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Membership benefits

Dear alumni
Have you ever thought of becoming an official, paying member of the association or renewing your membership?

The benefits

There is a number of benefits which you can get by doing so:

• You get access to the CEMS Student & Alumni Directories currently consisting of 11 000 alumni and 1 000 students.
• You get access to all global events - e.g. the Annual Events, Career Forum, Waltzing Days, or events organized by professional groups.
• You get access to online and in-person mentoring as well as the online job market.
• You will receive the CEMS magazine and eNewsletters.
• Last but not least: By paying your membership fee you allow the local committee (yes, it is us :-)) to organize more and better events. And - you somehow give back what you get from CEMS.

If you want to know more please let us know or check the CAA website.

Our plan for the next year

In the upcoming year our goal is to increase the number of paying members and thus improve our activities and also re-gain our right to take part and vote at CAA Assembly.

Vojtech
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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Impressions from the General CEMS Alumni Assembly 2017

What an impressive team of dedicated, smart and mature people, who can not only discuss, share best practices and brainstorm about future direction of the CEMS Alumni Association but also create a clear strategy, split responsibilities and motivate each other to act upon them.

This is the very first impression that comes to my mind when reflecting on the General CEMS Alumni Association (CAA) Assembly held during the first October weekend in Warsaw.

The General CAA Aseembly 2017 was hosted by the LC in Poland and the Warsaw School of Economics. The participants were CAA global board memebers, CEMS Alumni global team and presidents of LCs. 

The Czech Republic did not take part in this event for several years. Nevertheless it seemed as if we were always represented considering the very warm welcome from all other attendees and the immediate inclusion into the future strategy setting. 

The CEMS Programme is very well known for the highly engaged community of CEMS Students. 

Yet seeing the same level of dedication and commitment among experienced CEMS Alumni reminded me again how unique the CEMS Alumni Community actually is and that CEMS is without any doubt an amazing life-long learning journey.

  

Apart from the intense official programme, there was also space for social gathering and informal get-together. After the weekend in Warsaw I again understood the full meaning of the unbelievable Polish hospitality. 

What are the key updates from the Warsaw meeting?

• We have a new CAA Board with Alberto Constans as the new CAA President. There is tremendous amount of experience, expertise as well as the dedication among the team members of the new board team and LC Presidents. 
• Thanks to the broad CEMS Alumni sruvey held recently, we have objective in-depth insight into the preferences of CEMS Alumni all around the world. 
• CAA Board has defined a clear global strategy:
• Getting the basics right
• Building strong and unique value proposition of CEMS Alumni  

                      

Which global projects will be Czech Republic contributing to?

• Delivery of the CEMS Alumni LC start-up package 
• Driving Thoughtleadership and CEMS Social Partnership
• CEMS Talk to become a global concept

What are the goals of the Alumni Community in the Czech Republic after the Warsaw event?

• Increase the number of active CEMS Alumni and work pro-actively with fresh graduates
• Expand the CEMS Alumni Board Team
• Continue with regular CEMS Talk and bring them also online
• Deliver one flagship social event per year
• Intensify the collaboration with CEMS Club Prague 

What do we need?

• We need Your help and support. If you are interested in the CEMS Alumni Community and want to join as a new member of the CEMS Alumni Board or rather offer a hand on an ad-hoc basis - please let us know at cemsalumni@seznam.cz

Stay tuned. There is a lot coming in the CEMS Alumni Community :)

Warm regards from Warsaw,

Pavlína

on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team

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Czech Alumni strongly represented in the global CEMS Alumni newsletter

We are happy to see how many great updates in the global CEMS Alumni Newsletter come from the Czech Alumni ;-). The new issue of the newsletter is to be downloaded HERE.

Election results

As you know the election of the new board of CEMS Alumni Prague took place during the Gala Night. It is my pleasure to announce the results.

All candidates were elected so the board will be quite broad - the more activities and results we can expect.

