AIESEC in University of Sri J'pura Newsletter December 2009

Best Regards,
Nadheera Udawatthe
President
AIESEC in University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka

Mobile: + 94718112063 | Email: nadheera@aiesec.org.lk | Skype: nadheera.udawatthe | www.aiesec.org

Flair 09

Flair 09 will happen 7th November 2009, 8 am onwards @ SBTF 4 Management Faculty of university of Sri Jayawardenepura

AIESEC Exprience

The AIESEC eXPerience is:

... the ideal learning process an individual can go through in AIESEC

The AIESEC eXPerience provides:

... learning opportunities consisting of the following 5 stages:

• Introduction to AIESEC (I2A): Introduction to AIESEC starts with communicating the brand and attracting students to AIESEC. Introduction to AIESEC doesn’t equal recruitment, but also the common induction into our organisation, which means to offer all opportunities possible in this organisation. In the end, our Newies know what AIESEC is all about, they want to drive change as well as knowing about the Learning Environment that they can use.
  
  
• Taking over responsibilities (TR): According to @XP, all AIESECers should take some level of responsibility in the organization. In this stage, members achieve more practical as well as theoretical knowledge to be able to bind more with the organisation. For this stage, we do not really have a set time frame because it depends on each and every individual how early they can start with taking over responsibility.
  
  
• Leadership Role (LR): Individuals can take over leadership roles at different stages. This will depend on which flow they choose to go through the AIESEC
  experience. In the Leadership Role, you are responsible for the learning of others as well as experiencing a great self- development. Since Leadership is much more demanded from students than before, it is a great opportunity within the AIESEC XP. The
  Leadership Body needs to be elected therefore to make sure, that the right people represent and lead each entity of our organisation.
  
  
• Exchange (X): eXchange is one of the core elements of the @XP. It can be done at any time within the whole experience, but because we want our EPs to understand what AIESEC, you need to make sure that your EP will have a good induction into AIESEC before he can go abroad. Also make sure that you review if she or he is suitable for an AIESEC internship, on the one hand in terms of matchability, on the other in terms of personal attitude and expectation within a good EP Selection process.
  
  
• Heading for the future (H4tF): After each individual AIESEC XP (wether it is an XP with X, L or XL), our members are most valuable due to their knowledge and their operative experience. These members can be used as buddies or mentors for your
  local committee. And members who achieved this status are highly regarded in corporate world.
  

Hey all Japura Students,
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AIESEC jargon

AIESEC community uses its own jargon. The following is the list of the most common AIESEC abbreviations

• @ — International symbol for AIESEC
• LC — Local Committee
• LCP — Local Committee President
• LCM — Local Committee Meeting
• LF — Leadership Forum
  
• EB — Executive Board (president and vice-presidents)
• VP (or LCVP) — Vice President. They are: OGX, CR, TM, Fin, COMM and AR (updated EB VPs circa 2008).
• OGX (or Student Relations) — OutGoing eXchange (title of a responsibility field): marketing, getting new members, organizing Review Boards and teaching about internship processes
• ICX (or Corporate Relations) — InComing eXchange: contacting companies, getting sponsors, selling AIESEC and earning internships. ICX is a former portfolio which merged with Corporate Development. Dealing with the intern and the company used to be done by these two separate portfolios. Now, CR takes care of both incoming interns and their respective employers to ensure their satisfaction.
• TM — Talent Manager: interviewing new members, checking their progress in @XP, solving problems and issues, reallocating members to destined positions, intern servicing.
• Fin (sometimes F) — Finance: keeping track of committee's profits and losses, reallocation of financial resources, buying equipment for the betterment of LC's life
• ER — External Relations (former portfolio which branched out to AR and COMM)
• AR — Alumni Relations: responsible for keeping track of AIESEC Alumni members, re-engaging them through events, getting sponsorships and contacting companies through them.
• COMM (sometimes COM) — Communication: responsible for AIESEC marketing, exposure, branding, relationships with the university, media coverage and updating information on the AIESEC websites.^{[citation needed]}
• PM — Project Manager
• IS — Information Systems or Information Management — people responsible for IT issues
• Leadership Team — EB, project managers and other AIESEC leaders in the LC (Support, IS, etc.)
• OC — Organizing Committee — group that is organizing a certain event (for example a conference)
• OCP — Organizing Committee President
• OCM — Organizing Committee Meeting
• LTT — Local Trainers Team
• LDS — Leadership Development Seminar
• Faci — Facilitator of the certain event, they give lectures, seminars and speeches
• MC — Member Committee, national AIESEC leading group
• MCP — Member Committee President
• MCVP — Vice President of Member Committee
• AI — AIESEC International, the highest administrative body of AIESEC
• PAI — President of the AI
• NST - National Support Team
• Matching — Procedure where placements and exchanges are brought together (it's done through MyAIESEC.net)
• EP — Exchange Participant, person who will be an intern and will go on an exchange
• Trainee — is what the Exchange Participant (EP) is called when they are in the country where they are doing their internship.
• PBoX — Project Based on eXchange
• CEED — Cultural Envoy for Exchange Development. This is an AIESEC exchange program designed to help AIESEC grow.
• CEEDer — is a person on a CEED. They either help AIESEC of another country or learn from them.
• BCP — Best Case Practise
• KPI — Key Performance Indicator. This is a tracker used by TM (Talent Management) to see how their LC (Local Committee) is performing.
• Exchange types — there are four exchange types in AIESEC:
  • MT - Management Traineeship (economic and finance issues)
  • DT - Development Traineeship (social and environmental issues)
  • TT - Technical Traineeship (technology and engineering issues)
  • ET - Education Traineeship (teaching and coaching issues)
• Newies — New AIESEC members
• @XP or AIESEC XP — AIESEC eXPerience (or just XP), model that describes what kind of experiences members can gain during their AIESEC time.

Current Executive Body of AIESEC in University Of Sri Jayawardenepura

Nadheera Udawatta
Local Committee President

Nethangi Fernando
Vice President Outgoing Exchange
Keshavi Puswewala
Vice President Projects
Nuwan Gamage
Vice President External Relations & Finance
Sathya Hettiarachchi
Vice President Communications
Shanaka Chathuranga
Vice President Incoming Exchange
Sulakshana De Alwis
Vice President Talent Management

And We also proud we always go under guidance of our staff advisers, Their help always help us to make our work success.

Staff Advisers of AIESEC in University of Jayawardenapura

Dr. Sampath Amarathunga
Dean
Faculty Of management studies & Commerce
University Of Sri Jayawardenepura

Why AIESEC differ?

After 13 years experience in school working on different kinds of student clubs you may feel AIESEC is just another student club. You may feel it just same as Rotract, LEO, Lion etc.

But my dear friends answer for this is........you are totally wrong, AIESEC is not just student club.
AIESEC is a professional student organization.

Professional ????

Yes we are professionals, we work as professional organization, in simple words we work as a corporate body ( a company). for example AIESEC Sri lanka is a registered as not for profit company under company act of Sri Lanka. So we operate as a company. We have director board (Member Committee) . We have different functions same as a business functions HR, Marketing, Finance, Communication, IT etc. And there are functional managers for each function whom are responsible and accountable for smooth run of their function for example Vice President Talent Management is responsible for Human Resource management. Same experience is given to all members, SO members get practical professional working experiences, when they are still studying at uni.

And many blue chip companies through out the world eg. Unilever, MAS recognize AIESEC experience as working experience. For sure something will color up our CV at the interview.

OK Being professional... will make us bored



Ahh .... No you are not, even though we are professional, we find time to fun, we party hard, go trips, etc etc