This document provides guidelines for conducting interviews for an international student organization. It includes instructions on setting up the interview, preparing for it, conducting the actual interview, and following up after. The interview is meant to last 20 minutes and follows a structured flow: 1) introductions, 2) explaining the organization, 3) learning about the applicant, 4) showing relevant opportunities, 5) applicant's questions, 6) checking expectations, 7) outlining next steps, and 8) follow up. The goal is to understand the applicant's interests and motivations in order to match them with appropriate international experiences through the organization.

1. Interview Guideline

2. Set interview
• By phone call
• By email
• Set time for meeting: (3 – 4 dates when you can
meet)
• Make sure you have reserved a room where you
can conduct the interview and ensure the
applicant knows how to get there
• Ask for CV

3. Before Interview:

4. You need to know
• Our product– features & benefits, S & D (Which kind of
country partners we have and which kind of projects they
have)
• Why we are better than our competitors (travel
agencies,…)
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• We have Unique product:
• By our servis - help,
• We are helping people to have volunteering
experiences, get to know different cultures, to do
meaningfull work abroad.
• We have references, huge network, a lot of opportunitie

5. You need to have:
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exact JDs, promo materials
references
know stories
statistics (for example: how much people we
sent last year as @ ČR)

6. How to prepare:
• Read CV – make notes
• Have online form
• Know questions and how to evaluate them
(viz. Record from webinar, trainings)

7. What not to do:
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Don´t ask more than 1 question in same time
Don´t use negative words
Don't judge answers
Don't be rude and unprofessional

8. Time Schedule of the interview:
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Introduction – 5%
Explaining AIESEC – 10%
collecting information about student – 70%
Questions from student – 10%
Follow-up – 5%

9. Interview

10. Flow of meeting:
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Introduction, ice break
What AIESEC can offer
Questions about him/her
Show specific examples of what he/she can do
Their questions
Checking exp.
Next step
Follow up
*During whole interview is really important to listen the customer
whole time and with questions to find out what is the reason s/he
wanna travel abroad and use negociation to offer him/her the right
options for him/her.

11. 1. Introduction:
• greet the student and offer him
water/coffee/tee
• Ask if he/she have enough time you need. (do
you have 20 min?).
• Introduce yourself and your colleague
• Say some ice break to have possitive and
friendly atmosphere
• Tell him/her how will be the process of this
interview and it´s purpouse

12. 2. Introduction of
AIESEC
• Ask what s/he knows about us
• Explain what we do and why we do it:
• we are the biggest international students organization in the World. We were
established after World war two to make peace in the World: our vision is Peace
& Fullfilment of human kind potential
• What do we do is that we are developing leadership in young people through
our four core products:
• International internships: Proffesional and Volunteering one,
• Membership in organization: Member of organization, Teamleader of members
in org.
*It means that young people are developing themselves (competencies) by working
in intense and challenging environment.

13. • Which kind of projects we have, what are our
country partners:
• We have 11 Country partners:
Russia, Italy, Romania, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Ta
iwan, Srí Lanka, Columbia, Brazil, Mexico.
• We have tree main sub-products: Global Citizen
Cultural, Global Citizen Entrepreneur and Global
Citizen Languages.
• -Explain general JD s of each sub-product.

14. 3. Questions about
him/her
• Use general questions – online form
• use STAR method:(
Situation, Tasks, Actions, Results)
• Look for reason, motivation, exp., limitation
• Find out need of the customer – why he/she
wanna go abroad and what s/he wanna do there

15. 4. Show specific examples
of what he/she can do:
• Based on Results of the customer show him
concrete JDs of projects from one of the subproducts
• Use storytelling from EPs who were there.
• Offer contact on people who went with us to
these country/on this project

16. 5. Their questions:
• Give student space to ask questions
• It´s wierd if he/she doesn´t have any. (If
she/he was really thinking about going he/she
should have some)

17. 6. Checking
Expectations:
• Check if it´s what s/he expected.
• If yes – great move on
• If not – find out why? What's/he is imagining
differently

18. 7. Next steps:
• Explain what will happen after this interview:
how is the proces
• (Email -> Setting expectations + feedback>signing contract -> logging into database ->
finding internship -> preparation for internship
-> internship -> debriefing meeting/seminar or
ToT.)

19. 8. Follow up
• Repete on what you agreed – what will be the
next step and when it will be.
• Make sure that students agree with that (s/he
confirmed that)
• Ask for contacts of friends who might be
interested.
• Thanks for students answers and time

20. After Interview
• Make sure you have written all answers into
online form and also assign points.
• Agree with student on next meeting where
you will give feedback + set expectations and
sign contract