• Jan Plajner President
• Lucie Zadražilová Vice-President
• Olga Nýdlová Regular BM
• Judita Bihellerová Regular BM
• Tomáš Mucha Regular BM
• Karolína Štochlová Regular BM
• Petra Píšťková Regular BM
• Katarína Paulíčková Regular BM
• Jan Horáček Treasurer

Honza Plajner will take the chance and introduce his board as well as their plans soon.

Congratulations and good luck in your term!

Vojtech

CEMS Alumni Director

Dear all
based on the recent changes in the CEMS Alumni Association the CEMS headquartes is now looking for a new CEMS Alumni Director.
Plase share the job posting with anyone you think may be interested.

Position Overview
The CEMS Alumni Director (CAD) is a new role created whereby a professional manager will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive alumni engagement initiative. Specifically, the CAD will focus on engaging our alumni community (7’700 alumni to date and growing by around 700+ per year), development and execution of a communication strategy for our alumni to ensure high engagement levels of alumni with CEMS. 
In conjunction with the CAA Board, the CAD is responsible to manage the alumni involvement with CEMS in areas such as mentoring, career development, communication, alumni social events, etc. One relevant focus will also enhancement of revenue sources for the CAA.

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable alumni engagement model that maximizes the value of being a member of the CEMS Alumni Association Develop and lead CEMS alumni communications initiatives (via Newsletter, website, magazine, social networks, etc.)
• Ensure that the number of paying members increases year on year in line with the growth of the membership base to achieve and maintain the financial self-sustainability of the CAA
• Support the local committees (LCs) of the CAA in event organization and communication
• Develop a strong, positive network of relationships with key stakeholders of CEMS
• Keep abreast of developments in Alumni Association best practice across the globe
• Ensure the proper maintenance of the CAA Accounts in compliance with the French law
• Sets up the basis for funds raising to ensure financial self sustainability and development of the CAA over time 

Competencies, Experience & Qualifications

• Previous experience of at least 5 years in having built or managed a successful project forengaging an alumni or member community, ideally within the business of higher educationenvironment; alternatively the candidate must have been an active member of the CEMS AlumniAssociation
• S/he will have successfully leveraged social networking tools (such as LinkedIn, Facebook,Xing, and Twitter) for community engagement
• Capable of working autonomously per identified and given targets, managing professionalactivities and relationship on a global level
• Proven ability as networker to build meaningful relationships with remote groups andindividuals as well as manage and energize volunteers
• Exceptional ability to communicate, collaborate with and influence at all levels of anorganization
• Self-starter personality with the creativity to launch and manage new initiatives that enhancethe value and connectedness of the alumni community
• Available to travel to CEMS key events and defined meetings; work on evenings andweekends might be required occasionally and on advanced noticed
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Excellent written, spoken communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in English (any further language is an advantage, especially French)
• Graduate degree required (master degree is a plus)

Remuneration and Benefits
Competitive (Subject to negotiation) 

Location
Office location: HEC campus, Jouy en Josas (Paris, France). Remote working possible. 

Selection Process
First phone interview with selected CAA Board Members, followed by face-to-face interviews atHEC campus. 

To apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to yannick.migotto@cemsmail.org by March 15th, 2013. Please include “Reference: CEMS Alumni Director Application” as subject.

Becoming a member of CEMS Alumni Association Prague

Hi,

This time I am not posting an invitation to the event organized by CEMS Alumni Association Prague, CEMS Club or someone from alumni, nor offering you the opportunity to lecture at the University of Economics :-).

Beginning of the year is the best moment for registration and payment of membership fees of CEMS Alumni Association.

What are the benefits membership brings has been already written. To recap - it's e.g. discounts on events in the Czech Republic, access to various databases including EBSCO, for some of you the greatest benefit can be the possibility to participate on annual events.

