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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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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Last night Ajax beat Dinamo Zagreb by 2- 1 for the Europa UEFA League and 4 HES Amsterdam students were there to enjoy the game. These lucky students won their tickets by playing Nintendo Wii at the HES Atrium last week.

The match

Ajax had to win in order to assure the first position in the group and eventually easily qualify to the knock-out round. Dinamo Zagreb seriously sucked big times. The croatian team didn’t really attack and just focus on surviving throughout the game. Ajax attacked since the first minute of the game and Suarez as usual provoked a penalty which made him score the first goal already in the 3rd minute of the game. Good chances had Ajax but the supporters had to wait until the 80th minute to celebrate again. As always, Suarez assisted Rommedahl who just had to push the ball to the bottom of the goal. In the last minute, Dinamo scored but it only matters for the statistics…

If you want to come to the next Ajax game, pay attention to the Babylonix emails, our posters around the school and most important participate in our activities.

See you next time!

Congrats winners!

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Amsterdam Dance Event this weekend!!! Check all about it in this website:

http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/

Any Saturday
Museumtrip: Muiderslot Castle (openings 12.00-17.00 hours in november – march)
Adres Herengracht 1, in Muiden
http://www.muiderslot.nl/default.aspx
http://www.museum.nl/index.cfm/museum/Muiderslot
 
Going Out Saturday
http://www.thego.nl/netherlands_en_amsterdam-dance_35_24.html
8 places to go.
 
Sunday 25 October
Chill at the beach Sunday hangover
Dining, Drinks, Lounging (time 12:00 – 02:00) in: Rapa Nui
adres Boulevard Barnaart 27, 2041JA Zandvoort

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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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On Thursday 15th of October we will be hosting a Nintendo Wii tournament and the winner will get FREE TICKETS to Ajax Amsterdam vs Dinamo Zagreb for the Europa UEFA League.

Come to the HES Atrium (1st floor, right next to the book store), we will have a LCD TV and you will be able to play Wii Sport games and the one who score the highest WINS 2 tickets to the game. Don’t forget to leave your phone number or email to one of our BABYLONIX staff and at the end of the afternoon, the winner will be announce in our homepage.

RSPV to the event in BABYLONIX NETWORK

See you there!!

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Last Thursday, several classes who follow the Supply-Chain-Management courses, received a guest lecture from a German professor named Harald Gleißner. The Professor, who came all the way down from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, gave us more insight in the basics of Logistics. It began with a brief presentation about the essential factors dealt with related to the supply chain. Once that was finished, the students went to the North-Serre and started their case study. The case was made in groups, and spread trough the whole Serre, everyone was working very eager on their assignments. Once they were finished they had to write a particular assignment on a whiteboard. All the groups came up with a different answer to the same question, which was exactly Mr. Gleißners idea. All the groups drew their vision of a supply chain from the company belonging to the case. The students started to discuss each others assignments, and they soon saw and understood the essential message which mister Gleißner wanted to give us. In logistics, not every answer that deviates from the basic answer is wrong. With the right idea behind it, it’s never wrong. Of course they already had a solid background due to the lessons in SCM we had from Mr. Draijer. Nevertheless the lecture from the Professor showed the students new perspectives in Logistics and the visit was definitely worth it!

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