OCTOBER 2011
THE FORUM
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YLIAC Overview Johar Baru Project How t0 Plan Your Career? Steve Jobs in Focus
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Member of the Month
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YLIAC Gatherings How to Network Effectively? Fun Corner YLIAC Announcement
Editor in Chief Dessy Kadriyani
Article Contributors
The Team
Angga Dwi Martha Dwi Andi Rohmatika Hasrul Eka Putra Stephani Octavia Valent Valentina Yola Rosa Bella
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Editor’s Foreword
My Two Cents Welcome to the month of November even in the ancient times, the word (ok not yet, but in a week time). For has already been synonymized with those still in school, be prepared, freedom of speech. exam is coming! Thus, the name for our publication For those in the workforce, beware was chosen; because as leaders, not of the year end. Prepare for more only we need to lead and manage overtime duty as firms rushing to people, but also to voice our opinion meet their annual targets. on various issues. But work and study (and jokes) aside, Young Leader for Indonesia Alumni Community (YLIAC) is proud to present you our first regular publication ever, The Forum!
In the first edition, we are gonna update you with what’s going on with YLIAC; how are the project, gatherings and any future planned events, etc. There are also leadership articles featuring prominent business leader OK why The Forum? and what is it for? and useful “How-to” series. Well, to tell you the truth the name By the way, we are still figuring came from 1% creativity and 99% things out, so feel free to give us practicality. any feedback to improve future The Forum. Also if you want to contribute First, Forum is a meaningful word articles/skills/time, do not hesitate to for all YLIACians since we have gone contact one of us. through rigorous three forums during YLI program. I think I have written enough for this most boring part of The Forum (haha). Second, when I googled Forum, the So go ahead and scroll down. results are representing what exactly this publication is trying to achieve: Last but not least, keep making discussion, voices, messages. And impact, young leaders!
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Who are we? We are a community of young leaders from all over Indonesia connected under alumni bond of Young Leaders for Indonesia
What is our goal? To create sustainable impact for Indonesia community while continuing to develop young leaders through professional development and networking How is our community organized? We have two main divisions to help us achieving our goals: Networking (Internal) and Project (External). In Networking, we make sure that we grow community leadership and friendship through gatherings, bulletins, and professional self-development programs. We aspire to be the connector and communicator for our members. Through series of internal gatherings, we aim to foster the bond between young leaders in our community. With careful planning and innovative concept, we created a platform where people connection could be easily made and grown. As communicator of the community, we bring the most updated information to the people through regular publications as well as social media. In Project, we created a Social Business that empowers the unemployed through economic and welfare improvement. This year, we are planning on doing a community development at Johar Baru, Jakarta. The vision of this project is to decrease their unemployment rate as well as adding values to the human capital. Our missions to achieve that vision are to establish a small industry that can generate sustainable income and equip the community with various skills through a series of training. YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 6
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Top Industries that YLIAC Alumni are in...
Financial Services Media
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Who’s behind
the current YLIAC Committee?
First of all, in case you’re wondering, no, they’re not narcistic. We just believe that these people should be given recognition for all the hardwork they’ve been putting in for YLIAC in these 3 months (and ongoing). So here is their profile :) President Windy Natriavi She is an undergraduate student in University of Indonesia, majoring in Management. Overseeing all networking efforts and social business project, she lead the strategic move of YLIAC.
Vice President (Networking) Dessy Kadriyani She is an undergraduate student in National University of Singapore, majoring in Computer Engineering. Overseeing the networking division, she is in charge for internal communication and members bonding of the organization.
Vice President (Project) Jesssica Angkasa She graduated from University of Pelita Harapan, majoring in International Relation. Planning and overseeing all aspects of social business project, she lead YLIAC team to make impact on community.
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Regional Leaders
They are in charge for member activities and projects in the various regions of YLIAC. Currently there are 7 different regions for our community: Jakarta, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Sumatera, East Indonesia and Overseas.
