EXECUTIVE BOARD

AIESEC in BANGALORE
2019
 Dear Applicants,
Congratulations on taking up the brave step of applying to the Executive Body of AIESEC in
Bangalore for the year 2019-2020.
The experience of applying will in itself be one the most self-enlightening process you will go through
as you pen down your thoughts to most questions. You will reflect upon your AIESEC experience and
realise that you have come a long way already.
We hope through this application you are able to express all your thoughts in the purest of form
showcasing what your intent truly is. This journey will make you question a lot, yet, will also reinforce
your belief in certain things, so make sure you use this time to gain as much insight as you can about
yourself as an individual, and obviously, as a candidate for this post.
Whatever happens, always remember, we as the current Executive Body of AIESEC in Bangalore are
extremely proud of you and have faith that you can lead AIESEC in Bangalore to greater heights.
We wish you very best through every stage of this process.
Give your extra 1% and stay fearless.

THUNDER
Executive Body 2018
AIESEC in Bangalore

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 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

IGT OGV

IGV OGE

FNZ BD PM

B2C

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 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Please read this document in detail and very carefully.

2. Subject of the mail should be: FirstName_LastName_ EB_2019_BANGALORE
3. The application package needs to be submitted to harshitha.madhu@aiesec.net and eb2018blr@googlegroups.com by
11:57 PM on the 9th of November 2018.
4. Applicants cannot withdraw their applications.
5. Applicants may run for a maximum of 2 positions.
6. All sections are compulsory. Use the same numbering system as the question you are responding to.
7. Late applications – even by a few minutes – WILL NOT be accepted and no exceptions will be given, including in the
cases of email/computer dysfunction.
8. Extensions will not be given. As such, we strongly recommend you do not wait until the last minute to submit your
application, as you will be risking it not being accepted should unforeseen events occur.
9. You can create your own design (graphic style and colour usage), but you may only use Font Lato/Calibri throughout
the application in size 12 only. Design your application as you imagine it.
10.Application cannot exceed a maximum of 35 pages including Cover.
11.In this application, you will be able to use all your creativity when creating and designing your own application form to
stand for the Executive Board 2019 of AIESEC in Bangalore. The process has been designed to bring out the best in
you through your application. At the same time, filling the application will support you in preparing yourself for a great
term on the EB. Your application reflects you; it reflects your personality and your perspectives. Be comprehensive and
concise.
12.Any breach of selection guidelines would lead to disqualification of the applicant. 




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 PART A

1.Blank Paper Challenge - depict the year 2018 for your department & how you envision it to be in 2019 and
in the future.

2.Enneagram Test 1 &2 , Bigfive, MBTI test, take all three tests, provide screenshots of the results.

3.What are your strengths and weaknesses as a person? How would you focus on; capitalising your strengths
and improving your weaknesses? Also write three core values that you stand for.

4. Describe your future short-term and long-term career and personal goals. How do you expect an EB term to
help you achieve these goals and why now?

5. List your timeline and commitments for 2019

6. Explain AIESEC in not more than 50 words to:

• A 10-year-old kid
• A parent of an EP
• A corporate client
• An uneducated person
• A head of a Social Sector Enterprise

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 PART B

1.Why have you decided to run for the role of EB of AIESEC in Bangalore over any other opportunity
in or outside AIESEC?
2. What is your definition of an ideal leader? What makes you believe that you are eligible for the
position of an Executive Body member of AIESEC in Bangalore?
3. People run Organisations or Organisations runs People. Give your perspective.
4. Explain what your relationship with the Management Body and General Body would be like as 

an EB member and a VP.
5. Mention the leader/leaders you look up to and reason for the same. Also give qualities in a Leader
that you don’t like. Do a SWOT analysis of yourself keeping your ideal leader as the target you want
to achieve? 


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART C

General Questionnaire - Only for exchange portfolios

1. Which LC is the best in India for the portfolio that you’re applying to and why? Answer the
question backed with data. 


2. What were the challenges in the portfolio that you are applying to in 2018 and what is your plan
to convert them into successes in 2019? 


