Welcome to the new and improved version of AIESEC IASI’s Exchange Blog. What treasures are you bound to found here? Stories and updates about great people who matched and signed in for the time of their life, or stories about trainees that came to us to spice out our lives with their smiles and their knowledge. Story of the week?

His name is Bogdan Rusu and he is one long-term AIESECer. 4 years in AIESEC and tenths of people who consider him as “one in a million”. After working with us he has finally decided to complete his experience by leaving for exchange. His enthusiasm was revealed in a mail sent to our local mail address. We’ve posted it here wishing good luck to those who fall into his steps.

“I am continuously smiling since 5 o’clock.”

On the street, this evening, as I was walking from my job place to the AIESEC headquarters, everybody was looking at me suspiciously because I had the wide smile of a crazy Child, hit by the train of happiness. The reason is simple: I had just taken the last step in my matching process: “the interview” with those from the Linz enterprise, from Austria, the city on the Danube  that will be my house in the next year.

And if you’d only know what kind of interview it was! I had prepared myself for it the entire

weekend – for two days I felt like I was in College again: studying, with my eyes scheming through the courses, to remind myself of some notions that I hadn’t worked with for three years; I was a little bit nervous about what they were going to ask, how will it be, if they will test me, if they will ask me tricky questions for who knows how many hours…

At five o’clock I talked to them for 5 minutes. “Bogdan, you say that you have worked in Java before?” Me:”Of course!” My future manager:” Perfect! That means that we are waiting for you here. If you want to know something more about the city or the company, let us know. Beside we will set things up with the AIESEC local from here, and we are waiting for you on the 28^th.

The thing that I hadn’t bet my cards on it, and that seems that are happening, both on TT(technical traineeships), and I suppose on MT(management trainer ship) too is this: those who will  interview you, although your managers, are more often than not, less prepared that you. If you have been selected to join AIESEC and leave for a certain domain, be sure that your evaluation and your selection process were tougher and more objective than the interview you’ll have to sustain with your TN taker, and that you are prepared for the area you’ll be working on.

Right now, I am overly excited and I wanted to share those feelings with you. I hope I’ll hear a lot more of you in the following period, at least as anxious to start this great experience. Thank you, AIESEC Iasi- the generations of members that I had worked with and by whose sides I have formed myself, because, beside the time I had invested in this organization,  I had received back knowledge, experience, friends. On 26^th June I’m leaving for Austria, but I will keep you updated with details about my experience, pictures, videos and interesting stories. I have to follow new dreams, face new challenges and make new beautiful memories.

I embrace you all with the firm promises, that, although in a different country, I’ll stay close to AIESEC Iasi.”

Good luck, Bogdan!

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