Jakarta Valent Valentina She graduated from University of Indonesia, majoring in Chemical Engineering. In charge of the largest region of YLIAC, she organized gatherings for Jakarta. She is also the Co-Head of Forum 4.
Bandung Reswita Dery She is an undergraduate student in Institut Teknologi Bandung, majoring in Pharmacy. In charge of the largest city in West Java, she organized events for Bandung. She is also the Co-Head of Forum 4.
Jogjakarta Dwi Andi Rohmatika She is an undergraduate student in Gajah Mada University, majoring in Economics. Overseeing gathering and project in Jogjakarta is her responsibility.
Sumatera Angga Dwi Martha He is an undergraduate student in Universitas Negeri Padang, majoring in Public Administration. He lead the YLIAC Roadshow project in Sumatera.
East Indonesia Hasrul Eka Putra He is an undergraduate student in Universitas Hasanudin, majoring in International Relations. He was in charge for YLIAC East Indonesia region. YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 9
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Project Team
There are in total 18 people invoved in YLIAC project, divided into 4 big division: Operational, Marketing, Human Resources and Financial. Here is the profiles of the head of each division.
Operational Head Ivan Hadinata He graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung, majoring in Chemical Engineering. Overseeing the project operation from selecting locations to developing products.
Marketing Head Stephani Octavia She is an undergraduate student in Prasetya Mulya Business School majoring in Business Management. Responsible for project marketing from raising sponsorship to external communication.
Human Resources Head Rainintha Siahaan She is an undergraduate student in University of Indonesia, majoring in International Relations. She’s in charge of the recruitment, as well as team bonding process.
Financial Head Isabella Ruth Sarma She graduated from University of Indonesia, majoring in Accounting. Responsible of managing the finance of the whole project.
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yliac
announcement
Wanted: Technology Chief
Forum 4 Open Recruitment!
YLIAC is looking for a dedicated member to join our team as technology officer who will take care our online movement, including websites and social media.
YLI Forum is back! This time it’s organized by us and for us. We need more amazing people to be part of our organizing committee, especially on program and logistics part.
Interested persons, please send email Please contact Valent (emovalent@ to youngleadersforindonesia@gmail. yahoo.com) or Wita (reswitadery@ com gmail.com) for more information.
Wanted: YLIAC Layout Designers
Creative people out there, come on YLIAC tweeps, please dont forget to join our regular bulletin team to design follow our official Twitter yah @yli_ac future YLIAC publications. Interested persons please send email to dessy. General Enquiries kadriyani@gmail.com Please send any enquiries to youngleadersforindonesia@gmail.com
Article Submission
Don’t surpress your writing talent, let the world know that you have amazing ideas to share. We’re receiving articles, message, reviews etc for our next issues. Contact DA (andihime@gmail. com) to find out more!
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Social Business Project Update
YLIAC Johar Baru written by Stephanie Octavia Marketing Head of YLIAC Johar Baru Project Hi Guys, how you guys doing? Hope you guys are in a great condition As we all know that we, Young Leaders for Indonesia, are chosen to carry out a very big responsibility, which is Unleash our beloved country, Indonesia. There are many ways for us to do so, and we can see that many of us still do it in behalf of Indonesia. So, what can a Young Leaders for Indonesia Alumni Community can do? It is not small, but it is not big either. Through this bulletin, we want to tell all of you what we, as a whole (read: YLIAC) have been doing for the last 2 months for our Indonesia â˜ş
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Project Overview
Progress
We are planning on doing a community So far, we have been doing a market development in Johar Baru, Jakarta. research and hope that it will be This place was chosen because Johar done in this week before our first Baru is one of the poorest place in team bonding (yey!). In our first team Jakarta. Sixty percent of the people bonding day, we’re visiting Johar Baru in Johar Baru are unemployed and to talk about this project to Ketua RW they don’t have enough house to there and ask if they are interested with our project. accomodate themselves. Those reasons are the basis of this Before we go too deep, just for you little community development project. know, we have two different types of products which are soya milk and To make this project come true, we tofu nugget. are led by our Chief Executive Officer, Jessica Angkasa (YLI Wave 3) and The reasons why we choose soya milk divide our team into 4 teams such as: is because the process is simple, the profit rate is quite high, market size • Operational Team is quite high, and the investment cost • Human Resource Team is low. • Financial Team On the other hand we choose tofu nugget is because the profit rate & • Marketing Team market size is quite high, we have the With this little team and of course expertise (Hendra), we will solve 2 all of your inputs and prayers, we problems simultaneously (tofu waste hope we can make our community at RW 04 and economy at RW06). development project come true! :D
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Marketing Research So, what are we doing in this market research? Basically, marketing team will be the one who do the market research and will give the report later on to Operational Team. We divide our research into 2 phases:
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1. B2B market research: canteen and warung 2. B2C market research: nearest potential consumen (friends and family)
Things that we expect to get from this market research are their opinion about the taste and shape of our current product, the price that they want to spend for our current product, and other random comments that we can gain regarding to this product. So far, we have done the first phase and hoping to get the second phase done by this week.
