I want to share with you my thoughts and emotions about recruitment. Actually, it’s the first time I’m experiencing recruitment as an oldy. Just cannot imagine how people, who’ve tasted it several times, feel.

It’s something awesome when you see those people who will soon be called aiesecers, you listen to them, you realize how cute they are, how much they can contribute to the organisation’s development and their own growth.

Today, at the end of LTS, I was thinking: my whole work in AIESEC is worth this moment: the moment that will make a difference. The moment we will remember long time after it passed.

This starts from preparation: you just sit down with your fellow VPs, LC members and draw a vivid picture of the person you wish to see in your LC. The person who will drive this organization towards AIESEC 2010 and even further towards our vision. At first, it’s something very abstract, but very-very attractive. Than you make a profile of people you want to recruit. Who they are, what they like, where and how they study, what past they have, what their future potential is.

And then you think how to attract them. And then everything becomes a plan with action steps that you implement.

And now, having passed almost the half of that work I do understand how important it was. That is what I admire about AIESEC: you start doing something more imaginary than real, than you work on it and in the end you achieve your results.

You read those application forms and get excited, you interview those people and understand: yeah, they should be in AIESEC, since it is the experience they need and since they are the people AIESEC needs, and then you see them during LTS: active, proactive, clever and eager to learn new.

I enjoy this moment!
Olya

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 9:29 PM