AIESEC UAE newsletter by Dmitriy Dmitriev

“The international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential”

Welcome to AIESEC UAE “AIESEC is the world’s largest youth organization, bringing together over 50,000 university students across 110 countries. Our network connects high-potential people interested in Leadership and Management and provides them the opportunity to develop their skills in a practical environment. AIESEC also provides members with the opportunity to work abroad in areas from management, human resources, marketing, information technology, cultural education and linguistics in any one of our 10,000 internships globally each year. Additionally AIESEC fosters leadership for a positive impact on society by providing 12,000 leadership positions at local, national and international levels each year.”

Message from the president AIESEC United Arab Emirates in 2010/2011 Welcome and thank you for reading the AIESEC UAE Q3 External Newsletter. In this newsletter you will find more information about the activities of AIESEC UAE and the engagement opportunities that we provide.

Our key event for 2010/2011:

4th Gulf Talent Conference

Become our partner and connect with AIESEC’s talent!

The stand AIESEC UAE National team for 2010/11 is Engage, Empower, Achieve. It reflects our ambition of the term which is to engage all of our stakeholders in a stronger and more positive way, Empower our membership and youth to take up ownership and to lead the organization which in turn will lead us to achieving our goals. The National team has set AIESEC UAE 2010/2011 Goals ambitious goals for the term and after three months I can • 180 Members confidently state that we are on • 80 Exchanges Realized • 80 Leadership Opportunities the right track of achieving them. Currently we have around 70 members in the organization and st we realized 6 exchange experiences (from the 1 of July 2010). Our membership recruitment is underway as we speak in various universities in the UAE. We have signed one new partnership with Nielsen for our International Internship program whereby Nielsen is taking AIESEC interns. In addition to this our current partners ACER, Reckitt Benckiser and Kraft have decided to take in more interns through AIESEC which is for us a testament of the quality of the services that AIESEC UAE provides. We also have signed a partnership with Education First to be our recruitment partner for the year which is the first of its kind in AIESEC UAE and in the gulf region as well.

Our biggest event of the year the 4th AIESEC Gulf Talent Conference taking place from 11th till14th of November. The first day of the conference dubbed the Youth Leadership Summit is going to bring over 350 delegates from the Our Board of Advisors UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar where they will be given workshops Chris Johnston (Chair) – Managing and sessions from our conference partners revolved around youth Director Sev.com leadership in the topics or human capital development, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship and social Hasan Makansi – Director of Partners responsibility. Development, TECOM Overall the term 2010/11 is proving to be a very exciting one and I truly believe that this year AIESEC UAE will be creating a greater positive impact on society. I would like to thank all of our partners for their continued support and I sincerely hope that many more companies would join us on our journey. Yours truly, Hamad Taher President of AIESEC in the United Arab Emirates 2010/11

Eric Hensel – Senior Consultant in Emirates foundation Abdul Mutalib Al Hashmi – Managing Director Next Level Management Consultancy Stella Grancheva – former President of AIESEC UAE

Our events in the upcoming months... ...place for you to join us...

The 4th Gulf Talent Conference and Youth Leadership Summit AIESEC welcomes you to become involved with the 4th Gulf Talent Conference hosted by AIESEC in UAE. By choosing to interact with AIESEC, you are demonstrating a valuable commitment to young people and improving the capacity of our society. The Gulf Talent Conference is one of the biggest events for youth in the region to develop skills, build competencies and tackle key issues for the Gulf. More than 300 delegates of 4 countries will convene to set strategic plans, review initiatives, undergo functional training & grow their networks. The conference represents an opportunity for corporate and noncorporate organizations to: Access the future leadership within the Gulf region. Develop a positive employer brand. Access the opinions about this key market. Help enable these high-potential young people to become responsible future leaders within their communities. This conference is an opportunity to conduct innovative workshops/case studies and hear the perspectives of talented young people who are diverse in their background, opinions, knowledge and expertise.

The 4th AIESEC Gulf Talent Conference will focus on youth leadership and development in the countries of the Gulf. The keynote event for the conference is the Youth Leadership Summit, where companies and organizations will have the opportunity to interact with young people people around issues that are important to our unique region. Through a series of parallel workshops, panel discussions and talks, 150 young leaders with 200 students from premier institutions like Zayed University, HCT, University of Dubai and others will talk tal to business leaders from private and public sectors, will seek to bridge the gap between them on a multitude of issues like: Topics that could be addressed:

Sustainability practices Information & Communication Technology Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainable Finances and Microfinance Youth leadership Empowerment and Career progression Human capital development Harnessing youth innovation Green Ideas

These opportunities listed below will all take place on this day.

