subject: Students' Unions: Tips for Becoming a Successful Candidate [print this page] Students' Unions: Tips for Becoming a Successful Candidate
Requirements for candidates Before participating in students' unions election race, a person has to evaluate one's chances on victory critically. It is important to have a sensible view of one's abilities in any life situation. A student has to think over one's contribution to college history. If he/she is ready to defend interests of the student community and knows what it means, he/she will become a successful candidate. For enhancing one's chances for victory, a person has to work on one's program and slogans. It would be useful to ask one's friends to help you. Their moral support may become a decisive factor for your victory. Even if a person has got brilliant ideas concerning the improvement of students' living standards, it is important to compile an effective program. The ability to sell one's carefully polished image is important for becoming a successful candidate. Some people can easily persuade others and gain authority of electorate. Other candidates, on the contrary, have problems with establishing contacts, though might become good members of students' unions. It is important to work on one's election program and develop one's gift of the gab for successful participating in election race. Useful tips for compiling a program Most candidates are aimed at making their programs as alluring as possible. Still, it is important to bear in mind that the candidate will have to keep one's promises in future. Before making certain plans for improving the living standards of the students' community, a person has to analyze their possible impact on the future of the community in general. Most college rules are predetermined by realities of the teaching-learning process, all changes need to be well-planned. The main characteristics of a successful program: logical structure; weighty arguments; persuasiveness.
