InterCultural Preparation Seminar

Well, it's ICPS time, yet again! This time we're going to the seaside, in Năvodari, at the Delfinul camp between May 1^st an 4^th!

It's going to be my first time at the seaside so I think it's going to be even more fun. The bad thing is that after this ICPS I will not be able to get the no-way!-you-must-be-kidding-me!!! reaction from the people finding out that I've never seen the see in my life. :D

The not so good news is that the weather in Constanta isn't going to be one of the best in that period... :-s

Too bad that even though there will be plenty of delegates at the Conference / Seminar, from some point of view, I will be alone... alone with the sea...

The Volunteer's Week

The Volunteer's Week (Săptămâna Națională a Voluntariatului) is now over. During this national event, every volunteer organization prepared one more more events during this week (April 14 - 20).

AIESEC Iași has contributed with a couple of free trainings for the volunteers, and also joined in at the march and at the exhibition from Sunday. Speaking of the exhibition, here are a few photos:

Well done Isa! Congrats for coordinating the events so well!

Career Days 2008

After we have seen the video and after attending Zilele Carierei 2008, it is now time for the outcome. Here is part of what I've seen: workshops, company presentations, recruiters... Full days, Career Days 2008... in a few images:

Jim Bagnola on Leading Teams

On May 13^th, in Bucharest, there will be an event on Leadership and Team Management: Leading Teams.

It was nice to hear Jim Bagnola, Senior Partner at The Leadership Group and the main speaker at the event mention AIESEC's role in activating leadership:

Failure #1: Marius vs. Talent Manager - 0:1

For a week now, I've started hunting for an opportunity to evolve both professionally and culturally. After my Leadership stage, now I want to go in eXchange! ...just that today I got an email saying:

Hello, thank you for the applications.

I take it that this person can work for only 20-24 weeks (april-october). As we discussed before we need people who can commit for longer periods than that, a few years preferably. I know that AIESEC has a maximum amount of months for the internship, so people having this maximum as their preferred maximum duration are the people we are looking for. Job requisites for under one year can be discarded in the future.

With best regards,
Christian XXXX, Talent Manager

OK mr. Talent Manager, than why is it written in the Job Description (JD) that the duration is preferably between 24 and 78 weeks?!?

Mr. Talent Manager, do you know that to discard means to throw something away: to get rid of something that is not wanted or needed? Is that the way to manage talents?

Too bad, you lost a guy (probably not a talent) that really is interested in:

• Web 2.0 development;
• Extreme programming and Agile development;
• Test driven development;
• PHP, MySql and AJAX programming.

Funny thing, until now I was only worried about not matching a JD on professional matters...

New Members!

Yesterday we had the Fist Meeting with the new members. Yet again I'm the buddy of 4 almost-ready-for-exchange new members! It was fun, even though I missed my First Meeting back in my days. I especially feel sorry for not attending the Party for the new members back then... I bet the October 2006 guys remember what I'm talking about! :D

Yesterday we also had plenty of roll calls, among them one very close to my heart: "If I Were Not Upon the Stage"...

Today I saw that it has quite of a history:

Earth Hour 2008

It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change?

Beyond turning off your lights for one hour at 8pm March 29, 2008, there are lots of things you can do to make Earth Hour 2008 an even greater success. Here are just a few to get you started.

As AIESEC-ers, we should be the change we want to see in the world!