and make strategies and plannings for next year. This year, NatCo was organised by AIESEC UA. During this three days conference the new Executive Boards will be trained in AIESEC functional knowledge. The National Focus Areas are going to be defined during this conference. Different team building activities will be held to strengthen the new selected Executive Boards for their tasks in 2013-2014.
FUNCTIONAL MEETING In the beginning of the second semester AIESEC in Belgium gathered the leadership body of the organization for one day summit in Brussels organized by AIESEC VUB under the theme of "Simply Do it". The summit with a success by the 80 attendances who came from the 11 different LCs discussing and breaking down the directions and strategies for the second semester
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AIESEC in Belgium members were also present all over the globe for international conferences and events, sharing knowledge, ideas and expanding their network. AIESEC in Belgium was represented in the following conferences:
AIESEC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS MOSCOW (AUGUST 2012) EUROPEAN CONGRESS ROMANIA (OCTOBER 2012)
GLOBAL LEADERS SUMMIT SERBIA (FEBRUARY 2013)
MIDDLES EAST AND NORTH AFRICA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR LEBANON(MARCH 2013)
WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR NETHERLANDS (MARCH 2013) EURO XPRO TURKEY (APRIL 2013) WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA PRESIDENTIAL MEETING PORTUGAL (MAY 2013)
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INCOMING EXCHANGE 21% GROWTH
110
PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES
10
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES
9% PARTNER GROWTH
36
PARTNERS
In the midst of the ongoing economic crisis in Europe and increasing youth unemployment, AIESEC In Belgium worked to continue to serve as a bridge between the business community and youth. Focusing on providing the most talented students and recent graduates access to opportunities beyond their borders and breaking down cultural barriers, AIESEC in Belgium filled 110 positions this year through the exchange program and provided 110 experiences for young people coming to live the Belgian experience since August 1st of 2012. The continued quality of our program and our focus on the customer experience and satisfaction of our stakeholders has seen AIESEC In Belgium grow by an overall growth of 16% and increased national partnerships by over 75%. As we work on constantly innovating our offerings to companies and providing more efficient processes AIESEC In Belgium has begun outcompeting our competition in the private sector to provide higher quality candidates more reliably. AIESEC is the premier solution for accessing talented young individuals in the current “Global War for Talent� and serves as a turn-key HR solution for some of the largest multinationals in Belgium while simultaneously serving the fast growing SME sector. As the world becomes more and more competitive in the talent sphere and in the need to always have the best, AIESEC will continue to work with companies to serve as the first choice partner for accessing young talent by providing the highest level of quality.
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EXPANSION TO LUXEMBOURG
400% GROWTH
100%
8
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES CREATED
4
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES DELIVERED
GROWTH
Luxembourg is one of the fast growing countries in AIESEC and has made strides in terms of raising traineeships for the global network...I have no doubt in a few years we will consider Luxembourg to be one of the strongest entities for incoming exchange!” -Rafael Alexandrian Member Committee Vice-President Business Development Luxembourg over the course of our term raised 8 internships with companies such as HSBC, RBS, Guardian Industries, State Street Bank.
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I have found the AIESEC recruitment process to be efficient and very professional. AIESEC In Belgium delivered excellent client service, being always available to discuss our needs and understand our requirements. The quality of candidates proposed to us was found to be of the highest standards to the greatest appreciation of myself and my line management...I have since recommended two other departments within our firm to use AIESEC for the recruitment of interns which is a testimony of my appreciation of the service I have received.
Thomas De Montmarin
Head of Business Risk and Control Management HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt
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OUTGOING EXCHANGE 49 DESTINATION COUNTRIES
34% PARTNER GROWTH
158 STUDENTS ABROAD
For this term the focuses for the Outgoing exchange program were first to improve our process towards the needs of our customers and provide and product with quality, and second to positionate our program across our stakeholders as the first choice to go abroad. In the Global Internship Program we developed Exchange products according the Supply and Demand that our Network has, as a result we offered to our customers defined exchange programs according their profiles with selected destinations. This approach allowed us to increase our recruitment processes based on profiles in a 27%, scale up our operations to have a growth of 55% in realizations and have a better understanding of our market Our main purpose for the Global Community Development Program was to create more awareness of it in order to capitalize our summer peak and the opportunities that this period has to offer to our market. Based on strategies of country partners and showcasing the value of a volunteer experience we had a growth of 38% in our recruitment for summer peak which lead us to close our term with 79 realizations and leave a pipeline of more than 50 students ready to go for their exchange after exams.
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The GO BRAND For the first time, AIESEC in Belgium developed a brand for the exchange programs under the name: GO!. The purpose of this brand was to give a fresh look to our programmes and have a catchy name to attract our market. With GO! We had the advantage to adapt the brand towards our two programs, Global Internship Program and Global Community Program under Go Pro and Go Taiwan! For example. As a result we gave a fresh and student friendly look to our promotion materials being able to increase in overall our applications in to go abroad in a 40% percent during the first semester of 2013.
GLOBAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 34 destination countries 27% growth in students joining the program 79 students abroad under this programme 55% of growth in students sent abroad
GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 23 destination countries 38% growth in students joining the program 79 students abroad under this programme 18% of growth in students sent abroad
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CAMPUS RECRUITMENT The Campus Recruitment experience provided by AIESEC helps every year thousands of students to connect and network with Belgian companies, directly on their campus grounds. Open to all students, the fairs are the place to find your graduate management program or your first employment in some of Belgium top employers. Despite the economical situation affecting severely some of our main customers industries (such as Banking and Insurance), and a number of companies attending in slight decrease, the number of students attending the fair increased significantly this year.
