I strongly believe it is an intense and enriching experience that everyone should have at least once in life! My AIESEC story in Colombia started at the end of September 2019. I decided to apply to a project only a few weeks before leaving and everything went very...
Jesler van Houdt Jesler
The exciting function of a trainee manager
My name is Sophie and I am a Trainee Manager at AIESEC Tilburg. In this blog post, I will tell you what a trainee manager does. Our promise AIESEC wants to make sure that people have the best experience when going on one of the products that we offer (Global...
Collaboration in a culturally diverse team
"Cultural diversity is beautiful and can enhance your organization or your team!" Every organization or company has its own typical culture. A culture can be described as tacit knowledge, which means that it is context-specific, and not easy to transfer the knowledge...
Teaching Simon
A couple of years ago, my mother asked me if I wanted tutor Simon, a boy living across the street. His mother had approached mine because this little boy has had 6 different tutors that year alone already, but none of them were able to explain math to him. Curious as...
SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being
Back in 2015, the United Nations set specific goals that the world has to meet by 2030 - the so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals together have to make sure that the world is in a perfect sustainable state in which there is no hunger, no...
Welcome to the start-up hub
We all know by now that the start-up world is a very exciting one to work in. Yet, it always seemed a bit farfetched for me to be an entrepreneur and start working for myself. But is this feeling justified? I now think that, once you have a good idea of what you are...