STEP UP - CHAP 1: VERY FIRST IMPRESSION

When I was a little child, I have dreamed about having a foreign friend which I could show off to my classmate. This dream has come along with me until I went to the university however my purpose has changed. I want to discover new lands of culture as the preparation for me to be a part of the global world. Foreigners are so different from me not only about appearance but also the behavior, the life-style and so on. That’s also the main reason for my decision to be a part of AIESEC.

My first friend is Yusaku, a Japanese guy. He was our guest in our very first testing workshop. He has shared with me much knowledge about Japanese culture. I have never known that Japanese attaches much important to taking off a pair of shoes before enter the house or avoid transferring the food from chopstick to chopstick and many other things. Although these knowledge may be popular in the internet, it was still very interesting and memorable especially when be shared by a genuine Japanese guy.

After Yusaku, I had a chance to make friends with other interns come to participate in our project. They are Sam, Gopal, Alvin and Maggie. Sam is a pretty girl with the dark skin which is typical of Philippine people. She has a taste of delivering her smile free to almost people she met. Furthermore, she sings very well especially when she song the folk-song of her country. Alvin, the first year student come from famous SMU university, was a funny and talkative guy. I still remembered the first time I met him after 2 hours of flying, his face was so pale because he was shocked by the traffic in Viet Nam. Another intern is Golba, the IT student come from India. He has left in me an impression about social person who had a wide connection and very serious in working. Everyone he met he always kept their contact. Furthermore, he was so friendly that he can make friend with almost people. The most interesting of him I have found is the culture of his country which I had a chance to interact through our culture understanding workshop. India is a beautiful country which has many religion and various foods. Through these workshops, I also knew how to say “hello”, “thank you” and “I love you” in Indian language if I had any chance to fall in love with a Indian guy ^^.

The last one is Maggie, the cute girl come from Malaysia but she is of Chinese descent. When she came, I had only 3 days to find the host. It was a stressful memory that I have never experienced before. However, every effort will be cheated well. After a hard struggle, we have found a traditional Vietnamese family who are always willing to introduce our culture to my intern. The Vietnamese family Maggie lived in is an extended family including three generations. In every weekend, they usually have family reunion when the relatives gather and celebrate cozy meals together. More than that, all members in this family always take care of the other and very respect the older. In the meal, other members always wait the grand parent pick up first and then they can start to eat. However, this tradition didn’t create the distance between the members and the grandparent. Furthermore, the relationships between them are very close. In the world cup season, the daughter put the alarm clock to wake up her and grand father in order to enjoy the football match together. “Simplicity and warmth are the impression of Vietnamese family I will bring back” Maggie said.

Regardless of where we come from, whatever language we speak and whatever religion we belong to, we, aiesecers and interns, are one team. We have worked together, hung out together and learned from each other. Thanks to them, I had the chance to interact with other culture and worked in a diversified environment. I have concluded that each culture has a specific beauty, each of them is a flower which has formed the beautiful world of variety.



Thanh Mai-Step Up's project member

STEP UP PROJECT

What is STEP UP?

It 's a ational project for high school and university students, giving them practical knowledge and necessary skills so that they can become responsible citizens in the future. AIESEC stands for a bus, driving its passengers to intellectual destinations of Culture Understanding, Social Responsibility and Active Learning. At each stop, students would come out and explore these new lands of knowledge with AIESEC as the tour guide.

Introduction

The main theme of project is 3 virtual bus tours which take you go to various lands and explore wonderful and miraculous things.

On Green bus ( Social Responsibility workshops), you can discover your “small Earth”, it is your own city/country which you are living in. Do you love this green city/country? If Yes, Will you protect it, protect what you love???

On Rain bow bus ( Culture Understanding workshops) will take you to a friendly land of different cultures to freely learn and experience the cultures of the world, talk with foreign friends and tell them stories about cultures of our own country – Vietnam.

On Yellow bus (Active Learning workshops), simply taste knowledge pizza with us. How many pieces will you choose for yourself? With each piece is one of your activeness, dynamic and creativeness?

The workshop content will be delivered in the following ways:

Overall presentation using a PowerPoint, which will cover:

1. Culture Understanding

• Cultural features of countries in the world
• Differences between culture in Vietnam and other countries
• How to overcome culture shocks and integrate with a new culture

2. Social Responsibility

• Global/Vietnam environment reality
• Why we need to protect environment?
• How we can protect environment?

3. Active Learning

• What is Active Learning?
• Why Active Learning?
• How to learn actively?

Interactive activities, such as:

• Culture Understanding: foreign traditional games, learn new languages (in words), presentation about Vietnamese culture, quizzes about culture.

• Social Responsibility: quizzes about environment, making green products, design poster/logo/slogan, presentation, debate.

• Active Learning: quizzes, use active learning methods and compare with other methods.

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09/2010 AIESEC HO CHI MINH CITY - OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

AIESEC in Ho Chi Minh City is glad to introduce to a great chance to become a member of the world's largest student-run organization!

We are now launching a new member recruitment for all students from all universities in Vietnam. We believe that AIESEC will be the international platform for you to explore and develop your leadership potential so as to have a positive impact on the society.

See more opportunities in AIESEC

Who can apply for AIESEC Ho Chi Minh City?

• Current Vietnamese students from all universities in Ho Chi Minh City ( except from Foreign Trade University and RMIT. Those from these university, please contact their Local Committee for more information )
• Youth interested in world issues
• Those who like to challenge themselves
• Open-minded active learners
• Those with an interest in leadership development
• Passionate and determined
  
• Those who are looking for learning and development opportunities
• Those who display good understanding and keen interest in AIESEC Vision
• Good command of English language

How to apply for AIESEC Ho Chi Minh City?