Which products to choose? Tofu Nugget
This simple-first-part-of-conclusion has been delivered to Operational Team and they’re supposed to do the product development by now.
• One of a canteen owner don’t need a very good taste, but they need The decision of what product we want cheap and big size products (and, oh to sell is still be an issue in the team. well, of course, TEMPTING! :D). • One of a warung owner thought that it was oncom (yes, sir the material is just the same with oncom but it is NOT! I guess we really need to develop the shape of our product ASAP)
Soya Milk •
The taste is uber good!
We still have to make many analysis so that we can make the best decision at the end In addition, there’s an idea about whether we want to make a dry product, such as keripik since it is much easier to sell (last longer). Any input guys? ;) YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 15
Our Next Plan
Who’s Involved?
The next plan is we do the market research until this weekend and visit Johar Baru to explore the place more plus do an offering to them about this project.
As I have mentioned before, we are led by Jessica (W3) and we divide our team into 4:
Our team is expecting to finish our product development 2 weeks from now and then we are going to do our one last phase of market research (B2B dan B2C). Oh, and actually we have to discuss about our marketing strategies such as 4P (products, price, placement, and promotional) and STP (Segmenting, Targeting, and Positioning) of the products in market and our future branding activities. We will conduct some research for few products in market, let’s say Maicih, about why and how they can be so successful and well known. After the last phase of our market research, we can predict the demand of the market. After that we will discuss it later on with Operational Team so we can make the “supply and demand” of our product, then will be processed into budgeting plan (initial investment and initial operational budgeting). This budgeting plan, hopefully, will be given to Financial Team at the end of first week of November.
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1.Operational Team: Ivan (W2), Igna (W3), Adit (W3), Bella (W2), Hendra (W3), and Ian (W3) 2.Marketing Team: Stephanie (W3), Naimah (W3), Endi (W3), and Hanif (W3) 3.Human Resource Team: Rain (W3), Dacil (W2), and Novia (W1) 4.Financial Team: Ibel (W3), Adi (W2), Amel (W2), and Laila (W3) This team is only a representative and we are nothing without all of your inputs, comments, and of course your support! ☺
Let’s unleash Indonesia through this community development project!
Any feedback is very much appreciated. Please send us your input to youngleadersforindonesia@gmail.com
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How to better
Plan Your Career? by Hasrul Eka Putra
Regional Leader (East Indonesia)
As you always hear, life is a plan. Planning ability should be mastered by all leaders. Because fail to plan is planning the failure. In personal life plan, we always faced by challenges, problems, and dilemma of life. Thus making plan help we minimize the risk of failure. Here we will explore some tips on how to plan a career. There is a big difference between a career plan and searching for a job to make a living.
give you the chance to earn, but will provide you with a sense of personal fulfillment that When a person takes on simply having a job a job, it is something cannot bring. he needs to do to be able to earn or to gain So how do I start? working experience for something much bigger Begin making your career plan by identifying all of ahead. your special skills and A career, on the other abilities. hand, is something you would choose to do Start setting goals for yourself, and proceed personally. to discover all of the Making a career plan options available for allows you to take you to achieve these control of your destiny goals. and to select a career path that would not only YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 18
But it is not enough to simply formulate all of these details in your head. More importantly, they must be written down so that nothing is forgotten or taken for granted. You must have something concrete to refer to so that you can maintain total focus on where it is you are going and what you need to do to get there. Study the following tips to help you write your own career plan.
