EFR-Business Week Recruitment Booklet

Organise the EFR-Business Week 2013

introduction to the EFR-business week

The EFR-Business Week is one of the most professional and prestigious student organised conferences in Europe. Every year around April, the EFR-Business Week takes place at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and other locations in the Netherlands and Europe. Organised by a committee of six students the EFR-Business Week has proven to be the highlight of the year at Erasmus University Rotterdam and continues to bring in the most prominent global citizens. The 8 o’clock news will show bulletins and numerous newspapers write about this extraordinairy event!

Every committeemember is responsible for 1 day of the EFRBusiness Week like the Opening Day, the Company Days, the

Business Week On Location and the Conference Day. The Commissioner of Marketing is in charge of all the communication towards the students and the Chairman oversees it all and has the final resonsibility.Although everyone has their own tasks, it is very important that you work as a team to make the showpiece of the EFR happen.

Do you want to have the incredible feeling of working towards a common goal, and succeed? Do you want to make friends for life while bringing world leaders to the Erasmus University? Are you up for the challenge? Then apply now for the EFR-Business Week committee 2013!

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Chairman W h AT ’ s

As the chairman of the EFR-Business Week you are the leader, inspirator and motivator of the team. You are the one that will keep the team together. You are the face of your committee, which results in media contacts since the EFR-Business Week is the only event of the EuR to make it to the 8 o’ clock news.

Moreover, you will be the treasurer of the committee. You will stay in touch with the treasurer of the Board and make sure the budget is sound. This means you have to be a strong leader, be responsible, are a good communicator and you must have affinity with numbers. Can you lead the most important committee of the EFR?

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LEAD AnD MOTiVATE COnTACT ThE MEDiA MAkE ThE BuDGET hELp OuT WhERE nEEDED BE ThE FACE OF ThE COMMiTTEE

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`As A ChAiRMAn, i AM TRiGGERED TO GET MOsT OuT OF ThE COMMiTTEE As WELL As OuT OF ALL ThE inDiViDuALs.`

EVELiEn DE WiT, ChAiRMAn 2012

COMMissiOnER OPening DaY

COMMERCiAL COmmissiOner ON LOCATION AND COMPANY DAYS

You will be responsible for the content and the execution of the leading student conference of The netherlands. During the year you will meet extraordinary people that will change your vision of the world completely. While doing this you start convincing speakers and organisations to join you in your noble quest to enlighten the lives of your fellow students in the same way they have enlightened yours. Therefore you need to have bold networking skills, pragmatic creativity and broad interests and capacities. Are you that person?

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As Commercial Commissioner you are responsible for signing the companies for the event. One of you is responsible for the BW On Location, the other for the Company Days.

You will visit all kinds of companies, taking a look behind the scenes and engage in negotiations to collect the money to run the event. Without money all the cool ideas will just be ideas.

The better you perform, the more awesome and prestigious your event can be! Therefore you must have good social, negotiation and persuasion skills. Can you meet the target?

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GET ThE LEADERs OF ThE WORLD TO ThE EuR GET inspiRinG AnD EXTRAORDinARY pEOpLE FiLL ThE AuLA WiTh sTuDEnTs COORDinATE ThE OpEninG DAY iTsELF CREATE An AWEsOME ATMOsphERE

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DEVELOp An ACQuisiTiOn sTRATEGY sAFEGuARD EFR’s COMpAnY nETWORk GET nEW COMpAniEs TO JOin ThE BusinEss WEEk nEGOTiATE GET COnTRACTs siGnED

“ThE EFR-BusinEss WEEk WiLL EXpAnD YOuR hORiZOn AnD iMpROVE YOuR nETWORk AnD skiLLs in A uniQuE WAY!” - JEROEn VERhOEFF, COMMissiOnER BussinEss WEEk On LOCATiOn 2012

“ThE WhOLE pROCEss OF BuiLDinG A GREAT BusinEss WEEk WiTh A BRAnD nEW TEAM hAs LEARnED ME A LOT!” - FRAnk VAn DER knAAp, COMMissiOnER COMpAnY DAYs 2012

“ORGAnisinG ThE OpEninG DAY is LikE LiVinG in A CLOuD OF inspiRATiOn”piETER VAn WiJk, COMMissiOnER OpEninG DAY EFR-BusinEssWEEk 2012

COMMissiOnER COnFerenCe DaY

COMMissiOnER OF marketing

As the Commissioner Conference Day you are responsible for the most interactive day within the EFR-Business Week.