3. What are the Measures of Success [national GCPs] for the portfolio you are applying to? What are
the key steps you are going to take specific to the portfolio you are applying for to ensure that
MoS is achieved in AIESEC in Bangalore?


4. Mention 3 key operational strategies that worked or successes of AIESEC in Bangalore in the
years 2017 and 2018 together. 


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

INCOMING GLOBAL VOLUNTEER

Knowledge Skills
• AIESEC Business Model • Data Analysis
• Value Proposition of IGV • Sales and Marketing
• Understanding of customer flow • Project Management Relationship
• Understanding of supply & demand building & networking
• Product SOPs • Crisis management
• Project creation, implementation and • Customer Relations
management
• Team management • Networking
• CRM • Microsoft Office

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

INCOMING GLOBAL VOLUNTEER

1. Why are you applying to the role of VP iGV and what makes you believe you are best suited for this role?
2. Explain your understanding of AIESEC’ s business model and Customer Flow.
3. What are the key local, national and international trends that are going to affect iGV in the year of 2019
and beyond?
4. Analyse the number of exchanges of iGV of AIESEC in Bangalore and AIESEC in India for the past 

3 years (Applications, Approvals, Realisations and Complete if applicable) and draw 3 key inferences
from the same.
5. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Challenges) for the department considering the
performance in the last 3 years? Highlight the achievements and failures.
6. What will be your International Relations strategy? Highlight the countries of focus with data.
7. Present your CRM plan , highlight it’s importance and significance.
8. Present your value delivery plan, how will you ensure to deliver maximum number of completes?
9. Map a member’s journey in the department, how will you ensure maximum engagement, retention and
membership development?


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

OUTGOING GLOBAL VOLUNTEER

Knowledge Skills

• AIESEC Business Model • Data Analysis

• Customer Flow • Sales and Marketing skills
• AIESEC systems and tool • Project Management
• Product Knowledge including history. • Effective Communication
Supply and Demand Knowledge • Public Speaking
• Product Packaging • Survey analysis
• Product SOPs • Microsoft Excel
• Google Spreadsheet


• Customer Relations
• Networking

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

OUTGOING GLOBAL VOLUNTEER

1. Why are you applying to the role of VP oGV and what makes you believe you are best suited for this role?
2. Explain your understanding of AIESEC’ s business model and Customer Flow.
3. What are the key local, national and international trends that are going to affect oGV in the year of 2019
and beyond?
4. Analyse the number of exchanges of oGV of AIESEC in Bangalore and AIESEC in India for the past 

3 years (Applications, Approvals, Realisations and Completes if applicable) and draw 3 key inferences
from the same.
5. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Challenges) for the department considering the
performance in the last 3 years? Highlight the achievements and failures.
6. Briefly explain your strategy to build UR and IR in 2019. Highlight with data.
7. Present your CRM plan , highlight it’s importance and significance.
8. How will you ensure market collaboration and segmentation with OGE in 2019?
9. Present your value delivery plan, how will you ensure to deliver maximum number of completes?
10. Map a member’s journey in the department, how will you ensure maximum engagement, retention and
membership development?


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

OUTGOING GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR

Knowledge Skills

• AIESEC Business Model • Sales and Marketing skills

• Customer Flow phases
• AIESEC systems and resources
• XPP & Product Knowledge
• Supply and Demand Knowledge
• Product SOPs
• Project/Campaign Management
• Relationship Building
• Networking
• Public Speaking
• Survey analysis
• Microsoft Excel and Google
Spreadsheet
• Team Building and management
Strategy Innovation

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D
OUTGOING GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR
1. Why are you applying to the role of VP oGE and what makes you believe you are best suited for this role?
2. Explain your understanding of AIESEC’ s business model and Customer Flow.
3. What are the key national and international trends that are going to affect oGE in the year of 2019 and
beyond?
4. Analyse the number of exchanges of oGE of AIESEC in Bangalore and AIESEC in India for the past 

