The AIESEC Experience and Products

Global Talent For Partners

Global Talent has been an impactful program for AIESEC in Belgium over the past years, and that did not change this year. Together with the Business Development team, many companies hired trainees in Belgium this term. Legal questions, integration difficulties or practical searches: the Global Talent & Customer Experience team were always ready to assist the international trainee community. In addition, 5 Local Committees (Bruxelles, Gent, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, UAntwerp) were also running an incoming exchange department in which they managed to conduct many sales meetings, upscale partnerships, sign new partners and welcome trainees from all over the world.

Our LCs

In 2021, we started the term with 5 local committees running the Incoming Global talent product. In the beginning of the term, the focus of the Local Committees was to build sales capacity within their membership and maintain the partnership they had from previous years with companies. In order to be able to support the LCs better, the national team increased the amount of physical of coaching and visits to provide more on-ground support.

We started 2022 with LCs having a clear sales strategy, improved sales conversion, and higher amount of approvals and more partners signed. Despite an improvement in terms of consideration conversion rate (%Open-Apd), the processing time from Open-APD was the biggest challenge. To tackle this issue, we had multiple bottleneck spaces, educational space and o2o addressing the issue of expectations setting with partners and “how to deal with objections”. With 4/5 achieving more opens, 3/5 achieving more approvals, all LCs having a pipeline for account management and 215% approval growth. We believe that our LCs have a solid base and more knowledge to provide even more impactful exchanges to AIESEC in Belgium.