We think, however, that the main reasons for membership in the association are different. It is mainly an expression of belonging to a growing number of students and graduates of all CEMS and what environment CEMS means. Opportunity to study at good schools meet during their studies and after with smart people who have different interests and motivation to do something extra. It also means supporting alumni activities not only on global, but especially on the Czech level.

What do you think? Does it make sense to you? If so, I encourage you to pay yearly (€ 60) or lifetime fee (600 EUR) or its variants for couples. You may pay via cems.org or by using our Czech account (more here).

Together with this and previous boards of CEMS Alumni Association Prague we devoted quite lots of energy to alumni activities, so we would be happy if the number of Czech alumni once again slightly increases and moves the Czech Republic to the front of the peloton.

Best regards

Vojta & Olga, Katka, Lucka, Klara, Richard

Paying your membership fee

As this is the best moment for paying your membership fee for 2013 here is a simple guideline on how you can do that. There are two options.

1. Paying on cems.org with your credit card. Go to www.cems.org, log in at the top. After logging in click on Alumni Zone in the left menu and select Online Payment. Then press on Pay your annual fee. So, finally you are the right place to pay your membership. Now just follow the steps - and don't forget to correctly select LC Czech Republic.
2. The other way to make your payment is to pay it to our account 2900119575/2010 at Fio banka. If you select this option pay 1560 CZK and let me know that you send the payment.

Please note that the first option is preferred as you will be directly given the CAA membership. With the other option it may take some time to transfer the money to CEMS and then making your registration.

CEMS alumni members in Prague - numbers and value

Ever wondered how many alumni are there in Prague?

So far, more than 300 cemsies from VSE graduated in CEMS MIM. Even though tens of alumni have participated in various professional, fun and sport events the average number of CAA members (i.e. the paying members) is just above 17, if calculated from 2007 it is 22.

As we are developing especially new professional activities and increasing the quality of our events we are looking forward to reaching much higher numbers of alumni this year.

To give you an overview of how successful we are in the international context just check the chart below. As you can see last year the Czech Republic was in the middle of the field dominated by Switzerland and especially Germany.

The beginning of the year is the best time to become a member and be a true member of the alumni "family". Even though there is a number of benefits the membership offers, the main benefit is something that is usually not on the list: being a member of a community of open- and internationally-minded persons with similar background yet different personalities, hobbies and careers who can share their experience and enrich you both profesionally and personally. Also, with your membership you help promoting the CEMS MIM degree and thus expand the cems family.



In the following weeks we will update you on the benefits, the planned events of CAA Prague and the way you can contribute. I am looking forward to welcoming you personally at our events and in the CEMS Alumni community!
Vojtech

News from St. Gallen: CAA General Assembly 2012

Dear CEMS Alumni, we would like to bring you summary of the biggest CEMS Alumni International Event of 2012. The University of St. Gallen (SGH) hosted this year's CEMS Annual Events, traditionally connected with students' graduation, academic meetings and most importantly for you, with General Assembly of the CEMS Alumni Association.

The official Alumni meeting took place on December 1st and we had representatives of 10 Local Alumni Commitees voting this time (CZ, AT, DE, FR, UK, IT, DK, PL, BE, CH). Based on new statuses of the CAA, local committees could elect some members of the new CAA executive body - the CAA Board (it should stay in active mandate for three years). See new structure of the elected CAA Board below, there were some great candidates among junior and senior Alumni and also among dedicated members of Local Committees who are willing to help promote CEMS Alumni network on international level. This new board now has to vote on the position of the upcoming CAA President.

St.Gallen was beautifuly covered with snow and with Xmas markets season starting, it was a very enjoyable stay for both students and alumni, not to mention great Swiss organization skills around the whole event. Alumni program was also very full this time. Besides Friday's and Saturday's parties, there were special Alumni Cheese Fondue dinner on Saturday and Alumni Brunch on Sunday, both organized by LC Switzerland. This created nice atmosphere for Alumni to talk, get to know each other or meet again. If you want to participate as Alumni enjoying the power of CEMS network, do not forget to pay your CAA membership fee for 2013 and you can enjoy next year's event in Barcelona :-).

