Let's begin with the time when I joined NMIMS, Bangalore in June 2018. With eyes filled with hope and mind filled with questions. How am I going to do this, how am I going to cope up with this after spending 4 years in the job etc? But my journey started with a bang. After a few rounds of interviews and tasks, I became a part of a Committee that required my full time and energy. But with that, I got my college mentor who guided me to deal with everything around in college. And then suddenly came our time for placements.
Even before joining the college I was pretty clear about the type of job I will be looking for after my MBA. Odessa came up with the same role that I was looking for. Then the struggle for preparation started and quest to get selected. I took advice from my seniors who had their internship in the same company last year and started preparing with all the subjects that would help me in clearing the rounds of the process. Group discussion followed by two round of interviews got me selected in the company that I wanted. Pretty happy with the fact that I got thru but nervous at the same time because it was going to be an eye-opener for me.
Internship for me was like a trial period on the role that I was looking to pursue once PGDM is complete. Therefore I wanted to taste all the bits and pieces of the role. On the day of my joining, I was really surprised by the environment of the office. From a place where I came from (Infosys), this was a really different experience. Everybody was so chill, friendly and welcoming that they made was feeling very comfortable in like 1-2 days only. Along with me, there were 14 other interns who joined on the same day and we became a batch for their initial training sessions.
Initially, I was amongst the people of my own college but with time everybody became friends as if we knew each other for a long time. Initially, we distinguished ourselves as people from different colleges but later we all were one group that was there for an internship. After 10 days within training, we all planned a trip for the upcoming long weekend. And I must say that trip was supposed to be highly planned one but later became the least planned one. In a span of 4 days, I and Aman drove from Bangalore-Coorg-Wayanad-Ooty-Bangalore covering a distance of more than 1200kms. We took tents with us from Bangalore and did camping wherever we could to stay at night. From finding a place to camp, setting up a tent, food and drinking water everything was a challenge. But with friends like these everything became a memory to cherish. This was my first trip with those crazy bunch of people and with the most adventure that I can describe for ages.
When we came back from the trip, we all were assigned different projects and were under different company mentors. I was in a project that was in the initial phase and was full of work. But the best part was that my mentor and I had similar thoughts regarding internships. He wanted me to understand the role and responsibilities of a Business Analyst in depth so that I know what I am going to in future. With that our tuning was just perfect. He made me do all different kinds of work that a business analyst would do in their course of job over the years. He made it very clear for me to understand things and asked me to join various client calls and mock calls. Initially, when the work started I was stressed about the fact that the company’s domain is Finance and I was an Analytics major. But my mentor helped me to understand that this is just the beginning. Business Analyst has to learn and understand their clients whether its Finance, Automobile or any other domain and gave me a boost of energy to keep going with work. He made sure that I am exposed to all kinds of works and at the end whether I am where I wanted to be. Then as I part of my job, I understood the company’s domain and helped them create training documents that they will use for client and customer training at the end of the project.
Not only this, but the company also provides a free will for the employees to take up the role that they wish to take and follow their passion. Every week we used to have some celebration on the terrace which used to cheer everybody up and helped everyone to de-stress themselves from work. But the best part of my whole internship was my fellow interns and my mentor who made it worth and a memorable 8 weeks.