My first Love in AIESEC…. OGX!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first taking responsibility in my @xp was to take charge of SN Recruitment Process, the experience who really involved me to AIESEC life and help me to decide to run for AIESEC.

In the past years in LC Arequipa, few students use to went to the informative sessions, and even less decided to run the SN recruitment process, in fact most of the past AIESEC members from LC Arequipa, are family related to other members or family friends, so AIESEC was becoming an association, but only from family and close friends, why? Well easy, a bad promotions campaign, or a not focused recruitment process.

How the student market looks open for this kind of opportunities(meaning X), I decide to run an open and bigger process, starting with a huge promotions campaign. Spam promotions to all virtual communities (each university, by faculty, etc), posters only in economic and management faculty and also information system faculty, media promotion in radio and newspapers, but the best idea where: call to each top student from the university offering this exchange and leadership opportunity, y remember the promotion quote “Leadership, Exchange, AIESEC and you!”, so, do you want to know what we get???... 480 students in the informative session, close to 300 students applying to AIESEC, and only for 10 positions… I just can say, it was the best recruitment experience of my life.

All the LC worked in the selection, interview, and review boards, etc. It was a great feeling inside the LC culture, each member excited to have new SNs in the LC, and each member excited to get involve in the OPS activities.

After a great recruitment process, with 6 very great MT profiles, and 4 TT profiles, we start the second part of the process, the matching and training process, and I had the luck to be SN Manager of 3 of them.

In the Christianism Formation class, or Introduction to Philosophy class, my teacher says, why you are in the world? What is your purpose of life? How you think you can be an impact in the society? …. So I didn’t think that this SN manager role helps me to understand better those questions.

I remember when I was first year student in the university, I meet a guy who I believed he was a leader, and I used to follow until once I hear from him “when you are young, you want to change the world, but after you get back to the reality and you only want to change your life”, after that I felt very disappointed, but then the AIESEC XP came to my life.

Being SN Manager was the most wonderful XP for me, I became a very close friend from each of my SNs, always knowing their attitudes, preferences, motivations, and even get to know their families, nice mothers and cool fathers, and sometimes beautiful sisters, hehehe (that's other history), etc, and also training them with basic AIESEC stuffs, etc. After one or two months they started to match and later realize; but the most wonderful gift I could get was, “Yoel, thanks for all, you made this possible, greetings from… Denmark, India, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, USA…” students who saw a far away dream to work in other country, back home and get a good job position in a big company… I didn’t knew this point of view until a few months ago, when most of my SNs started to came back to PERU, or starting to moving abroad; the first call was for have a lunch, a couple of beers, and receive feedback and gratitude words from them, those words are the most wonderful gift you can get. You CHANGED their lives, and you are becoming a POSITIVE CHANGE AGENTE to the society.

I just can add, I have more friends, and also a bigger family with whom we can share a great gratitude from each other.

For me, the OGX life is one of the most wonderful experiences you can get from the AIESEC life.

OGX RULEZ!!!!!