During the first week of July, AIESEC EBC hosted the National Directors Meeting 2006 with the main objective to bring all our local executive boards together in order to present the new National Team, develop the AIESEC in Mexico Vision 2010, present the strategies we are going to lead during this year and make some improvements in our structures, local plans and legality of our organization. All this in order to improve our performance as organization, align our contribution globally and deliver our stakeholders better results and service as a real AIESEC eXPerience with all the elements the platform is offering.

With the presence of around sixty leaders who are representatives of the local committees in the different universities AIESEC exists, representatives of companies as McGraw-Hill and alumni who are involved with AIESEC.

This year we are going to have many conferences in which our stakeholders can participate, so please keep in touch so we can keep you up-to-date about the forthcoming events. 

This month we started to research for and work on the Expansion Initiative of AIESEC in Mexico. After our analysis and suggestions from companies we decided to re-open AIESEC in Queretaro. This time and for a while it is going to work as an extension of another local committee which will be selected by the Member Committee and it will be supporting the initiative by being representative with the stakeholders there.
We are expecting the support from the stakeholders to make our network wider and stronger.

Human Capital work this month was dominated by the upcoming recruitment period. While the local committees were getting ready to put up the stands and promotion materials, adapting the information session presentations and induction content, in the Member Committee, we have been working on providing all the necessary materials. Have a look at the updated tools:

1. Planning Tool
2. Recruitment Tool
3. Induction Tool
4. Selection Tool
    

July was a big month for organizing information and re-constructing the network of people that were at one time or another members of AIESEC in Mexico, in other words, the network of ALUMNI.

The first contact was aimed at inviting the ALUMNI to AIESEC in Mexico's Stakeholders Gala 2006, however, building stronger and more sustainable relationships is the main goal for this year. The next step will be gathering feedback and implementing a structured program for efficiently and effectively involving ALUMNI of AIESEC in Mexico's activities so that both ALUMNI and members reap the benefits of working together.

One of the big challenges any organization has is to learn from the history and take into account the current state in order to evolve sustainably towards the achievement of a stated vision.

That is precisely what has been happening in the External Relation Area this July, where due to the big internal needs and external opportunities, we have the great challenge to structure and start up an area that aims to give us the needed resources to deliver more and more experiences trough AIESEC. It is quite an exciting journey from now until July 2007 and we are completely motivated to contribute actively to society through the involvement of the companies, organizations and NGOs in our activities. We widely openly invite you to take advantage of the opportunities our organization can give and can represent for your Corporate Responsibility and Talent desires.

Among the main initiatives we developed in July, was the consolidation of a National Products Portfolio, which aims to give personalized opportunities to organizations who wants to partner with AIESEC, taking into account the best focus we can give to the relation. In particular, we want to share with you our Corporate Responsibility Partnership, which aims to start to develop talented people among this topic trough conferences, learning circles and Team works. And, in the other side, we are aiming to constitute an option for companies that currently needs talent in terms of taking advantage of our learning process to consolidate a sustainable Human Resource.

Please, feel free to approach to us. We are sure we have ways to cooperate.

External Relations Team (Cindy Rocha, Gwendolyn Price, Sebastian Bustamente)

As one of the major components to achieving the global @2010 and AIESEC in Mexico's vision we need to start the implementation of of learning environments and projects that are created around a specific issue in society, such as Corporate Social Responsibility, so that all members live their experience in AIESEC based on an issue. For this purpose a Task Force in the MC has been created to support this implementation at the local level. This Task Force is integrated by Daniela Raeger, Carlos Cortés, Sebastiàn Bustamante and chaired by Erika Macías. The aim of this Task Force is to ensure the implementation of these experiences in all AIESEC's systems.

It is important for AIESEC in Mexico to keep finance under control by audites. Because of this, we have an Internal Auditors Team which is selected annually and which is responsible to audit AIESEC in Mexico Member Committee in terms of finance. AIESEC in Mexico is proud to announce the 2006-2007 Internal Auditor Team:

Alicia Alvarado - Vice President of Finance in AIESEC Veracruz (alisson_2210@hotmail.com)

Elena Santoyo - Vice President of Finance in AIESEC Universidad Panamericana (elenita.santoyo@gmail.com)

You can congratulate the new members of the team via these email addresses.

As some of you know AIESEC in Mexico will be hosting the next regional conference in Latin America, the Americas Exchange and Leadership Development Seminar (AXLDS). We are looking for the people who are willing to experience being the member of a team who is going to create the environment to bring together more than 150 delegates from more than 18 countries and show them a little bit of Mexico, its culture and AIESEC Mexico's contribution to the global network.

To download the application please click here. The deadline to submit your applications to axlds@aiesec.org.mx is 17th of August.

For questions, please do not hesitate to send emails to axlds@aiesec.org.mx.