Will you organize the next STAR Management Week? Recruitment Brochure 2021
STAR Management Week 1,250+ participating students 50+ companies Over 60 prominent speakers The STAR Management Week (SMW) is the largest off-campus business event in Europe. This professional and prestigious event is the annual highlight of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and STAR and takes place in November. As a member of the STAR Management Week committee, you will be responsible for the organization of the entire event: from the various orientational and recruitment activities to the Honorary Discussions with numerous CEOs. This variety of events makes the committee a truly diverse and unique experience. You will also be working on the long term strategy of the event and you can use
your creativity to come up with new activities. This is the chance to develop yourself at every possible level. Are you ready to organize an event with over a thousand participants every year? When you are a member of the SMW committee, you will be responsible for a â‚Ź150,000 budget, marketing the event to almost 10,000 RSM students, bringing the interests of
This is the chance to maximize your personal and professional development multinational companies and students together, and attract prominent global speakers to the event. This will give you the opportunity to apply your knowledge gained during your studies into practice!
Get the thrill of working towards this week together with your team, consisting out of eight committee members, and develop yourself through experiencing the excitement and challenges that come with such a large project.
Compensation & Selection Financial compensation The STAR Management Week committee starts at the beginning of March with 2 days a week. From April until the beginning of November, the committee will be a full-time job. During the summer, the committee will be present at university full-time as well. You will still have some time to go on a holiday, but this should
be coordinated together with your committee and the Project Manager Career of the STAR Board. Because organizing the STAR Management Week is a full-time job, you will not be able to spend much time on side jobs. Therefore, STAR will provide you with a financial compensation for any delay in studying.
Selection process After filling out the application form online, you will be invited for your first interview. The first interview is meant to get to know each other better, talk about the project in general, and to provide more information about the specific functions and to manage expectations. After this interview, you may be selected for a second
interview. For the second interview, we will ask you to prepare cases for specific functions after which you will explain your choices and answers in your second interview. After the second interview, you will be informed whether you are selected to be on the committee or not.
Official minor
More information
When doing the STAR Management Week, it is possible to receive 15 EC granted by RSM. The SMW is regarded as an official minor at RSM. Are you not able to go on exchange or are you not sure yet? Or are you looking for a challenging project? Then, the SMW is the perfect opportunity for you!
For more information, please contact Aniek Vuurmans at pm.career@rsmstar. nl or give us a call at +31(0)10-4082035.
Application deadline 23:59h, 17th of January, 2020 Open to all RSM MSc and BSc students.
A word from our Project Manager Career Hi! My name is Aniek Vuurmans and I am the Project Manager Career and Vice Chairman of the XLIIIrd STAR board. I am 20 years old and finished my bachelor’s in business administration this July. During my first bachelor year, I was part of the Activity Team BA. After a great first year organizing parties and the Lustrum Active Members Weekend, I was up for a new challenge and joined the RSM STAR Case Competition 2019 as Treasurer. Together with the committee, we brought the competition to a new height. Regarding sustainability, we took steps and organized the first edition of the Sustainability Speakers Event 2020. During my third year, I went on exchange to Canada. After my return to Rotterdam, I realised STAR offers the best playground to develop yourself. As I was ready for a next step, I applied for a board year! As the Project Manager Career, I am responsible for the supervision of STAR’s most impactful recruitment events: STAR Management Week (SMW) and Erasmus Recruitment Days (ERD). I am looking forward to working closely together with the SMW committee, ER board and our joint venture partner EFR.
Aniek Vuurmans
The social side of STAR Once you are an Active Member, your social network will start to expand immediately. You will have dinner with your committee on Wednesdays and go to our favourite bar for the weekly drinks afterwards. We also host the sensational theme nights, the Christmas Gala, the Active Members Days, the Active Members Weekends, and so much more. As a member of the STAR Management Week Committee, you will even get your own spot at the STAR office in Mandeville and you will be in close contact with the STAR Board to share your creative ideas with them. This year the COVID-19 measurers are considered for all above mentioned activities. Some examples of our COVID-19 proof alternatives are the weekly zoom parties and Active Member activities organized by some committees within STAR.