The strength of the Conference Day lays in its intimacy, characterised by its personal setting and contact. At the Conference Day students are given the opportunity to come eye to eye with some of the most powerful business-people, influential politicians and innovative entrepreneurs of today. In order to make this day happen you need to be up to date on the latest news and trends, enthusiastic, flexible and precise. Do you want to enrich student’s lives?

As the Commissioner of Marketing you develop the marketing strategy of the EFR-Business Week.This means you have a broad package of responsibilities and a structured way of working will help you keeping track of all of them. however, creativity is the asset you must have to think of cool marketing stunts and ways to baffle students in order to let them subscribe for the EFRBusiness Week. Besides this, planning, clear deadlines and good communication help you to make the event a success. Can you be creative but structured at the same time?

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inViTE inspiRinG pEOpLE TO ThE EuR FinD An EXCLusiVE LOCATiOn Think OF DisCussiOn suBJECTs CREATE An inTEREsTinG pROGRAMME COORDinATE ThE COnFEREnCE DAY iTsELF

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CREATE ThE MARkETinG sTRATEGY COnTROL ThE WEBsiTE DEsiGn ORGAnisE ThE CLOsinG pARTY BAFFLE sTuDEnTs WiTh YOuR CRAZY iDEAs!

“WORkinG TOGEThER WiTh FiVE OThERs On suCh An AMAZinG pROJECT is An EXpERiEnCE i WOuLD RECOMMEnD TO EVERYOnE” - MiChEL GOEDhART, COMMissiOnER OF MARkETinG 2012

“EnJOY ThE MOMEnT, BECAusE iT is A OnCE in A LiFE TiME EXpERiEnCE!” - MAnOu LOuREns, COMMissiOnER COnFEREnCE DAY 2012

pRACTiCAL inFOrmatiOn FinAnCiAL COMpEnsATiOn since the EFR-Business Week committee is a fulltime endeavor from August until April, the EFR will compensate you financially for your time.

sELECTiOn pROCEss After you have applied you will be invited for an interview. You will be interviewed by two boardmembers of the EFR. We want to know about you, and why you want to apply for which position. After 1 interview you will hear if you are selected for the EFR-Business Week committee 2013!

AppLiCATiOn pROCEss Applying for the EFR-Bussines Week committee is really easy! Go to efr.nl/challenge and upload your C.V. and motivation or send an email to challenge@efr.nl.

MAin COnTACT FOR ALL EFR-BusinEss WEEk AppLiCATiOn QuEsTiOns Diede van kasteren T: 010-4081146 M: 06-58908952 E: challenge@efr.nl. Do not hesitate to call or email her! she will be waiting with a hot cup of coffee to answer all your questions.

WALk BY ThE OFFiCE! Please walk into our office in the V-Building (VB-24) or in the H-Buidling (H16-30). Everyone there will be able to help you!

AppLiCATiOn DEADLinE 6Th OF MAY 2012 C.V. AnD MOTiVATiOn TO ChALLEnGE@EFR.nL

more information informal recruitment drink 12th of April, Siena, 16:00hrs. Do you want to know more about the committee and meet former committee members? Come to the informal recruitment drink the 12th of April!

Economic Faculty Association

Informal Recruitment BBQ 2nd of May, Siena, 16:00hrs. Still haven’t decided yet? Make up your mind and come to the recruitment BBQ on the 2nd of May!

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Application Process Apply by sending your C.V. and motivation to challenge@efr.nl!

Main contact for all application questions Diede van Kasteren T: 010-4081146 M: 06-58908952 E: challenge@efr.nl. Do not hesitate to call or email her! She will be waiting with a hot cup of coffee to answer all your questions.

APPLICATION DEADLINE 6th OF MAY 2012 C.V. and MOTIVATION TO CHALLENGE@EFR.NL

Rotterdam | Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam | The Netherlands Visiting Address Room VB-24 www.efr.nl

for more information check www.efr.nl/ challenge