Our family continues to grow

I'd like to take a moment to welcome the First interns of the AIESEC Expansion Initiative to Jordan!

Zypargul from Kazakhstan and Nicolae from Moldova will be with us here in Jordan for the next two months, working at Jordan Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company doing market research.

We are more than excited to accept these two new members into our growing AIESEC family here in Jordan. We wish them both a wonderful time here.

CEEDER IN JORDAN

Hello everyone,

The MC in Jordan, has asked me to introduce myself, and also talk about my experience in Jordan so far, so here it goes...
OK, so... all my aiesec "career" (if you can call it that) has been in the U.S. , however, I am from the awesome country of Spain (Basque Country, for the intelligent people). I was an aiesecer at the University of Michigan, which gave me the chance not only to develop myself and learn about Aiesec, but also to meet some incredible people and thanks to one of those I am here in Amman (Jordan) today (thanks Amber). But let´s not talk about the past... so how is Jordan? Well, I´ve been here for 10 days and it´s been amazing. The MC is doing a great job and the results are there... over 230 applications for membership... So what else can I say, I´m really excited to be here.
What am I doing as a ceeder? I´m here for two months to help Oksana a little bit with People Development, coaching the candidates in the induction process, and how they can get the best out of Aiesec. So far I have no crazy stories, although I got a really funny feedback comment from somebody in one of the groups, but I can´t share it with you until my next posting.
The culture is amazing, we are in the middle of Ramadan, and so at night the city of Amman is full of people walking around and all the shops and restaurants are open till midnight.
I live in an appartment that has a huge balcony with an awesome view, I literaly sit there for hours, reading or just simply staring at the view.
So, that´s a bit about me and what I´m doing, I´ll be posting again as soon as I have something more concrete to say, specially about the country and the first aiesecers of Jordan.
Thanks for reading this,

Asier

Match o'rific!

We are proud to announce that we have our first Matches! We are excited to welcome two interns, one from Moldova and one from Kazakstan to Jordan in a two weeks to begin the First ever AIESEC internships in Jordan.

This is a super special match between Moldova and Jordan because it is both countries first match. Hurrah! We have begun to see the fruits of our labor with all our potential new members who are dedicating their time, even during the month of Ramadan that shortens the work day and renders everyone tired, thirsty and hungry in the late afternoon hours. Now we will welcome our first interns to Jordan and will begin to see our long hours justified.

It's all beginning to come together...

Fully into recruitment

Just like most of our time in the first months was spent in the office (developing strategies, working on contacts & preparing materials), currently most of our time is spent 'in the field' - booking lecture rooms, informing people, running whole induction process.

One of the most exciting parts of being in Expansion team is that you get the feeling of utmost importance of your every single step.
From working on national strategies to giving out flyers and chatting with applicants, all of this experience is just filled with the impact.

Its been the most exciting time for me in the last week. Now we have an opportunity to actually mingle with our applicants and talk, talk, talk. Through these conversations you learn so much more about the country, region and people's life here. You get to know amazing people and find devoted friends.

We started to have induction trainings, projects; CEEDers arrived; and a lot of other events happened in our ER side.

As the week goes by, we ll make sure to post about our news & keep you updated.
Meanwhile, thanks for your support & Yella, MENA!

Change of Address

Just to let you all know: the address of this blog has changed to:

http://aiesecinjordan.nomadlife.org


Cheers.

I lose...and we win ;)!!!

Dear friends,

Finally the time has come to announce to you the results of our Recruitment competition.
As you might know, the conditions were the following:
Two brave teams (Oksana in Irbid & Moni/Ani in Amman) were competing who of them will get MORE APPLICATION FORMS for this Autumn Recruitment.
The prize was the following: The looser Team takes out the winning team out to a dinner to the restaurant of winning team choice.

And....drum rolls........................................................
The Winning team is ..............................................
is................................................................................

..................***MONIKA & ANNIKA***.....................

Yes, can you imagine? I lose...But its not all news yet. ;)

As you remember, the Competition had a SPECIAL prize:
If both of the teams manage to get 100 Application Forms each - so in total we will receive more than 200 Applications, there will be a special Prize from me (Oksana) for the success & achieving our recruitment targets.

And...here....I am more than proud to announce that I've never been soooo happy to lose, because the results are the following:

Yarmouk University - 101 Application Form
Jordan University - 130 Application Form

Total - more than 200 ;)!!!!!!!

Thanks, my team! Thank you also, Tamer, for the country visit: your presence here indeed helped. And thank you, AIESEC network, for all the support that you gave to us during this promotion. It was amazing to receive letters from you, to talk to you on MSN & have your full support!!!

Happy & Excited,
Oksana