{"id":5020,"date":"2016-02-16T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/02\/16\/de-voorzitter-job-heidkamp\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:18","slug":"de-voorzitter-job-heidkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/02\/16\/de-voorzitter-job-heidkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"The President: Job Heidkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Job Heidkamp<\/span><\/p>

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In the section The President, EM<\/em>\u00a0interviews a different leading light from a student association. This month, it\u2019s Job Heidkamp from student association In Duplo.<\/em><\/p>\n\t

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Name:\u00a0Job Heidkamp<\/strong><\/p>\n

Age:\u00a021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Programme: bachelor Economics & Business Economics, bachelor Fiscal Economics and master Corporate Law<\/strong><\/p>\n

President since:\u00a0September 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motto:\u00a0\u2018Professionalism and pleasure\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

In Duplo<\/a> is the association for students on the MSc.LL.M.-programme, which enables students at Erasmus University to combine Economics & Business Economics and Law. In Duplo was founded in the summer of 1999 and has been an official student association since 2002, currently with around 650 members.<\/p>\n

How many hours a week do you work for In Duplo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say about forty hours, not including drinks, attending events and giving talks.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are your strengths?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m good at maintaining an overview, I generally enjoy my work and I\u2019m good at motivating people. I\u2019m also good at mediating and generating consensus in discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And your weaknesses?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not always a good listener, so that\u2019s something I try to be aware of. As far as I understand, my fellow board members are now fairly happy with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What has surprised you most during your time as chairman?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t expected people to be so different and have such totally different approaches to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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What issues are requiring special attention this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe professionalisation of our formal activities in particular. For example, in January there was a legal week Meet the lawyers<\/em>\u00a0and we reorganised the study trip and the congress. The number of readers of our online magazine De Duplomaat<\/em>\u00a0is also growing very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

What have you learned so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned to get on with many different kinds of people and ways of working and to listen to everyone. As the chairman, you\u2019re obviously the face of the association for the outside world and you have to address large groups. That\u2019s something I\u2019ve also had to learn, though I still feel a healthy apprehension beforehand.<\/p>\n

Were you always someone who took the lead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, not at all. Until the age of nineteen, I was a keen athlete, doing judo at a pretty high level. However, an injury forced me to quit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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And how do you enjoy being the boss of something?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not the boss, nor do I aspire to act the boss. I want to achieve something with the people around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do your parents think about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat varies. On the one hand, they\u2019re pleased that I\u2019m doing something different, but I think my father felt it would just involve a year of drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

And?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not as much drinking as you might think. Although I\u2019ve obviously learned to enjoy a beer or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you hope people will say at the end of your tenure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like my fellow board members to feel I was a useful chairman and that they had fun with me. And that the members of In Duplo can see that we\u2019ve moved the association forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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