STAR Academy What’s in it for you? The STAR Academy is the learning center within STAR that offers members the opportunity to develop their personal and professional skills. As a full-time member of STAR, you will have the maximum opportunity to develop yourself! Every member of the STAR Management Week committee follows a personalized track which starts with filling in your own Personal Development Plan. This plan forces you to be concious about your ambitions regarding personal learning goals. Based on these goals, STAR will make sure you receive suitable trainings. These trainings can be categorized in hard skill trainings (acquisition training and InDesign training) and the soft side of development (leadership training and team building). Besides that, you, as a full-time committee member, will receive three sessions of management training at a renowned management training company. During the year there will also be plenty of feedback and learning goals meetings to ensure you develop yourself personally and professionally to a maximum extent. Lastly, you will get your own buddy, a full-time alumni having plenty experience, to give you feedback and support with your personal development on a regular basis.
“It is your time to lead a team of seven different personalities with different responsibilities, with these different personalities in an effective, professional, and personal way. You will lea a proactive approach to manage expectations and find the trade-off between different ideas a
Chairman As the Chairman of the STAR Management Week, you will be the leader, motivator, supporter, and coordinator of the STAR Management Week Committee. A great challenge lies ahead in leading and encouraging your team, supporting individual team members, and being responsible for one of STAR’s largest flagship projects! The function of Chairman is incredibly diverse and requires a broad interest, strong communication skills, a sense of responsibility, and decisiveness among others.
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Monitor the overall process and set deadlines and targets for each function and the project as a whole Support, motivate, and encourage your team on a functional and personal level Lead effective meetings to get to the best possible ideas and solutions Be the representative of the STAR Management Week committee to both internal and external stakeholders
“It is your time to lead a team of seven different personalities with different responsibilities, quite a challenging job, but it is an amazing experience! You will learn how to communicate with different personalities in an effective, professional, and personal way. You will learn how to keep the overview, monitor the progress, and work in a structured manner. Take a proactive approach to manage expectations and find the trade-off between different ideas and opinions, and make the best out of this incredible learning experience.” - Noam Cosla, Chairman STAR Management Week Committee 2020
quite a challenging job, but it’s an amazing experience! You will learn how to communicate arn how to keep the overview, monitor the progress, and work in a structured manner. Take and opinions, and make the best out of this incredible learning experience.”
Treasurer As the treasurer of the STAR Management Week, you will be responsible for the overall financial health and continuity of the STAR Management Week. This includes having the responsibility of working with a budget of €150.000 while keeping the bigger picture in mind. You need to be organized and disciplined, and you need to keep an objective view on expenses, revenues, and their impact. This function requires great people skills and the ability to stand firm and say “no” to your enthusiastic team members, while keeping an open mind and considering their creative ideas. What will be your responsibilities? • Creating budgets for multiple scenarios and safeguarding them • Guiding your team in decision making in the field of treasury • Doing the bookkeeping and getting experienced with Exact • Finding a balance between being critical (saying “no”) and keeping an open mind to your team’s creative ideas “It is your time to step out of your comfort zone and get challenged. The STAR Management Week is a period during which you have the opportunity to develop yourself immensely on a professional and personal level. I
was responsible for the financial side of theevent, which means I had to be prepared for different scenarios due to the COVID-19 situation. I made sure that our financial resources were optimally used by allocating our financial means and keeping a close eye on my fellow committee members! During the STAR Management Week, I learned to structure information, make the right decisions together with my team, as well as develop myself personally and professionally.” - Laura van der Zeijst, Treasurer STAR Management Week 2020
Commercial Relations (2x) As Commissioner of Commercial Relations of the STAR Management Week, you will be the salesperson of the project and be responsible for closing deals with over 50 companies. You will have to establish and implement a strategy to build an inspiring group of companies and match these companies to the different activities. The position of Commissioner of Commercial Relation is for those who are ready to get challenged in selling a major project. A challenge that will result in gaining great experience in sales, communication, and a highly extended network! By doing so, one requires strong communication skills, a proactive mindset, out-of-the-box thinking, and competence in dealing with a high workload.
