About two weeks ago a lot of HES students received an email from Mr Molenaars. In this email he asked us for our interest in competing in an international marketing competition in Canada. The best of all was that HES would pay for everything flight, hotel, food everything! pretty good huh? Of Course I signed up immediately. However, only five students can represent the HES in Canada and therefore a selection period is taking place right now.

Guess what, I’m in the selected final 15 students! Now we are divided into three groups of 5 and we have to compete by presenting a marketing case this Monday. I’m gonna do my very best to be one of these 5 HES representatives in Canada.

I wish all the other selected students good luck. and for the rest of you, I’m keeping you updated on what is happening during the selection period.

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This looks like a famous piece of art but couldn’t survive at HES……

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HAVE YOU BEEN ON EXCHANGE? OR ARE YOU DOING YOUR EXCHANGE AT THE HES?

if yes, it is/was a crazy good time right?

Why don’t you help other students getting the same experience?

How can you help?

The international office is organising a going abroad fair on November 12. Therefore, they are looking for YOU to help out and give other students info about your exchange period. Nobody can do it better because you have been there! (can’t be at the going abroad fair? you can still help with writing down your experience and mail your story to info@babylonix.com)

What is in it for you?

Everybody who helps out will receive a unique polo shirt and afterwards we’re gonna have a Borrel with free drinks from 15:00 to 16:00. So see you the 12th!

Wanna help?

Don’t wait check your availability and mail it together with your Name, Student number and exchange institute to a.n.g.wichers.hva.nl.

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This morning a police helicopter was circling above the HES again. Perhaps the official news will be the same story as last week when the police run in to our neighbours at ROC. They where looking for weapons but couldn’t find any perhaps this week they where looking in the HES? No I don’t think so HES is super quiet today…..

click here for the Parool article from last week. (in dutch)

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We are looking for new students to join our board. We want to keep our organization young and fresh so we need your creativity and enthusiasm to make this big.

Why would you become board member? What we offer:

• Get to know lots of students from all over the world
• Organization of events
  
• Improve your managerial skills
• Real life business experience
• Network with students and teachers
• We are flexible (we are students too)
  
• Being in our board looks good on your CV
  

Requirements

• You should be business student (of course)
• You should be extremely social and easy going.
• Active in social networks
• International minded
• Committed to your tasks
• Be present at all main activities
• Be present at all weekly organizational meetings
• Business mind person, able to see or create opportunities
• Excellent communications skills  in spoken and written English + fluent in any other language
• Any IT skills always adds up> MS Office, Photoshop, web designing

More detailed info HERE.

If you think you match this description, send us an email  to info@babylonix.com with your CV and we will get back to you with some other questions and probably arrange an informal interview.

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The best way to find an internship part 2 (click here for part 1)
Last time in part 1, I told you about my personal crappy experience of searching for an internship and this time it is starting to look better. Other than that, it think I have got a few pretty helpful tips for you guys who are gonna be searching for an internship next semester. Like I already said start in time.

Easy way to make your email more effective
When you apply for your internship you might be sending companies an email with your full motivation letter and CV. On the other hand, why not just writing the most important things in the email itself without any attachment. Obviously, you should tell them that if they are interested you can mail them a full cover letter and CV on demand. Think about it, most of the time they just have a look at it real quick anyway, and why would someone open an attachment from someone they’ve never heared of? (just give it a try)

Putting yourself on the map
I emailed to the dutch embassies of several Asian countries most of them replied referring me to organisations for Dutch companies in the specific countries. In Singapore for example there is a website for dutch companies where students can put an add for internship opportunities.

Unusual experience
I had another unusual experience took place in a hostel in Guangzhou (China) where I was working on a HES assignment. A few hours before the deadline about 5AM in China I was finalizing the assignment and all alone in the lobby of the hostel (the only place with internet). Than a french dude came around because he couldn’t sleep or something. Well I started talking to him and it turned out he was running outsourcing business in China! PRETTY COOL! So after a while he told me quite a lot about his firm and over 15 years experience in Asian business. On the end, he said there would be an opportunity for me and we had some email contact later on. However, by the time it became pretty sure that I could work for him it turned out that I had some other offers as well. Yeah if you just contact a whole lot of companies there will be at least a couple replying and some of them may even turn out to offer you an internship.

How I got the internship
Finally I got the internship through just old fashion word of mouth, a friend of a friend of a friend worked at the company. So here the classic advice is to make sure you tell all your contacts you are looking for an internship and perhaps one will give you a golden tip!

This is all I can say, don’t blame me if it doesn’t work out for you. I’m not a specialist either this is just my experience!

Good luck with internship hunting!

Got some better tips? feel free to comment below!

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What’s this? For those HES students which spent already a couple of year at HES, this was the old log of the HES, but like 5 years ago…. still hanging there, nobody ever bothered to changed it but there were really strong discussion about merging HES with the HvA… anyways.. who cares…

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What are they making? Finally some extra study rooms? A building for more computers? A lounge area for cool students? The Babylonix office? a place to put all the motorbikes? Student housing? A huge lecture hall? WHAT IS IT?

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What is graduating at hes like?

Finally arrived at hes, and when you stand in front of that building you realise that it might be the last time you will ever see it…. haha how great is that! Four years of hard working, just to experience this important day! That’s all I did it for!

The Graduation Ceremony started with a small reception, with coffee and tea. Here all the people gathered together. The nice thing is that you see the people again after a year of exchange periods and internships.

And there they were, the people I missed for months; those I used to drink with, hang out with, get bored with, make fun with, cheat at exams with (hehe, just kidding), relax with, present with, study with, Yes, honestly I had to work of course, well at least read the books to know what the subjects were about, get mock exams and study it, write some stuff at exam papers and get at least the minimum of 5.5.

Unfortunately you don’t see all the people at the reception that I would wanted to see. Not everyone made it in four years.

After the reception we walked to the “North Serre” where a stage and a large beamer were installed. The moment you enter the “North Serre” you get that feeling of doing your first presentation ever, sooo nervous. No one knows what is going to happen. You can see everybody being excited and nervous at the same time.

Then Ms. Vila Roches (the Spanish teacher) opened the Graduation Ceremony where soon Mr. Resing took over to speech about studying and stuff like that. After Mr Resing’s speech the students had to go forward and pick up their diploma, one by one.

Hey… and here is the moment for YOU to watch the videos we added at the website under the “tab” videos…. that’s what happens next!

Lucky me I had to pick up my diploma and Peter Fonkert (my dissertation-guide) gave a speech about me, and I got a present! Nice!) Next, other students picked up their diploma and the teachers Mr. Weaver and Mr. Moosa gave a short speech or asked questions or made some jokes.

After all speeches went to another room inside school were everyone could get drinks and snacks.

And then!

YEESSSS finally done with HES! Yesyesyesyes…..Finally I can say: bye bye HES hasta la vista!

Written by Calista

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