Other key callouts from Alumni Assembly:

• CAA Board will hire the CAA director in first half of 2013 and this will be full time paid employee responsible for operations of the CAA Board. CEMS Headquarters did not sponsor CAA anyhow in 2012, but in 2013, they plan to contribute on professionalisation of the CAA, under condition of hiring the CAA director (could be up to 72,500 EUR).
• Alumni membership fee stays at 60 EUR per person for 2013.
• CAA holds 109,996€ in open reserves and 50,900€ in reserves on funding of life-long members (split in multiple accounts, 76,500€ is now in risk-free savings account since 11/2012), CAA can propose how these funds could be used going forward or LCs could propose to organize a bigger pan-European event, new CAA board will be able to decide on use of these reserves. These are international CAA funds, they do not belong to dedicated LCs.
• Update on Linked In Group: 5250 members connected, we should more promote to raise awareness of CEMS through LinkedIn, please add CEMS ecucation to your profile, among those 5250 members, we have some very good senior profiles, they might not be paying members anymore, but they connected through LinkedIn.
• CAA needs to work on career service offerings – besides personal networking, this area has never been very successful, CEMS job market is empty and LinkedIn group slowly starts bringing some interesting job offers, but we should have a separate professional db where paying alumni can look for job opportunities – very good added value. Torsten R. presented proposal to use French company manageurs.com which is active with alumni associations in French speaking countries. They would need to translate their product fully into English and also start offering more opportunities outside of French speaking regions, but they are very flexible in terms of systematic solution. Corporate partners could also use special access, paying alumni could access exclusively.

CEMS Alumni Association calls for candidates for the international CAA Board

Dear Alumni, in this post, our Czech Alumni Association would like to inform you about three important news in regards to development of CEMS Alumni network on global level:

1. There have been numerous discussions about future governance of CEMS Alumni Association on central level and on Oct 6, 2012 in Milan, current members of CEMS executive commitee together with representatives of local commitees have signed new statuses of the CEMS Alumni Association aiming at higher professionalization of alumni activities and streghthening of their impact going forward. Czech LC was represented by LC Poland and their treasurer Ewa Szczerba voted on behalf of us.
2. Based on these statuses, there is a need to elect the executive body of CEMS Alumni Association - the CAA Board. The call for candidates has just begun and deadline runs until Nov 17th. You can read about details of CAA membership in statuses (see the link above in point 1.). What is important should you consider your candidature?

• 3 seats are reserved to active paying LC representatives (representing local alumni associations)
• 2 seats are reserved to paying alumni who graduated 10 or more years ago
• 2 seats are reserved to paying alumni from the last 10 years since graduation

3. Based on applications submitted to ec@cemsalumni.org, the new CAA board 2013 will be elected by the General Assembly during Annual Events in St. Gallen on Dec 1, 2012. LC Czech Republic will be represented by Olga Nydlova to participate during this election.

Do not hesitate to contact also the Czech Alumni team for more questions.
Kind regards, Olga

Business book summaries - subscription extended

It is our pleasure to inform that the business books summaries subscription for CAA paying members have been renewed.

By being a paying alumnus or alumnua you can get an access to both written and audio summaries from fields like

• business biographies,
• business strategy,
• customer focus,
• economics and finance
• or personal growth.

Currently there are more than 1000 summaries of books from the last 20 years. Once you are a paiyng member you can easily downloand the books from your private zone at cems.org.

You can also read about other benefits of being a CAA member in one of our previous articles.

CEMS Alumni Association Prague Team - Vojta, Richard, Pája, Olča, Valča, Katka

Benefits of CEMS Alumni Association membership

Why should I pay my CEMS Alumni membership fee? Paying 60 EUR a year may seem too much for – what? We can bet you are not aware of all benefits that the membership can bring you.