Title Make a personal assessment of yourself. 1. The first step involves making a thorough assessment of who you really are and what it is you can and cannot do.
Make a list of both your Work towards your short and long term goals. career objectives. 1. This may be the most 1.Do not set impossible difficult part of your goals for yourself. On career plan. Remember the other hand, do not that writing it down is make them so simple only the start. What you 2. Identify what your that you under-estimate do after is what will special skills are and your own value. count. where your talents lie. 2. Consider what you 2. Aim to meet all of 3. Be very honest with yourself since this your personal career you are working at.
picture yourself doing a year from now. Go further into the future and find out how you 4. Write all of these would like to see down as they will play a yourself and where you major role in your career would want to be. choice. 3.Be realistic with your objectives. It will not be so difficult if you are able to honestly recognize your capabilities. Aim to improve yourself on certain aspects that you know can help you achieve what you are setting out to do.
your goals according to what you have written down. Should you miss out on something along the way, you need not worry too much. This does happen and all you will have to do is re-examine your plan and start on working on your goals over. This may entail a bit of revising on your part. 3. The important thing is that you are making a positive action towards achieving your career goals.
Creating a career plan may be one of the best things you could do for yourself, and the first step to a bright and fulfilling future ahead. So, lets be a good planner! YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 19
Steve Jobs: “Death Is Very Likely the Single Best Invention of Life� source: http://www.gizmodo.com | by Valent Valentina
Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away on October 5th, after living and impacting this world for 56 years.
was a myth made man.
He changed the way movies are made, the way music is sold, the way stories are told, and the very way we interact with the world around us. He helped us work, and gave us new ways to play. He
built personal computer, the Apple I. He drove development of the Mac, understanding that it was the future of computers. He brought in a grown up to run the company. And that grown up forced him out
His life story is familiar, but it deserves repeating. He was given up for adoption by his unmarried parents. He grew up in California, and was very much a product of that place and time. He took drugs. He got into phone hacking. Mr. Jobs had battled Both were precursors to pancreatic cancer and what would always be several years ago received his interest: changing the a liver transplant. In August status quo. 2011, Mr. Jobs stepped In 1976 he started Apple down as chief executive, in a garage. Together handling the reins to with Steve Wozniak, he longtime deputy, Tim Cook. shipped the first true fully-
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of the company that he built and into the wilderness.
They will remember his flaws, too. In the workplace he's often While he was gone, he been described as started NeXT computer. temperamental and even petulant. He The NeXT operating could be arrogant and system would form unforgiving. He was not the underpinnings of Apple's OS X, and iOS. a god. He was simply He also started the best a man. Yet for all his faults, he changed movie studio of the the world. He made it past 30 years. Pixar's better. films were innovative, to be sure. It pushed Following are some the boundaries of CGI statement made by Jobs to such an extent that about life and death. even today its early When I was 17, I read films still look great. a quote that went But technology is only a something like: “If you tool. As with everything live each day as if it else he understood that was your last, someday great technology alone you’ll most certainly is not enough. It must be right.” It made an be human to have an impression on me, and impact. Pixar movies since then, for the past tell stories. They make 33 years, I have looked grown men cry. in the mirror every
to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s He became a family morning and asked thinking. Don’t let man. He reunited with myself: “If today were his biological mother, the last day of my life, the noise of others’ opinions drown out and his sister, the would I want to do writer Mona Simpson. what I am about to do your own inner voice. And the most important He married. He had today?” And whenever is have the courage children. He was, by the answer has been all accounts, a great “No” for too many days to follow your heart dad. It was his role as in a row, I know I need and intuition. They somehow already know husband and father that to change something. what you truly want to helped drive his second No one wants to die. become. Everything else act at Apple. Even people who want is secondary. YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 21
Member of The Month
Pradita Astarina Pradita Astarina is an alumni from YLI Wave 2. She finished her undergraduated study in University of Indonesia, majoring in Accounting. She currently works in UKP4 (Unit Kerja President bidang Pengawasan dan Pengendalian Pembangunan) and has been involved in several national development projects. She was the first president of YLIAC who has set the first stone for the community. Dita will share some of her experiences as former YLIAC president to all reader of The Forum. Hi Dita, first of all thank you for your time. My first question will be about your motivation in YLIAC. Why do you decide to contribute very actively in the community?
Furthermore, my current job is really close to real development challenges in our country. It makes me realize that I should do something, even it was started by a small step to fix the big problems. Hopefully, it will The most priceless contribution is create a contagious effect and can be when you invest your time for some replicated by others. moments, focusing on creating impact for your surroundings. This is the Furthermore, I have realized that no essence of your existence as a human matter how smart or good you are, you being. If you don’t have any impact are still nobody until you have used for your surroundings, it’s nonsense. part of your potensial and capabilities That’s why I actively get involved in to empower others. God enables us to YLIAC. do something so we should embrace
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those unlucky people.
Well said! So how’s your experience with YLIAC? It’s really good, if you want to become a leader that people admire and respect, you must become a person of significance. People don’t follow you because you take from them, they follow you because what “It’s really good, you give to them.
if you want to become a leader that people admire and respect, but you must become a person of significance”
I started to lead YLIAC in November 2010. “Pay It Forward Mechanism”, perhaps, is the best phrase to depict why I was willing to lead YLIAC. I have gained and obtained much knowledge and intensive leadership development program from YLI and it was the right time to pay back, no enforcement from other parties. It’s just my “personal call”.
need to prove that you’re the best in everything above the others because they are all leaders. Influential and promising youths. They already know what to do. You don’t have to tell them how to do. Leading the leaders mean you have to be an expert facilitator to gather and collaborate the ideas and smart enough to expand the networks, do strategic thinking analysis, if I may say, what you have to do is connecting the dots. Just throw the strategic things, the grand design. Let them create the details. Let them choose the works based on their passions. Create an egalitarian and flexible structure within the organization. That’s the different between a conventional and modern leader.
As president of a “Young Let every member inspire Leader” community, do you others, spread the positive feel some kind of pressure vibes. of leading the other leaders? “Leading the leaders Or does it motivate you to mean you have to be do better? Of course, it’s challenging. There
really is no
an expert facilitator”
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How is the YLIAC team that you abroad, broaden my networks and collaborated with older and more lead? They are young and ambitious and extremely gifted youths, and they are always thirsty of knowledge and experience. They keep asking, ‘What else is new, what is interesting, where else could we go?’
experience people than me
How about the biggest challenge in your leadership term in YLIAC?
Time and commitment. I must encourage my team to be committed to a project rather than just be Does YLIAC experience enhance your involved in it. People do not follow leadership skill? How? uncommitted leaders. Yes absolutely. It enhances my communication and adaptation Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters including the skills. time that you have committed for They are many leaders out there YLIAC, sometimes it means personal but it's a rare quality to have both sacrifice. passion and a sense of humor, along with brilliance within one person, so at the end of the day, this person can be accepted in every different element and well-adapt in every different occasion in the society. Simply to say, I learn how to structure my thoughts, come up with succinct concept and finally communicate it through effective way. Different audiences mean different way of communication, but it will end up with one final result: to convince them to follow your point of view.
If you could pick only one, what do you think is you biggest achievement with YLIAC? When I finished the projects that had already been started and created partnership with Indonesian students YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 24
For instance, when I have an upsurge workload in the office, on the other hand, I have to attend and lead YLIAC meeting in the weekend or after work hours. As I mention before, time is the most precious thing that you can invest in something. Giving money is good, but giving your 100% commitment is rather difficult unless you really love that thing and do it with sincere heart. If I can say, just a metaphor, I treat YLIAC like my new born baby!
“People don’t follow uncomitted leaders”
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If u could do all over again, what To be honest, I got an internship opportunity abroad during that u wish to change in YLIAC?
Nothing, I believe that every team time, and it was really valuable. member has already given their I really felt confused whether to accept it or not. best contributions After contemplating one month, How do u handle YLIAC in the final interview, I confess to commitments with other things? them, that I couldn’t go because of few things. In my opinion, it is the biggest challenge for myself. I am a typical At that time, I learnt a lot to have person that has so many things in long term commitment and focused my mind. on one thing. I have to finish all the things that had been started. YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 25
Lastly, any tips for fellow YLIAC-ians? This is your turn to make impact, learn from your fellows, and build your networks – both horizontally and vertically. As I have stated before, I really feel convinced that in the next ten years, your current YLIAC fellows are the ones who take charge in this country. Therefore, this is a very promising network. Do not screw it. Use it as much as you can. Optimize it in every possible way. This is a long term investment. Every time you feel tired, you have to think that this is a really good opportunity for you because you can work with the best and the most promising youths across Indonesia. Finally, it’s about the essence of your existence as a human being in this world- to empower others! We should make a difference in the world that we live in.
Thank you so much Dita for your sharing! YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 26
Event series
YLIAC Gatherings Many months have been passed from YLI Forum, and each YLIA already missed each other. Even students in the same university rarely met because they come from different schools (or it is well-known as faculty). So, on the Ramadhan Month this year each region managed to have a reunion together. Lets take a look how this reunion gathering took place in every region then.
Turn to the next page to read the complete coverage of our gatherings in 3 cities ->
by Dwi Andi Rohmatika Regional Leader (Jogjakarta)
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Jogjakarta Late in the afternoon on September 15th, the YLIAC Jogja gathered at Tio Ciu Restaurants at Affandi Road. There were five of us gathered; four from YLIAC Jogja and one from YLIAC Jakarta. At that time, Adi, YLIAC Jakarta, was in his traveling around Jogja and Central Java after so much effort in “escaping campus after four years struggeling”. Although we did not have any “guess star” or what-so-similar back then like what YLIAC Jakarta had, Adi acted like one by being late for about two hours after walking around Malioboro. Hmmh... asking for a treat from him would be a sweet request, eh? So then, he was very welcome. YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 28
Talking about how YLI Forums were conducted back then really brought back memories. Especially since there were Wave 2 and Wave 3 joined. And so, we talked about any BLP we had at that time, because some had similar kind of BLP. However, after hearing the sound of Azan, we were acted crazy for foods. Starting with “es kopyor” I made (if you see the big bowl on the table, then that’s my bowl with es kopyor inside) then we grabbed any kinds of sea foods nearby. Yeah, we were deadly starving. Finishing the last crabs ended that wonderful night. We planned to make another reunion after this since most of the members were in their rural community services at the time. Next time we gonna make it even more happening!
Jakarta
Surabaya
The gathering at La Finestra Jakarta was attended by 13 people on the lovely Sunday, August 14th. The Italian-taste foods were served on that night of YLIAC Jakarta from Wave 1 until Wave 3.
From the west side of Java Island, we move out to the east side: Surabaya! Great to know that Surabaya has 6 people attend the gathering on August 26 at Rumah Makan Bu Rudi, Surabaya.
So then, the chit-chat begins with school, works, projects, and as time pass by, the foods were coming. They were very motivated to plan on the next gathering events with one agenda: YLIAC Workshop through For the next event of gathering, we plan Surabaya and Malang! Woow, you to have more time of fun games and sure boost he mood up, guys! project discussion. Guest speakers are Since YLIAC Surabaya has some also one of most preferred agenda. members from Malang too (and it is Though many people cancelled at very far away from the downtown of last minute, Jakarta gathering was Surabaya), some of them could not very well-planned. Participants had make it but it was a very excellent a good time sharing and discussing start for another step of change! with fellow YLIAC-ians. Many agendas went out well, for example brainstorming ideas of YLIAC projects, games, and of course the foods itself; what can beat Italian food in lovely Sunday night?
