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Message from sebastiaan
4 Active Members
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Dear Rostra reader, We can look back on a successful start of this academic year. As you may have noticed, the Career Month is in full swing. We started of with the Sefa Conference. Several interesting speakers spoke about this year’s theme: “Power, Corruption and Compliance”. There were also two interesting panel discussions guided by Room for Discussion, our weekly discussion platform in the E-hall. The Sefa Career Month continued with several career events, all aimed at letting students of the specific study fields of the FEB get into contact with their future employer. The Accountancy Tour is held throughout the month, with visits to the Big Four firms as well to several smaller accounting firms. Further, the 36-hours challenge in finance
Masters of Finance just took place with visits to renowned firms like ABN Amro and Kempen & Co. The Consultancy Event and Amsterdam Marketing Challenge both take place at the end of November. The Consultancy Event will consists of solving challenging cases for strategy consultancy firms such as the Boston Consulting Group and Booz & Company, while the Amsterdam Marketing Challenge gives students the chance to get into contact with, among others, Heineken and Unilever. However, not only the Sefa Career Month kept us busy. Our board, which was officially installed last June, has worked all summer long for the demanding months of September and October. During the summer, our famous Faculty Camp gave our new freshman students the possibility to get to know each
Become active and move into another dimension Our active members organize our events; people that are working on the organization of these events in teams, aiming to learn the skills you won’t acquire through studying alone. Gaining these skills and
other before starting their studies. Other introduction activities were organized as well, such as a drink during the Intreeweek and the traditional Kick-Off Event. Further, the new “Zo Goed Als Nieuw” (Z.G.A.N.) is also filled with 22 first-year students, who are going to organize most of our social activities. By doing this, they already gain an extra dimension to their studies in freshman year. This will definitely help them out in their future careers. Throughout their study life, they will gain the experience Sefa offers to our active members. With kind regards, On behalf of the 91th Sefa board, Sebastiaan Klein Chairman Sefa board 2012-2013
experience is proven to be of great importance in your future career. It is a way to change and develop who you are. Sefa is the perfect place to do so; we are an organization with over 4000 members, of which 200 active in organizing one of our 65 events. If you are interested in organizing one of our events, please send an e-mail to hr@sefa.nl. You can find more information on www.sefa.nl.
and their experiences In January Sefa will start the second big recruitment period of the year. Several committees should be filled with new ambitious students. The following committees will be open: Amsterdamse Carrière Dagen, Sefa Career Month, Voluntary Committee, List Sefa, International Student Career Event, International Development Project and several social committees. Four active members would like to share their experiences gained by participating in a Sefa committee:
I am the promoter of the Sefa Career Month. My task is to find out a good way to promote the events of the Career Month. In the beginning you have to be really creative to compose a theme and invent several ways of promotion in this theme. You can be really creative, but your ideas also have to be realistic and convenient. Sometimes that is a difficult combination. When you find out the best plan, there is a new exciting part. You will get in contact with a designer to translate your plans into real promotion material. There will be a lot of adjustments, but finally you and your committee will have a great campaign. Denise Oomen Bachelor Fiscal Economics
As the chairman of the Consultancy Event, I am among others responsible for the overview, planning and weekly meetings of the committee. It is really challenging to manage different opinions so the optimal decisions for the event are made. I check if everybody has done their work and arrange teambuilding activities. When necessary, I jump in to help out the other committee members. Being the chairman of this committee, one of the things I enjoy the most is to see the whole come together. The committee members develop themselves both within their function and as a team. Therefore I would recommend everybody interested in doing something besides their study to do a committee. Sefa has several committees; possibly there is one of interest to you! Wesley Kuiper Bachelor Economics and Business I am the treasurer of the Amsterdam Marketing Challenge. One of my most important tasks is to compose the budgets for the committee. This is a real challenge, since you have to cope with large amounts of money and the expenses change often. Therefore you have to be precise and plan well. Next to this, I was
responsible for the documentation of the contracts of the participating companies. This requires a very structured approach and a disciplined attitude. One of the side tasks I liked most was finding a location, which isn't as simple as it seems. All together I think it will be a great event! Charity Miller Bachelor Economics and Business By being active in the Amsterdamse Carrière Dagen committee, I have developed skills which I use every day during my current job. Skills that you won't acquire through studying alone; working in teams, communication, negotiation and more. Good grades are not enough; you have to prove that you have developed serveral other skills in order to distinguish yourself. This was the main reason for me to become active. After organizing the Amsterdamse Carrière Dagen and being a board member, I'm now working as a Management Trainee at KLM. To be interesting for high-level companies like KLM, active membership is important. Sofie Jansen Past: Amsterdamse Carrière Dagen 2007, Sefa board 2007-2008 Current: Management Traineeship at KLM