2 years (Applications, Approvals, Realisations and Completes if applicable) and draw 3 key inferences
from the same.
5. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Challenges) for the department considering the
performance in the last 3 years? Highlight the achievements and failures.
6. Briefly explain your strategy to build IR and UR in the year of 2019 specifically addressing the 

issue of how you are going to bridge the gap of supply and demand that exists in the International
Network for IR and local market for UR.
7. How will you ensure collaboration and segmentation of markets with oGV?
8. Explain in detail the attraction, consideration ,value delivery and brand advocacy strategy for oGE in
2019. How will you scale up operations and elaborate on department SOPs, structure to align with the
same.
9. Map a member’s journey in the department, how will you ensure maximum engagement, retention and
membership development?

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

INCOMING GLOBAL TALENT

Knowledge Skills

• AIESEC Business Model • Ability to be a classy ‘Closer’

• Customer Flow
• AIESEC systems and tool
• Product Knowledge
• Supply and Demand Knowledge
• Product Packaging Product
• SOP
• CRM
• Data Analysis
• Sales & Marketing
• Project Management
• Effective Communication
• Public Speaking
• Survey analysis
• Microsoft Excel and Google
Spreadsheet
• Relationship building & networking
• Crisis Management Account
Management

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART D

INCOMING GLOBAL TALENT

1. Why are you applying to the role of VP iGT and what makes you believe you are best suited for this role?
2. Explain your understanding of AIESEC’ s business model and Customer Flow.
3. What are the key local, national and international trends that are going to affect iGT in the year of 2019
and beyond?
4. Analyse the number of exchanges of iGT of AIESEC in Bangalore and AIESEC in India for the past 

3 years (Applications, Approvals, Realisations and Completes if applicable) and draw 3 key inferences
from the same.
5. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Challenges) for the department considering the
performance in the last 3 years? Highlight the achievements and failures.
6. “Education Sector is the biggest market.” Comment on the same and explain your strategies 

to capitalise on it.
7. Present your plan to generate maximum applications on EXPA and ensure high applied to approved ratio.
8. What will be your be International Relations strategy in order to bridge the gap between supply and
demand?
9. Map a member’s journey in the department, how will you ensure maximum engagement, retention and
membership development?


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 BACK OFFICE PORTFOLIOS - PART E

General Questionnaire - Only for back office portfolios

1. What do you understand from the role of a Back Office VP and member in this organisation?
2. Compare AIESEC to an external organisation of similar reach (include similarities, differences,
impact, etc.) and elaborate on key strategies or any business practices from that organisation
which can be implemented in AIESEC to ensure growth, relevance and improvement in what we
do every single day.
3. What are the Measures of Success for the portfolio you are applying to?
4. What are the key steps you are going to take specific to the portfolio you are applying for to ensure
that MoS is achieved?
5. Mention 3 key strategies( back office portfolio specific) that worked or successes of AIESEC in
Bangalore in the years 2017 and 2018 together. 


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Knowledge Skills

• AIESEC & all its products • Sales and Marketing Skills

• Understanding of external / Current • Relationship management
Affairs • Communication
• Sales understanding • Negotiation
• Training & Team Building
• Partnership building • Event Management
• Event curation • Partnerships Delivery
• Product Packaging • Documentation
• Classy closer of deals
• Networking

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 BACK OFFICE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
1. What according to you is the role of a VP BD of AIESEC in Bangalore on the Executive Body and what is
your understanding of Business Development?
2. What do you identify as the 3 major problems AIESEC faces as an organisation in the external world?
Justify your answer.
3. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, weakness, opportunities, challenges) analysis for the department.
4. What are the action steps would you take as VP BD to improve the EwA products for AIESEC in Bangalore.
Also explain each EwA product in detail.
5. Showcase your quarter wise event plan.
6. Present your plan to scale up OGX UR.
7. Keeping the members on the BOA in mind, suggest a few innovative ideas of how you propose to manage
these external bodies in the event of you being the VP BD. Also, what kinds of support groups need to be
added to our current stakeholders?
8. Map a member’s journey in the department, how will you ensure maximum engagement, retention and
membership development?


