We bring to you, the personal Summer Internship Diaries of the students of IIM Shillong, PGP 20. The accounts belong to domains like Marketing, Finance, Consulting & Strategy and General Management. The students share their preparation techniques for the significant 2 months, their internship experiences at the largest MNCs of the world (Google, ITC, PepsiCo, Deloitte, YES Bank, Nomura, Titan, Pidilite, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, etc.) and their personal learnings, applicable to not just their future organisations, but also their day to day life.
Sandra Anil (Deloitte), Soham Chaudhuri (Deloitte), Shreyans Agrawal (EY) and Manish Kumar (Cipla) share their Consulting and Strategy summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
Eugansh Khatri (BPCL) and Nitesh Singh (BPCL) share their General Management summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
Saakshi Malpani, YES Bank, Aditya Agarwal, AB InBev, Arushi Mathran, Aditya Birla Capital and Bhavesh Dhameja, Nomura share their Finance summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
Hardik Goyal (DE Shaw), Kumar Avishkar (ICICI Bank) and Suraj Agarwal (HSBC) share their Finance summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
Arzoo Kamrah (Pidilite), Abhishek Khurana (Mahindra GMC), Ananya Chakraborty (Titan), Aritro Datta (Pidilite) and Arko Datta (Pidilite) share their Sales and Marketing summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
Hitanksha Jain (Pepsico), Shishir Ghildiyal (IBM), Ishita Garg (Titan) and Rohan Jose (Titan) share their Sales and Marketing summer internship stint in this article. Read on to know how they prepared for the placement, the project(s) they worked on, and their key takeaways from the 2-month internship!
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InsideIIM presents the 8th Season of Summer Saga where you can share your bizarre, enriching, a-little-difficult-yet-fun experiences with everyone and win prizes for the same. We have changed the rules in the eighth season. You don't need to wait for your internship to end in order to share your experience. Instead, it will be a digital diary, where you will be able to document your learnings and experiences, during your stint.
Take part in Summer Saga 2021 now! Fill out Digital Diary 1 below using this link!
TIMELINE, PROCESS AND RULES
- You don't need to register on InsideIIM.com or on the Kampus App to take part in Summer Saga Season 8. Simply share your experiences in the Digital Diary. To maintain standardisation, every Digital Diary will have a few questions that you'll need to answer.
- Access all the Digital Diaries forms from here. You will receive Digital Diaries from us on the following dates:
-Digital Diary 1 - 02.05.2021
-Digital Diary 2 - 09.05.2021
-Digital Diary 3 - 23.05.2021
-Digital Diary 4 - 06.06.2021
-Digital Diary 5 - 20.06.2021
- After 20th June, we will collate your entries as a single article and share the same with the same.
- Your overall submission will be evaluated on the following parameters:
-Completeness: This depends on the number of Digital Diaries you have filled.
-Value Addition: This depends on how in-depth your answers have been. The score for this parameter will be given by our Judges.
-Reach: This depends on how many unique people have read your internship experience once we publish the article. We maintain fair play, we will publish all the articles on the same day, so that you can also share the same in your network.
- There is also a title called, ‘Campus With The Most Interesting Interns’ that will be awarded to (a) the campus that submits the maximum number of entries and (b) the campus that submits the best quality entries (based on the score given by our judges). The minimum entries from campus to be considered for this title is 10. So, if you want your campus to win the title then make sure your classmates and other students from your b school share their experiences in this year's Summer Saga Competition.
This competition is broadly divided into four categories. Refer to the table below to know more about prizes in each category.
Prize Money
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Category
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Banking and Finance
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Sales, Marketing and General Management
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Operations
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HR, Consulting and Others
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| 1st Prize |
₹ 10,000 |
₹ 10,000 |
₹ 10,000 |
₹ 10,000 |
| Runner Up |
₹ 5,000 |
₹ 5,000 |
₹ 5,000 |
₹ 5,000 |
The 1st Prize winner will also get a one-hour 1-on-1 career guidance session with an industry stalwart, from our panel of mentors in Kounsel.
ABOUT THE JUDGES
Every year, we have Campus Managers from some of the top companies (such as Reliance, HSBC, Flipkart, ABG, HUL, TAS, etc) judging the annual Summer Saga competition. We will release the details of the judges of Summer Saga Season 8 soon!
Check out the previous year's
winners!
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Maybe this will help you reflect and recall these two months as well (which can come in handy when appearing for interviews in the future). InsideIIM is the perfect platform to chronicle your experiences, your highs, your lows and everything in between.
So guys, what are you waiting for? Start writing! You have a voice. You have the experience. Make the best of it!