Let us share with you all the benefits the membership brings to you.

 
Benefits on local level – or what you will get in Prague

• Priority participation in events organized by CEMS Alumni Association Prague – if there is limited capacity the paying members will always be served first.
• Reduced participation fee on local CEMS Alumni events – when possible paying members will pay reduced fee.

International benefits – or what you will get wherever you are

• Possibility to attend the CEMS Annual Events – this year in November in St. Gallen.

• Free Access to EBSCO – world known database providing 1,540 full-text business magazines and journals, including publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics etc.
• Business Book Summaries – portal providing comprehensive and concise summaries of best business books from the area of entrepreneurship, leadership, change management, personal development, social responsibility, marketing (offer valid until 30/06/2012 – but it may be prolonged)
• Print version of the CEMS Magazine summarizing main news and achievement in the CEMS Community

• Free downloads from WetFeet – insider guides focus on successful career (e.g. Negotiating your salary and perks, Careers with a conscience etc.) – more on-line.

• Free Access to GoingGlobal – portal focused on international career showing country profiles, contacts to local executive search, job offers all round the world.
• Access to exclusive part of the Carrier Service Registration within the CEMS Database.
• Access to CEMS Alumni on Knok – the home exchange network of CEMS Alumni enabling you to travel to other places and exchange your home with other CEMS members.
• 20% reduction on Spanish course in Argentina and Urugay.

Last but not least – note that 20 EUR from every membership paid is sent back to the Local Committee which can then use for reduced fees or any other purpose.


Interested to join?
Then login into: CEMS web portal, where you can directly pay the annual fee of 60 EUR or become a lifelong member for 600 EUR.

We are happy to assist you in case of any questions.

Sincerely Yours,

CEMS Alumni Board Czech Republic – Vojta, Richard, Pája, Olča, Valča, Katka

"Becoming Professional"

What is this new fresh CEMS Alumni Board Team preparing for you? Our main motto is: “Become Professional”. Based on that we want to focus on two main areas:

1. Professional Networking

• Mission: Build a platform, on which CEMS Alumni can meet together, share experience and knowledge – in an unofficial atmosphere but still in the top-class environment
• Goal: Intensify the involvement of broader spectrum of CEMS Alumni in activities prepared by CEMS Alumni Board
• Tools: Organize one or two main event(s) of the year for CEMS Alumni Community, prepare regular social, sport and cultural gatherings for CEMS Alumni – each in a bit different tone

2. Increased awareness of CEMS Alumni Association in the Czech Republic

• Mission: Achieve a reputation of highly professional group that keeps on cooperating inside as well as outside while cooperating with VŠE, current and future CEMS Students
• Goal: Build a collaboration platform with CEMS Program at VŠE, enhance a cooperation with CEMS Club
• Tools: Get CEMS Alumni involved in the lectures at VŠE, support CEMS Club in organizing main event in each semester, strengthen the “Meet the… “ concept, build a unified communication strategy for all stakeholders

With a strong commitment in our motto of “Become Professional” we are looking forward to the great year that is ahead of us.

 

We will inform you about detailed calendar of our activities soon. In the meantime we will welcome your ideas and comments. What is and what could CEMS Alumni be for you?

 

Yours CEMS Alumni Board: Vojtech, Olga, Pavlina, Valerie, Katka, Richard

Farewell with Mrs. Subrtova

After many years Mrs. Subrtova, the CEMS Student Coordinator in Prague, is saying goodbye. For most of us she was the main face of CEMS - answering our questions, dealing with our requests, accompanying us at the graduation ceremony.

On February 23 we said goodbye to her during a great event which took place in Restaurant Austria. Some 30 CEMS alumni from different classes gathered to meet her have fun and also meet other alumni.

Listening to one of the speeches

 

Karel reminding us of what Mrs. Subrtova meant to us

Mrs. Subrtova and Gabriela Bohmowa who will succeed her

Richard talking to Eva

If you want to see more picture just come to our web album.