Download application form here

Please download our Application package here (including instruction and application form)

• Step 1 : Fill in Application Form.
• Step 2: Send your application form to info.hcm@aiesec.net with proper subject and content before deadline (Sep 11th, 2010)
• Step 3: Receive our confirm email (content: we have received your application form).
• Step 4: Send email to us if you haven't received confirm email.
• Step 5: Wait for the result

Please feel free to contact us if you have any problem regarding the application process.

INFORMATION SEMINAR

If you want to have more information, please register for our INFORMATION SEMINAR . Come and enjoy AIESEC spirit

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Selection Procedure Our Selection Our selection process is designed to assess applicants' various competencies. We wish to match the need of the individuals to the need of our organization . 1. Application Review Time: 23rd August to 11th September, 2010 Description: All applications submitted are reviewed and screened. Only shortlisted candidates will be informed about date and next step in the selection process . __________ 2. Assessment Centre Time: on 18th to 19th September, 2010. Description: All candidates who passed the application form round are required to participate in assessment center, which includes activities to assess applicants' competencies. __________ 4. Personal Interview Time: 25th to 26th September, 2010. Description: Personal Interview is the last step in the section process for those who have successfully passed the 2nd round. Once you have passed this last round, you are eligible to become a member of AIESEC Ho Chi Minh City.

Notice: Result from each round will be informed to selected candidatesvia email/phone-call. Please check your email inbox usually during the time you apply to AIESEC. Contact details: Email: info.hcm@aiesec.net Website: www.aiesechochiminh.org FB: www.facebook.com/aiesechochiminh

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Professional Goal setting process

Executive Board HCMLC 2010-2011 A Fairy Tale to make...

I wouldn’t exchange my AIESEC experience for a full scholarship in London Business School.

And that is 100% true. I wouldn’t exchange the experience I lived in AIESEC for anything, especially not a scholarship in any of the top ranked MBA schools in the world. This is no empty rhetoric – I had to leave attractive things to be in AIESEC. I left a career that was giving me a reasonable amount of money to get more involved in AIESEC and after I also left the business I created (and was starting to become profiting enough to put a smile on my face) to come to AIESEC Norway and get a more challenging experience.

In no particular order, the lessons I learned in my AIESEC experience:
1. It’s better to have no people than the wrong people – self-explanatory, but the thing is that when you don’t have anyone, at least you know you have a problem. When you have the wrong people, you fight to make them right and this generally fails.
2. Your team is a reflection of your behavior – when a team is down or up or anything, look at yourself as team leader. Inevitably you will be in the same state, so don’t get pissed off with them. Change yourself!
3. Get out of the throne and rush to the battle, your Majesty – it’s very pretty to say you are an strategic leader and sit in your office commanding the troops. Get out there and do stuff. Be present where the things are happening, because you can impact a lot by being an example in the battlefield, not in the board room.
4. People are different, accept and act accordingly – we all like to think we are unique, except when we want people to agree with us. Accept that people are different, they value different things and need to be treated not as you would like to be treated, but as they would like/need to be treated. Some people need pushing, some people need pulling, most people need both in different times.
5. Top down looks smart, but it’s dumb – top down approach is a nice temptation, but it will work much better if you can involve the bottom and middle (or parts of it) in the change. It’s dumb to come up with solutions that considers only the upper organization ‘s viewpoint, use multiple perspectives.
6. If middle management is not onboard, your boat won’t sail – leaders and managers that make things happen are a huge bottle neck for change (or the most awesome lever). What do you want them to be? Get them onboard early.
7. Make it simple, as simple as you can – complexity looks professional, but it’s just a lame way to solve problems. Look at Google, anyone knows how to use it because it’s damn simple.
8. You can’t build Rome in a day – change takes time. Plan accordingly – or conservatively.
9. Focus, focus, focus – you know you can’t build Rome in a day, but you also can’t build it all at the same time. So choose wisely what you want your organization to be doing and focus on it as hell with consistent behavior and messages that reinforce what you want to focus on.
10. Whole human-being is not a theory, is a fact – humans are not rational machines. There is at least 3 equal parts in humans: emotion, sensation and rational. Tap into those 3 human perspectives to lead effectively.
11. Adapt the job to the people, not the other way around – use people’s strengths when allocating responsibilities and don’t be trapped in functional job descriptions. In the end, the only thing that matters is to achieve the vision while making the mission happen. Complicated organization structures and systems should help you perform, not make it harder.
12. Accept reality and act upon it – it’s very easy to get trapped in an ideal world where things should be different. Accept what things really are and act as they are, not as they hypothetically should be.
13. Simple and visible plan – Simple plan, with clear and measurable goals, clear action, responsible and deadline. Make it visible also – we’ve put our plan and scoreboard on the wall, it was simple perfect.
14. Trust the team – if you heard hint number 1, you should have only quality people. Stretch their potential by giving them more and more trust and larger and larger responsibilities. You will be 80% of the time surprised positively.
15. Have a strong vision for direction and put all your efforts in it – and then use hint number 9: focus, focus, focus, while also taking an active decision to not focus on some things, important or urgent as they might be. If you need to do many things that are not on the vision or your vision is wrong/incomplete or your work is wrong.

President, AIESEC Norway 2009-10

Sergio Schuler
( Sergio has had a distinguished AIESEC experience and was on the management board of two countries. He served as The President, AIESEC Norway 2009-10, Vice President Human Resources – AIESEC Norway 2008-09 and National Learning Coordinator, AIESEC Brazil in 2006-07 )
This August in Hyderabad, India – 700 of the world’s brightest youth will come together in a celebration of Leadership and Diversity, they’ll come together for The 62nd AIESEC International Congress 2010.

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