AIESEC UK Booklet_Join to Lead For Youth

SET YOURSELF ON A JOURNEY WITH THE WORLD’S LARGEST YOUTH ORGANISATION

Welcome to AIESEC We are the largest youth-led organisation in the world.

We strive to achieve peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential by activating leadership qualities in youth through learning from practical experiences in challenging environments. Together with our partner organisations, AIESEC facilitates a network of cross-cultural exchanges in the form of volunteering experiences and professional internships.

WHY AIESEC BECOME AN AIESEC MEMBER, LEARN-BY-DOING, AND EXPLORE AND DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL.

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Personal and professional growth Through volunteering and working in teams, you will gain both hard and soft skills while developing practical leadership qualities. These qualities are provided by our unique leadership development model, that has been guiding experiences since our inception in 1948.

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Global Network

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Contribute to society

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Leadership Development

By joining AIESEC you become part of 40,000+ members across 120+ countries and territories. Depending on your ambition and advancing in the organisation, you will have a chance to build connections and lifelong friends via conferences, development opportunities and more.

By being an AIESEC member, all your actions have a direct impact on the people around you. From impacting your own teammates, to driving change initiatives in your communities, the opportunities to shape the world are endless and are entirely up to you.

We believe that leadership is not limited to a formal position, but rather it is a set of qualities and values that any individual can develop. AIESEC allows you to craft an intense learning experience that enables you to increase your self-awareness and solution orientation, develop communication skills in diverse environments and gain a global mindset.

The AIESEC Member Journey THE AIESEC MEMBER

JOURNEY

During your team experience, you will receive a series of practical trainings sessions (e.g. sales pitching, communication etc.) by your local committee for your professional development to empower you to improve your performance in the team. Additionally in the national level, AIESEC UK also runs summits and conferences to train public speaking and training skills and builds a network of trainers to empower others.

TRAINING Once you got accepted as our member, you will be enrolled in a series of induction sessions, from conferences to skills training, so you will be learning the purpose and your role in the organisation, and how you can make an impact in the society.

INDUCTION HERE WE GO

TEAM EXPERIENCE SELECTION

Our selection process are designed not only to recruit the most bright, proactive and entrepreneurial youth, but more importantly it enables candidates to reflect on their strength, values and passion, and become more self-aware.

After induction, you will start your team experience where you will be placed in a challenging environment to work with others to reach an end goal.

From this team experience, you will learn and develop leadership skills (e.g. problem solving, communication skills), and qualities (e.g. solution-oriented) by enabling exchange experiences of others.

Every year, AIESEC UK run 3 national conferences that bring together 900+ young people across 21 universities to connect, develop and learn. We engage with 20+ organisation partners to deliver more than 18 workshops that not only provide professional training, but also provide the platform for youth to address and discuss issues that matter to youth.

CONFERENCES

During your individual meeting with your mentor, you will be coached to set personal development goals and reflect on your personal learning journey from your team experience and training, and thus understand what hard and soft skills you have gained while developing practical leadership qualities.

INDIVIDUAL MEETING

EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE As a members, you are entitled a £75 discount to go onto exchange experiences with AIESEC under the Global Member programme.

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I remembered I join my exchange programme in India. Everyday I watch how people just throw things away, and it was so painful for me to watch it. And once we started talking to people and explain the bigger picture of those actions, they started to do less of the unsustainable action. International exchange allows young people to understand not only what they are passionate about, but also understand how they can impact the world better, then together we can make a better difference in the world

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- Liza, Global Member, June 2012 (Read Liza Stories at: aiesec.co.uk)

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE In AIESEC, we offers thousands of leadership experiences ranging from local to international level. Each of these position changes every year to enable more young people to have the opportunities to successively develop their leadership skills by leading a team. Every year, more than 200 young people are inspired to run for leadership position in our local chapters in AIESEC UK.

HOW TO JOIN US? 1.

SIGN UP AT AIESEC.CO.UK Sign up and apply through our online application form. Your application will then be pre-screened by local teams, Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview and an assessment centre after applications are pre-screened. Please be aware of application deadlines set out by your AIESEC branch.

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ASSESSMENT CENTRE AND INTERVIEW Candidates will be assessed based on our competencies and values during our assessment centre and interview.

The key thing about this process is to allow us to get to know you better and for you to have a taste of what AIESEC is about. It should not be something to stress about and the whole process will be fun and candid!

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INDUCTION CONFERENCE Congratulations! If you have made it this far, you are officially a part of AIESEC! Candidates that make it through our assessment centre and interview will have to attend a compulsory 1 day induction conference where you will get to immerse yourself in the full AIESEC experience and meet new AIESEC members from other universities!

Induction will then continue in your local chapter.