1. MCVP Outgoing GCDP
2013-2014
General Questions
1. What is your inner motivation to apply in the MC of AIESEC Romania 2013 – 2014?
I would like you to know that AIESEC is the best thing that has ever happened to me. In my 2 years
of activity I have experienced an extraordinary development. Here is learned to think big, to want more,
to be great and to change the world.
For me the AIESEC experience that I have had this far has been challenging and yet enjoyable. It
has taught me a great deal and really developed me as a person, but I still believe that I have not
learned and experienced all of what AIESEC can offer me. That is why I have decided to go a step further
to take on a bigger challenge and apply for the MC of 13/14 as this will in my opinion not only develop
me further, but also test me to the limits.
2. What is the leadership that the World & Romania is expecting from AIESEC?
In theory, Leadership is "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The leader may or
may not have any formal authority. Students of leadership have produced theories involving traits,
situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among
others. Somebody whom people follow: somebody who guides or directs others.
So, I don’t really believe that World & Romania is expecting a type of leadership from AIESEC. I
consider that leadership is something that you create through your way of being. For me, leadership is
the growth and development of people, is something special in you is something that you believe in and
you strive for it to become better and better in the way that you feel comfortable. Whatever kind of
leader you are, you should be a good one.
2. 3. Having in mind a SWOT analysis for AIESEC in Romania, what is the role of AIESEC in
Romania? Based on that, how can AIESEC in Romania be more relevant?
Strong Weak
Subprograms Decrease of exchange
Numbers of TMP/TLP numbers
The Human resource is working for Our LCs don’t know how
exchange plan (safe / unrealistic
Monthly profit planning )
MC financial stability Nobody reached their
2 International conferences planned objectives
Network visibility The Exchange has not been legalized
Quarterly planning Quality of TMP/TLP
LC consultant Losing the summer peak for exchange
NPS testing by AI => visibility &quality Lack of implementation of OGX
recruitments
Matching bottlenecks
Opportunities Threats
Partnerships with different companies and A small market of students with second
organizations language excellent
Internship accreditation at Universities Low quality on GCDP internships
Romania – UE Country Competitive market in the NGOs sector
EVS Economical crisis
Analyzing the Weak points of AIESEC Romania we can notice that the organization has to be oriented
towards quality and taking action. Considering our exchange orientation I believe it’s time to focus on
the quality of products we deliver and the quality of our members. In order to increase our relevance in
the society I believe we need to open up to the external environment to a higher decree. It’s highly
important to know our market but it’s even more important for the market to know us by the quality of
our products.
My opinion is that the LCs in the country need to be educated to strive for
excellence not just settle with the concept that volunteering is enough. There is a
thin line between real development and volunteering just for the sake of it and I
think that we are all aware on which side we need to be.
3. 4. AIESEC Romania is halfway towards our 2015 midterm ambition. Evaluate our key
achievements from 2010 and key things that should happen in the next 3 years.
I consider that the most important thing in the next term is to continue what MC 12/13 started.
The fact that our final product is Exchange but this should be clear for every member. Every
AIESEC Romania member should understand why are we doing Exchange. Also we should
continue with One Team vision because this make us believe that we are not singles…we work in
a big Team with special people who can always help us.
• Growing physical & virtual reach
• AIESEC to become a larger platform, to engage more young people with
AIESEC, our purpose and our values, through more connection apart from
Global Youth directly join in our core programs, thus involving more incredible and
Voice diversified youth voice.
• Collaborative environment
• Cross-generation impact
Positive • More focus on product evolution for empowering high-quality AIESEC
impact experience
• Across sectors
• To be market leader in developing responsible & entrepreneurial leadership
First-chioce • To have collaborative market presence, common value in relation and active
customer engagement
partner
Engage & Develop Every Young People in the World
As a value-based platform driven by youth, AIESEC 2015 strives for greater relative impact for the youth,
for the cross-sector external partners and for the society. AIESEC will become a platform closely
connected to the world and society through more diverse way, including engaging more youth, driving
collaboration with external customers and cross-generation impact on society.