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

B2C

Knowledge Skills

• OGX Knowledge • Information Management

• Market understanding • Networking
• Sales understanding • Market research and analysis
• Partnership building • Persona building
• Event curation • Sales and marketing
• Product Packaging • Event management
• Customer flow • Classy closer of deals
• Understanding of AIESEC business • Documentation
model • Microsoft Office

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 BACK OFFICE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

B2C

1. What motivates you to apply for the role of LCVP B2C? What are the three areas in which you have the
most experience in and how do you think these experiences would help in your role as an LCVP B2C?
2. Conduct a SWOC analysis of the current OGX customer flow.
3. Identify the three key trends that are shaping India and explain how these trends are influencing AIESEC’s
brand, digital eco-system, processes at the local level. Justify by examples, analysis and inferences.
4. Define three key lead nurturing strategies that could be done in synergy with OGX.
5. What role does the LCVP B2C play in customer flow?
6. Do a market’s analysis of Bangalore’s youth market and develop a market segregation plan. Be as detailed
as possible.

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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Knowledge Skills

• Talent Management aspects within • Data Analysis

AIESEC • Survey analysis
• All products knowledge • Microsoft Excel
• Systems knowledge( LDA & LDM) • Data Organising
• Clarity of JDs for every department • Training and Coaching
• Organisational structure • Agenda Management
• Technology insights/ usage in TM • Behaviour analysis
• Innovation
• Systems knowledge : Member
Connect and Data collection

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 BACK OFFICE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
1. What is the role of a VP Talent Management and why have you decided to apply for the same?
2. Analyse the productivity, retention rate and iXP rate of AIESEC in Bangalore in the last three years. 

How would you as a VP TM improve upon the same?
3. Present your plan to generate maximum applicants for recruitment. Highlight your recruiting strategy.
4. Conduct a SWOC ( Strengths, weakness, opportunities, challenges) analysis of the current membership of
the LC?
5. What are the key focus areas of 2019 in terms of Talent Management? How will you 

implement the same?
6. “Culture drives performance in any organisation” What steps would you take to improve the 

culture of AIESEC in Bangalore?
7. Design the RnR campaign for 2019.
8. Design the induction agenda and LC calendar
9. “Our People come first. We grow through our people.” Keeping that is mind how are you going

to manage performance in the LC? 


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 EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

FINANCE

Knowledge Skills

• Understanding of AIESEC & all its • Data Analysis

products • Survey analysis
• Financial basics • Microsoft Excel
• Strategic planning • Risk Assessment
• Budget Planning • Fire fighting
• Administrative knowledge • Negotiation
• Financial model • Data management
• Budgeting • Problem Solving
• Legal knowledge • Data and Digital driven

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 BACK OFFICE PORTFOLIOS - PART F

FINANCE
1. What according to you is the role of a VP F & L of AIESEC in Bangalore on the Executive Body and what is
your understanding of Finance in AIESEC?
2. Study and analyse the finance reports of the past 4 years, present your inferences.
3. Analyse the finance standards in AIESEC and how will you implement it?
4. Conduct a SWOC ( strengths, weakness, opportunities and challenges) analysis of the financial condition
of the LC.
5. What is your plan to have alternative sources of income apart from exchange?
6. Mention some key initiatives for Finance to lead AIESEC in Bangalore’s growth and sustainability 

proactively. How will you drive finance as a MoS throughout the LC?
7. Create an investment model to drive performance in non-peak performance months of your 

term.
8. What is the role of Legal Archives and how do plan on achieving 100% completion?
9. Present your plan to clear bad debts and overdue of payments.


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 PART G
Applicable to exchange and back office portfolios*

1. Year Plan for specific application portfolio 2018 on the basis of: (Max 5 pages) 

Specific mentions of:

• Vision for the Year 2018 for your department or portfolio

• Structures that you will implement (Innovations and Risk Assessment)
• Target
• Month by month plan to achieve the given target
• Month by month implementation of strategies

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