AIESEC UK announces strategic partnership with Milkround to provide better support to students for career planning

We’re absolutely delighted to announce our new strategic partnership in 2013 with Milkround.com, the number 1 Graduate Recruitment Website in the UK!

If you haven’t yet, please sign up to Milkround for tailored graduate job alerts here.

AIESEC and Milkround have teamed up to provide AIESEC members with fantastic career opportunities and advice. They will assist AIESEC members and fellows with career support, CV workshops, training, skill sessions & much more.

We’re very excited to be welcoming them at our National Strategic Conference in June 2013 – London.

Milkround has been voted the UK’s number 1 graduate recruitment website for the sixth consecutive year (High Fliers Research, 2013) and with their vision of providing career confidence to students across the UK, we’re happy to be taking a strategic part in making this happen.

It feels like a rough time to be a graduate in most parts of the world. In some parts of Europe, the youth unemployment rate is around 50 per cent of the 16-24 demographic. In the UK, if you look at three of your friends, chances are that one of you will not have a job after graduation. The world where you land your dream job after graduation simply does not exist anymore. It is not enough to be just a university graduate.

For today’s students, acquiring the skills and knowledge to operate in a global economy is vital. Classroom learning is no longer sufficient preparation for most professions. To be attractive to fast-paced global organizations, young people need real-world experience, leadership skills and a global mindset by the time they graduate.

The best way to gain all three is by working in a foreign culture – outside your comfort zone – where every day brings challenges, problem-solving and personal growth. AIESEC, a global youth network for leadership development, offers that experience by placing students and graduates in international internships with companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (more…)

THE WORLD IS CARING

KONY 2012 received a phenomenal outpour of emotion when a 30 minute video exploded onto the internet about a year ago today. The video and campaign pulled a huge following and then suddenly, the conversation became about whether or not Invisible Children, the charity that released the video, were spending their resources in the best way or not. The impact model of the campaign came into huge question, and a lot of the momentum was lost.

This post has nothing to do with the campaign, but is connected to a concept that it revealed.

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AIESEC UK is working hard to provide IT companies in the United Kingdom with a unique pool of talent from the world’s fastest growing developing countries. (more…)

Getting your first job is getting harder and harder: employers are looking for experienced interns and graduates with new ideas. In a grim job market dominated by the effects of a seemingly never-ending crisis, AIESEC provides young people with a chance to stand out of the crowd while looking for a job. (more…)

AIESEC, the world largest youth-run leadership organization has been created 64 years ago to provide meaningful experiences to students and broaden their view of the world. In the UK, AIESEC is present in 20 Universities and challenges 500 young students to get out of their comfort zone by facilitating, themselves a whole exchange programme. Has this experience changed their view of the world and their employability? Let me share my story. (more…)

Helen McAvoy and Naomi Kibble are just back from a Dragon’s Den hit with an offer of £80,000 for a 40% stake. Let us backtrack a little and see how they got there!

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“Picture this: You have an organization, with over 86,000 employees in over a 113 countries that doesn’t retain the management employees for more than a year. (more…)

When looking at this video by Natalie Warne about being young and having an impact,  the word that sprang to my mind and kept me thoughtful was Anonymous Extraordinaries. They are those people that would do anything to help achieve the things they believe in. They don’t look for recognition, they look for impact, they want to have an impact on the world, on the causes they believe in. (more…)

Tier 5 government authorised exchange category is for people coming to the UK through approved programmes that aim to share knowledge, best practice, and to experience the social & cultural life in the UK. Access Tier 5 is a unique and one of the only few authorised programmes that can provide true flexibility within the Tier 5 Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) category for business immigration. It is designed specifically to allow organizations to facilitate internships for highly skilled non-EEA candidates, pre selected and sourced by the organizations themselves, which has been challenging since the removal of Training & Work Experience Scheme.

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The annual CUSU Societies’ Fair was held on Tuesday 2nd Oct and Wednesday 3rd Oct. Pictures speak a thousand words:

We were not only delighted by the rocketing number of sign-ups, but also by many amazing surprises at the event. One of them is having David Jurenka,  AIESEC Cambridge’s VP BD 2011-2012, current consultant at Mckinsey, back in our societies’ fair! He shared with us loads of stories/memories about AIESEC Cambridge:) Also, we are honoured to have him to be at some of our future events!

As a kid I always wanted to be President of my own club, so that I could make decisions and accomplish what I thought would be useful. So in my first year at LSE when an inquiry came in from AIESEC about starting a program in the UK, of course, I volunteered.

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Much as I like to jump straight to where the action is, it might be best to start at the beginning. So, who am I?

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Entrepreneurship is really hard to define, since for each one this word has a different meaning. Is it all about willing to start something? Is it about putting ideas in action? Webster defines an entrepreneur as: “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise”. (more…)

My AIESEC story started back in 2006, when I threw myself into University life in Cardiff. My first AIESEC conference involved jumping on a bus to Norfolk with a group of strangers. I sat beside the friendliest amongst them; a curly haired English girl called Naomi. Little did I know that 1 month later I would have started my first business with a few of these ‘strangers’. (more…)

One of the global issues that holds a constant place high up on the agenda is youth unemployment, fueling fears that today’s young people could become tomorrow’s “lost generation”.

Youth unemployment in the UK and worldwide

In November 2011, the UK’s youth unemployment has gone over the million mark. 22.5% of 16 to 25 year-olds are jobless, which is also the highest level since records began in 1992, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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In AIESEC we know lots of people who discovered a new way to see the world, and inside this new way, found that their skills and competences could be developed beyond the imaginable. This is one of them, Stefanie Gösele, alumnus from AIESEC Germany:

“AIESEC is, in my opinion, the first choice for young people who want to develop their personalities and broaden their horizons. Among the most important skills and qualities that a student can acquire in AIESEC are leadership skills and entrepreneurship.

When I was younger, I was completely lacking an entrepreneurial mindset and considered myself incapable of ever managing business of my own. Then I joined AIESEC.

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The Global South, also known as the Third World, the North-South Divide, The Rich-Poor divide, is a sad reality in the world today. AIESEC is present in many of these countries, and in some, for instance India, it has thrived, giving much to their society.

But the beauty of AIESEC is that it does not just enable the Global North to affect the Global South, the affect is also the other way around. The introduction of these countries into AIESEC have given much to our culture. Roll Calls – fun and funny introductions of each country – were originally introduced by AIESEC Africa.
Here is the story of one AIESECer from AIESEC Nigeria, and how AIESEC and the mobility AIESEC has allowed him has affected him, and how he has gone on to affect a developed country – the Czech Republic.

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