Other events: Summit flow and Points of engagement eng

International internship program As many of you knows one of our main activities is the international internship program for university students and fresh graduates. AIESEC offers your organization access to international talent. The people you select are becoming your employees for a certain period of time and can be working in the following fields: management, marketing, logistics, HR, project management, accounting, finance, CSR, environmental issues, web development, software development and programming, system analysis and design, network management , database management as well as e.g. language teaching. This calendar year AIESEC globally already managed to realize 10 000 internships around the world. This is historical success for us and proves that our program is valuable and unique in the way it is run.

AIESEC Difference We can provide you with good quality candidates from undergraduates to masters. Our program is running the whole year long, so whenever you need staff we can help.

Example on internship realized within this year here in UAE Company: ACER Intern: James Otieno, from Kenya Internship description: Responsible for enhancing relationship with the channel partners, to achieve the team target, market intelligence and support in sales in and sale out initiatives.

Example on internship realized within this year here in UAE Company: Reckitt Benckiser Intern: Bagher Sayadi Takhtehkar, from Iran Internship description: Work on all components of the Marketing Mix – new product launches, advertising and media, market research, packaging, in-store promotion; manage a range of diverse and complex markets across the Middle East and North Africa region. AIESEC is there to ensure the smooth internship execution starting from cooperation on selections to taking care about the intern after coming, providing the accommodation and ensuring the satisfaction on all sites.

Example on internship realized within this year here in UAE Company: Philips Intern: Agniezska Matkowska, from Poland Internship description: Formulation of strategy and long-term growth priorities; procure market insights through primary or secondary research, ensuring intelligence is current and accessible.

Company: Network Arabia Intern: Bonny Lu, from USA Internship description: research on travel and destinations worldwide cities; provide innovative ideas to support the interactivity and actuality of company’s websites

For more information feel free to contact: Vice President for Business Development Marie Zouzelkova marie.zouzelkova@aiesec.net Mob: 0567348403

We can provide you with very specific profile of people especially in terms of language knowledge as well as market knowledge, as far as AIESEC is active in more than 100 countries worldwide.

“In the last few months I had the opportunity to work with a couple of AIESEC interns, I was extremely pleased to see how dynamic, how open and how innovative they are. I guess AIESEC is a great organization providing us with right new blood that we need, with a lot of energy.”

Zaki Khoury, Regional Citizenship Lead, Microsoft Gulf

AIESEC XP corner This year one of AIESEC national focuses is empowering country membership. The increasing of level of AIESEC experiences, offering right opportunities for current members and capitalization on external students market are key issues for fitting national focuses. Functional areas, which will be mainly responsible for delivering all initiatives, are Talent Management, Outgoing Exchange and Local Committees Development.

CURRENT STATE Local Committees: American University of Sharjah Dubai International Academic City Zayed University Abu Dhabi Zayed University Dubai Organizational Goals achieved: Number of members in country – 50 people Number of international internships realized (since 1st of July, 2010) – 6 Number of leadership positions realized (since 1st of July, 2010) – 6

Membership devision

Internship Delivery

Other 14% National Level 83%

Emarati 60%

Indians 26%

Local Level 17%

PLANS In next quarter planed to be realized 2 waves of Recruitment, opened new local chapters and setup coco operations with new Universities for international internship programs.

Recruitment goals: Members to be recruited – 95 people Exchange Participants to be recruited – 40 people Month September Week

October 4

November 4

Membership Recruitment Exchange Participants Recruitment Vice President for Talent Management Yelisaveta Bachina

New Local Chapters: HCT Sharjah University of Dubai For more information feel free to contact:

Co-operations with Universities about international internship program: HCT Men’s College Dubai Al Ghurair University Murdoch University American University of Ras Al Khaimah

yelyzaveta.bachina@aiesec.net Mob: 056 7589503 Vice President for Outgoing Exchange and LC Development Regina Kambulatova

AIESEC UAE UNIVERSITY PARTNERS:

Dubai International Academic City | Zayed University Abu Dhabi | Zayed University Dubai | American University of Sharjah

AIESEC UAE CHAMPIONS:

PricewaterhouseCoopers | Dubai International Academic City

AIESEC UAE INVESTORS:

AIESEC UAE PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS: