How can you make your AIESEC info events more effective?

1. Welcome to our
Information Meeting!
Info Events: th e DOs and DONTs

2. Your main sales pitch.
We should understand the students first...

3. What does she want??
Where does she want to go to??
What are her biggest nightmares??
What are her excuses not to go??
What are the questions she has??
How can AIESEC help her??

4. stud ent
of a
• Failing exams
out of u niversity
•D ropping
Not getti ng a job
• ployed
Bei ng unem ave one
•
ing a job if they h
• Los on their parents
• De pendant
support
t having any fun
• No

5. My excuses.....
it
• Volunteer abroad? this is bullsh
• Don’t have free time
• It's not the right time
• it doesn't pay a salary
• I have my exams/studies
• I have a dissertation to write
iend
• Can't leave my girlfriend/boyfr
• It's not prestigious
s
• Doesn't offer the right countrie
• I don't want to go alone
• I have a job
• Parents will not agree with this
• Don't want to leave my friends
pay?
• It's too expensive. Why should I

6. WHAT IS AIESEC? activity
•Global
•Present in 113 countries
•World’s largest student-run organisation
•Non-political
•Not-for-profit FEATURES
•24,000 leadership experiences
•20,000 international exchange
•AIESEC does not discriminate
•Peace & fulfillment of humankind’s potential
•international platform for leadership
•Positive impact

7. AIESEC IS AWESOME!
GO ON EXCHANGE!

8. What are the BENEFITS of
AIESEC? activity
• Expand your outlook
• Improve your English
• Explore new countries and cultures
• Make new friends
• Expand your professional network
• Get some international work experience
• Develop yourself by having challenges
• Improve your CV
• Develop your career skills
• Make an impact on the community
• All in all, it can help you get a job and have a better career
(AND see the world AND make an impact AND...)

9. •What’s the price?
•Where can I go? Can I go to the US?
•What would I do?
•What is the selection process?
•What happens to my money if I don’t
get matched?
• ...

11. DELIVERY

12. Why???...
Long Introductions
Weird desktops
Technical failures
Ad mitting you’re nervous
Apologies

14. MESSAGE
• If you want to experience a new culture before you start your
career, go on exchange with AIESEC.
• By going on exchange with AIESEC, you will develop your
leadership skills, which will help you get a great career.
• The unemployment is huge in Lithuania but you can easily get
some international work experience with AIESEC.
• Don’t listen to your mother, go on Exchange!

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8 weeks
Teach English, share your culture
Accommodation and Food provided
500 LT application fee

16. 1) Define their worst nightmare (create a problem)
2) Talk about their GOALS (what are their dreams?)
3) Show how AIESEC can help them
3.1) Show the benefits of AIESEC
3.2) Deny their excuses
3.3) Answer their questions

17. CHECKLIST
☐ Define the biggest problems/nightmares that students have
☐ Write down the message as a one-sentence pitch (it should
solve the problems of students!)
☐ Deny/reject their main excuses in the presentation
☐ Show a few real examples of different projects
☐ If you do have a guest-speaker, tell him what to say! (must
relate to your message!)
☐ Give social evidence of exchange (past EPs/photos/videos)
☐ Sell not on the features but on the benefits of @/exchange
☐ Avoid boring templates, use visuals
☐ Answer the most common questions in the presentation
☐ And don’t forget to smile :)

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http://issuu.com/adomasbaltagalvis/
docs/powerful_presentations
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