4. Key achievements Things that should happen in the next 3 years
Mindset on Exchange - We need something that is Mindset on Exchange - the results will be visible
powerful in the Market who makes us more starting April as the education stage took it's time.
recognized about our purpose and place in the Even though it took a while I'm sure education will
world yield the expected results
Engagement stage - The main advantage of EwA is Engagement stage - the LCs need to understand
the fact that it facilitates the recruitment process the advantages of this stage by analyzing it's
throughout better advertising and early effects in Galati, where it has been successfully
preparation. Better advertising is obtain when applied. Once they acknowledge it's usefulness I
instead of a brief 5 minutes chat over an info-desk am sure they will adapt it
you get to show potential AIESEC members some
of the things they are going to learn and the way
day are going to learn it. Instead of losing a couple
of weeks after the recruitment process to prepare
the new members you now have to work with
people who have already been acquainted to
AIESEC.
NPS – the reason is to provide better experiences. NPS - the implementation of the NPS in all the
We can measure quality in our delivery and LCs and a centralized analysis at National level will
understanding what people wants. help us evaluate the quality of our organization
5. What will be the changes that will increase the volume of AIESEC in Romania ELD
realizations for2013 – 2014 term (have in mind the connection between our products
and external environment).
National preparation plan for TMP/TLP
wanna be
Transition plan for every TL
Create relevant projects for the external
environment: it fulfills the student’s
needs, it’s easier promoted, gets more
support. =>AIESEC gets branded as
provider of a certain type of projects and
TMP & TLP is searched by students for that certain
field.
Goal setting system: members motivated,
5. aware of their strengths, not afraid to take
leadership opportunities and prepared to
have initiative in the organization.
Engagement stage
ASSESSMENT!
Search for countries that have projects in
the same period as we do, in this way we
can establish international partnerships
both on incoming and outgoing GCDP.
Strategic partnerships at local level (NGOs,
cultural center, Erasmus, Work and Travel
)
GIP & GCDP National Cultural preparation, ICPS
Knowledge about supply and demand.
Targeted recruitments.
For GIP Incoming we should focus to know
better our market, the platform what EPs
are available, with which because we
should know what we can.
6. What will AIESEC in Romania remember about 2013 – 2014 term? Describe which will
be the key milestones you commit to strive for during next term.
Firstly, I see AIESEC Romania as a powerful organization, as an organization recognize by institutions for
all the effort it’s determining every day in develop sustainably initiatives in our country.
Secondly, I see a country united in action, hardworking who spends time both planning and acting
(because acting without planning is as useless as planning without acting), where teamwork helps us
build the world we want to live in. This can seem a dream but I am sure that starting now and continuing
what the current MC start we can build this future for our lovely organization.
Key milestones:
National direction for intense member preparation with focus on attitude and mindset on
exchange
Each LC to have clear and concrete objectives
Individual LC tracking
Recruitment alignment
Orientation on outgoing because this is the sector where our programs
should be market leaders
6. 7. In 2014, AIESEC in Romania is the winner of the Global Excellence UBS award. Explain
why.
In 2014, thanks to a significantly increase on GIP & GCDP both numerically and NPS wise, AIESEC
Romania received the UBS. We all know that we have been very close to winning this prize for some
time now, as we had excellent results with TMP and TLP experiences, our financial resources were
plentiful and the organization was recognized as the strongest in the country throughout the numerous
external prizes we had received during the years. The only things we have been missing in comparison
to other countries were the quality and numbers of the exchange, both incoming and outgoing. We owe
our previous MC everything, because they were the ones who had to courage to change the national
direction towards exchange, Continuing in this direction, we managed to increase the figures, but
importantly not just a few LCs sustain these figures, all our LCs share their contributions, thanks to
objectives and good directions set by each LC.