An important fact in the English Track class is that French students are mixed with foreign students which are doing their exchange in France. Most of them came from Asia, especially from India and the Philippines.

Most of the courses studied were general (Human Resources, International Business, International Accounting, Innovation Management, Business and Service Marketing, …)  and followed theTelecom Business School French program. The advantage, compared to the first year at Telecom Business School was the studies of few courses, the exams and then, started other courses.

Most of notation criteria were both a presentation and a final writing exam. In this way, we did many group cases to present in class. To my mind, the most interesting and hardest one was in “International Business” where we had to analyze a company and anticipate its international evolution for the next five years. With my group, we studied Yum! Brand (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) and it was very interesting because we could compare the different strategies developed all around the world and  analyze them to give our predictions.

A very good course was also “Management Techniques and Human Resources Management” which considered all the human process in the different companies. The most interesting part of this course was the comparisons between all the nationalities in the class.

During this semester, I had the opportunity to work with foreign people (most of professors wanted mixed group for the group work) and to see how they work. In France, most of us are working just the minimum to succeed to their exams but in India for example, they work very hard to be the best of the promotion. Sometimes, it was very difficult to coordinate our work because foreign people are travelling during the weekend. It’s even more difficult when you are involved in one or more associations because you have just the time to work during the weekend…

Finally, I found this semester very useful for me because I felt a progress in my English, especially in comprehension and in public speaking thanks to all the presentations. I saw my increasing results thanks to the TOEFL. You can compare my two results, with the same level of training.

The global village is an important event organized by AIESEC. Every country which is on the campus is incited to participate and to present its culture. To do that, each country or French region create a team and presents especially food and drink specialties and cultural objects, maps and decoration on their stands. For example, this year, in the Chinese stand, a guy could draw your name in Chinese. This year 25 stands were in the forum for 23 nationalities and 800 persons were present to this important event.

The other particularity  of this event is that there are many dances or singing interpretation. We can see traditional clothes and show demonstrate both be foreign people and school associations.

It’s a convivial event where everyone is happy to share its culture and to discuss about it. Sometimes, you can have questions about one specific country because it’s the one where you are going for your exchange semester and you are curious to discover more about this country thanks to foreigners.

To eat there is a very simple principle, you buy a ticket to the AIESEC stand, each ticket represents 0,50€. You just need to exchange your tickets against food, it’s the same for all the offered services by the different countries.

During this events, I decided to eat foreign food because I know the French food

To begin, I ate a Spring role, which was nice. And then, I tried a Filipino traditional food which was chicken with rice and a kind of “bouguignonne” sauce, I really liked it ! To finish, I tried Algerian and Moroccan cakes. Both of them were really good !

The Global Village give some prices at the end of the event:

-          The price for the best show was attributed to the India/Malaysia/Nepal/ Sri-Lanka stand.

-          The price for the best food was attributed to the Antilles stand.

-          The price for the best ambiance was attributed to the Morocco-Algeria stand.

-          The price for the best decoration was attributed to the French Polynesia stand.

-          Miss GV is Japanese and Mister GV is Moroccan

AIESEC is the biggest student NGO in the world and a permanent member of the UNESCO committee. Its goal is to help student, from all over the world, to find a humanitarian or a professional internship abroad.

AIESEC members have many AIESEC meetings, national and international. In the last one, you can meet many people from all countries and exchange different strategies methods. You also have many lectures in connection with your hub of activity.

AIESEC IT Sudparis is divided in seven hubs :

-          Financial hub : takes care of the budget and the resources.

-          Event hub : organized all events which takes place on the campus like lectures and the “Global Village”.

-          Communication hub : all about extern and intern communication.

-          HR hub : manages all human resources to favor the group cohesion.

-          Business Relationship hub : manages extern relationship with the companies to find partnership with them.

-          ICX and OGX hub : This two hubs are here for students. ICX is taking care of foreign people who are coming to France to do an internship. OGW is here to help Telecom Ecole de Management and Telecom Sudparis students to find an internship abroad.

How to integrate AIESEC ?

You just need to go to the presentation at the beginning of the year, go to the specific presentation in the hub you are interested in and take a motivation interview with the hub you like the most !