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How To Network Effectively
How to
Network Effectively? Job networking is arguably the best way to land you a job immediately after completing your university. Fortunately, it is way easier for students to network very well compared to any other group of people. One is never too late to begin networking, but it is highly recommended to start networking from as early on in your college career. There are numerous ways to accomplish job networking but its up to you to decide which method best suits you. Many networking experts from various professional backgrounds say that majority of students have no idea how to network effectively and viewing networking as a tool to assist them in securing jobs. If the outcome of your YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 30
networking is only a pile of business cards stack in the corner of your room ,then its about time you re- evaluate you networking skills in order to have more potential employers interested in hiring you. Ok so how do I do it?
Attend Alumni Events Job networking is very easy especially during alumni events which are happening every year. This will be beneficial to you after you have graduated. Most alumni remember the harrowing experience they went through
looking for a job so they will understand your fears and they will point you to the right direction just so you don’t hassle so much. Make sure you take the contacts of the alumni you meet with and keep in touch through out till you finish school since they might know some organizations and they will be able to put a good word for you. Participate in School Activities or Community Affairs By doing this you stand a chance of meeting professionals outside school. YLI Forum is one of this. Job networking isn’t just a mere practice of looking for a job but to also learn more about the professional world. Always learn to volunteer in non- profit organizations. By meeting people already in a job you are interested in , you will be able to get insight from them on how to get that job.
Internships It is highly advisable to take an internship during school long vacations in order to increase your job networking. Internships assist you to have hands on experience in the field of your choice and also to interact with seasoned professionals in your field. Try to get a contact of at least one professional and keep in touch even after you have completed your internship. Students should approach networking with only two motives in their mind, getting to know different scores of people and also letting them to know you too. We recommend the following few guidelines to help you network effectively: • Give out and receive information: - networking works in two ways. When you meet somebody, ask him/her about his business or company
and then take your turn to tell him/her about what you have studied for or professional qualification that you have. • Try to estimate the worth of your contract: - it’s a fact that you can’t network effectively with every one. After meeting someone, you have to judge for your self whether it was worth it to meet that person and is it beneficial to strike a relationship with that person. • Maintenance: - as your network widens its base, you should re-evaluate the people in your network quite frequently. Keep your networks close since you never know when they will need help from you or when you will require their assistance. In a nutshell, it’s important to act nice to every body because you never know the future.
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Title Fun Corner Office Truth
1. If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success 2. A thing not worth doing isn’t worth doing well 3. If a thing is worth doing, it would have been done already 4. Hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it? 5. I don’t have a solution, but I do admire the problem 6. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job 7. Is reading in the bathroom considered multi-tasking? 8. Seen it all. Done it all. Can’t remember most of it 9. 43% of all statistics are worthless 10. MEETINGS, A practical alternative to work
Yeah, right!
New Trainee
“What is the meaning of this?” the manager asked. “When you applied for the job, you told us you had 5 years’ experience. Now we discover this is the first job you’ve ever had.”
The voice from the other side responded,”You fool you’ve dialed the wrong extension! Do you know who you’re talking to, dumbo?”
“Well,” the young man said, “in your ad you said you wanted somebody with imagination.”
“It’s the Managing Director of the company, you fool!”
Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel manager’s office.
The Travel Slogan
VENI, VEDI, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. *source: various Internet sites YLIAC Bulletin | October 2011 | 32
A Man joined a big Multi National Company as a trainee. On his first day he dialed the pantry and shouted into the phone, “Get me a coffee quickly!”
“No”, replied the trainee.
The man shouted back, “And do you know who YOU are talking to, you fool?” “No.”, replied the Managing Director. “Good!”, replied the trainee and put down the phone!
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