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Value and sell the project from a commercial perspective and close Dutch and international comapnies using a tailor-made approach Creating and executing an acquisition strategy Meet the recruiters of multinational companies at the negotiation table Safeguard the long-term relationship with companies
“Close the deal now, and start your future.” - Puck van der Bruggen & Koen Etman, Commissioners of Commercial Relations STAR Management Week Committee 2020
Academic Relations (2x) As Commissioner of Academic Relations, you are responsible for creating and organizing all academic events during the STAR Management Week. This includes the speaker events, trainings, and master orientation fair. Given this responsibility, you will have the opportunity to create totally new events and improve existing events. Being Commissioner of Academic Relations, it is very important to use your creativity to think of new concepts and themes for events, to attract and stay in touch with notable people in business, and have organisational skills to realise all events!!
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Create academic events for students to inspire them Organise orientational events in collaboration with RSM Attract noteable keynote speakers Meet the top of business and visit them at their offices Manage these contacts throughout and after the events
“As Commissioner of Speakers you are in charge of a broad variety of tasks. There is a lot of space for creativity, which is what makes the
speakers function so fun. Starting off with creating different formats for the events from scratch is very challenging and exciting. Besides, inviting the top of business to your event and getting the opportunity to visit them at their offices, is not a thing you usually do as a student. This year we had the challenge of organizing our events online because of COVID-19, which made us look at our events in a different way and caused us to change the formats completely. In the end it was really rewarding to see all our events come to life.” - Lynn de Boer & Anne van Lier, Comissioners of Academic Relations STAR Management Week Committee 2020
Marketing As Commissioner of Marketing of the STAR Management Week, you will be the communicator of the project. You will build towards a professional marketing campaign together with an external specialized marketing agency. Through this campaign, you can communicate the project and its activities to the participating students and companies in the most attractive way. The function of marketing requires an analytical and creative mind to define the market, set the project apart from competitors, to involve all participants, and to be persuasive.
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Create a successful marketing strategy Communicate with all stakeholders about the marketing Select a marketing agency and set up a new campaign with them Manage the marketing budget and being in charge of all marketing materials Execute a marketing plan in a persuasive way Manage the event’s social media channels
“The opportunity to use my creativity is what I enjoyed the most during my time as Commissioner of Marketing. There are so many ways to reach RSM students and it is an exciting challenge to find the best way to do so. I worked together with a professional design agency to create a new identity for the STAR Management Week, upgraded the social media pages, and created a new marketing strategy for a COVID19-proof approach. You get a lot of freedom and this is THE position within the SMW to leave your mark.” - Jesper Goudswaard, Commissioner of Marketing, STAR Management Week Committee 2020
Events As Commissioner of Events of the STAR Management Week you will be responsible for the operational side of the event. You will be responsible for the planning, logistics, locations, operations and the event itself. At early stages you will make arrangements for locations and also support your team on functional areas. Later on your main task will be to make preparations for the event, like a minute-to-minute planning. During the event itself you are the organizational center on whom everyone relies. The function of Commissioner of Events is all about turning all the separate parts of work into one great event.
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Make a minute-to-minute planning for the entire event Keep an overview of the plan of action during the event Make arrangements for all facilities, catering and communication systems Manage the crew, board and committee during the event Ensure that the execution of the event runs smoothly
“From the beginning of the STAR Management Week, you have an overview of the entire event. Being able to plan all the activities and manage all the logistics makes the event tangible from the start. Thereby, you will get in contact with a lot of external parties, which makes you able to improve your negotiation skills. It is so much fun to guide your committee through the event and finally see what you have worked so hard for in eight months! - Laura van Huizen. Commissioner of Events, STAR Management Week Committee 2020
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