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AIESEC CAMPUS RECRUITMENT REPORT Dear Partner,
We have now closed the year 2012-2013 for the AIESEC Campus Recruitment Experience (Job Days / Job Fairs), and would like to share with you our impressions on this year’s edition, as well as receive your own feedback. Overall we are quite satis�ied with the events this year, and we hope that you were able to �ind the right pro�iles for your company. We kindly remind you that, should there be any specific profile you have not been able to fill during the year, our customized Global Talent Sourcing program is open to you, and can help you fill internships, junior positions or graduate programs that still have vacancies.
JOB FAIRS T HIS YEAR ’ S PRIORITY : S TUDENTS ATTENDANCE Based on your previous feedback, we made students attendance to the Fairs, the utmost priority for this year. We relied more heavily than ever on our close presence on our different campuses to promote directly to the students, by word of mouth, classroom speeches, posters and �lyers, in order to make sure that every student of the targeted faculties knew when and where the Fair would happen.
25% M ORE STUDENTS THAN LA ST YEAR
We are happy to announce A G E N E R A L G R O W T H O F 25 % I N T H E N U M B E R O F S T U D E N T S T H A T A T T E N D E D O U R F A I R S T H I S Y E A R , with exceptional numbers on the campuses of HUB, UCL-Mons, UGent and UCL-Louvain-La-Neuve. Only one Fair had a disappointing number of attendants, in KULeuven, mainly due to a poor communication of schedules at the university, resulting in 3 fairs happening on the same day. We are putting everything in place to ensure that this will not happen again and that the number of attendees will be satisfactory this year. A S A R E SU L T, P L E A SE NO T E T H A T T H E F A I R A T KULE U V E N H A S B E E N S W I T C H E D T O T H E S E C O N D S E M E S T E R F O R T H E 2 0 13- 2014 E D I T I O N , ( A N D W I L L T H U S B E H E LD I N M A R C H 20 1 4) . T H A N K Y O U F O R Y O U R C OM P R E H E N S I O N .
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2,600 STUDENTS ATTENDED OU R F AIRS Below you will �ind the table of the different campuses with their number of student attending:
Campus
Number of students
HUB
300 students
KULeuven
140 students
UAntwerpen
Relatively to university size*
Aim for 2013-2014
+
350 students
270 students
ICHEC
UCL-Mons (FUCaM) ULB
UHasselt
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300 students
+++
300 students
-
+++
350 students
=
620 students
+++
150 students
UCL-Louvain-La-Neuve
300 students
240 students 230 students
UGent
++
+
250 students 230 students 400 students 500 students 200 students 650 students
*Note: Comparatively to the number of students in faculties of Business & Economics, IT, and business related faculties. +/- are given as an indication of the capacity and focus that will be given to improving the number of participants on the campuses with minuses.
JOB DAYS / WORKSHOPS We received very positive feedback from the students as to the new format of the Job Days (i.e. workshops instead of company presentations). Among the feedback was mostly recurrent the fact that workshops are bringing something to the students attending, showing what the company are really expecting/doing (mostly for the workshops under the form of business cases or simulations), and a privileged place to interact with company representatives.
AMONG THE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PRODUCT, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE WORKSHOPS DURING THE JOB FAIRS
THEMSELVES, AS THIS TENDS TO HURT ATTENDANCE TO BOTH EVENTS, AND IS DIFFICULT TO MANAGE IN TERMS OF
NUMBER OF COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE ONES WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN BOTH EVENTS.
A VERAGE T HE
ATTENDANCE OF
30
STUDENTS PER WORKSHO P
PERFECT OPPORTUNI TY TO BRAND YOUR COM PANY
AND INCREASE YOUR VI SIBILITY TO GRADUATING STUDENTS
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UCREW U-Crew is a joint AIESEC-Microsoft project, in which members are organizing training sessions and workshops for university students in order to increase their IT literacy. Get the job of your dream by writing a proper CV and presenting it well thanks to your Office suite, learn how to work effectively as a team using effective teamwork software, etc. Thanks to this program, around 30-35 members got the chance to put their training skills to good use and further the awareness about the IT literacy, and 7 interns came for a Global Community Development Internship.
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2012/2013 TEAM
MOHAMMED OUF PRESIDENT RAFAEL ALEXANDRIAN VICE PRESIDENT EXTERNAL RELATIONS
KHADIJA REIJY VICE PRESIDENT TALENT MANAGEMENT
ROMAIN PRUDHOMME VICE PRESIDENT PROJECTS
ROMAIN PRUDHOMME VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE
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2013/2014 TEAM From left to right: Thomas Vansiliette, Babajide Okusanya, Rafael Carvalho, Anastasia Vasilachi, Dina Ismail, Hélène Yohannes, Dries De Schutter, Anna Sysoeva
HÉLÈNE YOHANNES PRISIDENT THOMAS VANSILIETTE VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE & LEGALITIES RAFAEL CARVALHO VICE PRESIDENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ANNA SYSOEVA INCOMING EXCHANGE MANAGER
DRIES DE-SCHUTTE VICE PRESIDENT PROJECTS BABAJIDE OKUSANYA VICE PRESIDENT MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ANASTASIA VASILACHI VICE PRESIDENT TALENT MANAGEMENT DINA ISMAIL VICE PRESIDENT OUTGOING EXCHANGE
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