EPRD - a year later with me being the interviewer this round...

Well, was looking at my post a year ago on the AIESEC internship interviews. Time flies and this year, i'm on the other end, yet not as relax as I could have been. Why? Cause I find out that it is equally difficult to assess whether a candidate is suitable. Maybe it is my first time or maybe it's because of my happy-go-lucky attitude thats going against me.

None the less, it sure has been a learning experience - that what I LOVE about AIESEC, there's always something new to learn and to reflect upon. This time, my key take-aways are I need to improve my note-taking skills; this has been an area that I had been weak in and do require some immediate attention to improve myself professionally.

Back to the EPRD, personally, I'd try to pass as many candidates as possible if I do see any positive side of the candidate or rather no significant weaknesses. And thankfully to the system, that not quite possible as it requires all 3 panel interviews to unanimously agree to that conclusion, one who doesn't agree and out goes the candidate.

Basically, there isn't really much of a issue with the candidates that we have the chance to interview, they are all bright, ambitious and do know what they are after or wanting to make use of the opportunity that AIESEC offers to clarify what they are after. Some of the common faults they do make is they didn't really present how they could be ideal representatives of AIESEC as well as representatives of Singapore; others include what i consider extreme behavior of workaholic, some really didn't really have the complete picture of what AIESEC exchange is all about, some is the possibilities of not able to find suitable internships for the short duration that they indicated.

Maybe because for all the interviewees that we had do not have relevant @XP, they don't really understand the @ culture as well as the @ values, hence they are not really as @ly prepared as @ers would be. I do hope that they would be added to mailing list for @ public events so as to know more about @