CAA Newsletter - boost your career with the free Wet feet

Dear alumni
a new CAA newsletter is on-line. It contains the following articles:

• Season’s greetings
• CEMS Annual Events in Lisbon
• New CEMS career services
• A CEMS initiative to promote: Senstation and the CEMS Social Business competition!
• A Local Committee in the spotlight: LC Hungary
• The CEMS student voice
• CEMS in the press
• Forthcoming CEMS events
• New job offers (10 positions)

I would like to especially bring your attention to free downloading of Wet feet guides which could help you in improving your careers options.
Read the full newsletter here.

Offer Internships to CEMS students

This is an excerpt from the CAA Newsletter May 2011.

Do you remember when you were looking for your CEMS internship abroad? It may not have been easy to find the right one that met your expectations, but it was probably a very important experience at the beginning of your career which helped you to be where you are right now.
If you have ever asked yourself what you could do to give something back to CEMS, the answer is very easy: Post the internship offers of your company to the CEMS Job Market!

There are two options to post offers to the JobMarket.

• The preferred one is that your company registers and accesses the job market with its own company login. Corporate Partners can also screen the CVs of students and alumni.
• The other option is for you to directly access the Job Market using as company profile "CEMS Alumni offers for students". Simply access the JobMarket as a Company with the login name "alumni@cems.org" and password "offersfromalumni". On the left hand side under "Positions" -> "New position" -> "Internship", you can enter your offers. Please note: since the offer will be displayed with the company name: "CEMS Alumni offers for students" it is important that you put your company name at the beginning of the field "Position". In the fields "Contact name" and "Email", please put your name and your @cemsmail.org address. Otherwise we cannot validate your offer.

Video message from Executive Committee of CAA

Elected for a two-year mandate in December 2010, the new team of Alberto Frisiero (President), Torsten Röwekamp (Vice-President), Blandine Avot (Secretary General) and Nicola Spano (Treasurer) present themselves.

CEMS Alumni Association Executive Committee presentational film from CEMS on Vimeo.

CEMS Alumni Association Newsletter

Here comes the third CEMS Alumni Association video newsletter.

This newsletter features:

• CEMS Annual Events: The CEMS Alumni crowd is getting bigger: more than 500 graduated at Cologne totalling the number of alumni to more than 5.500. Beside the graduation, Cologne also hosted the first CEMS Alumni Professional Events with a panel discussion and workshops on the topic “Crisis as a Career Opportunity”. We have received some very positive feedback. Enclosed some impressions for you …
• CEMS Magazine – May Edition: After an amazing first edition, we are quickly approaching the next CEMS Magazine in May. The graphic and editorial makeover of the CEMS magazine in November was successful and it is my pleasure to be able to offer you another opportunity to contribute. The governing topic of this edition will be “New Age of Branding”. Please find further details at the link below, including the title and subject of the central feature for the May issue and the deadline for sending articles (Friday March 19, 2010). Do not hesitate to contact Agata Rundo if you have any further questions on editorial contributions to CEMS Magazine (call for contributions, ppt).
• Last but not least, please continue your support and renew your membership. You can do it directly on CEMS.org within a minute.

CEMS Merchandise

We are pleased to announce that for the first time in history an on-line store with CEMS merchandise has been open.

Here are the main conditions:

• Sales period: until Saturday, March 6th. After this period , the website will be closed and no further order accepted.
• Expected reception of merchandises: Monday, March 29th.
• You can pay either by Paypal or by credit card.
• For individual orders, merchandises will be delivered to the Cems Club of the school of your choice. Shipping fees are set to 1€ per product.
• For group orders(>200€), we can deliver to a personal adress. Please contact us before the purchase since there might be extra fee.
• 20% of the selling price of T-shirts will go for the School For Africa Project. A nice way to do a good deed!
• If you wish to download the catalogue you may do so here (pdf, 362 kB)