In this article, Shreevardhan daga , a student of SIBM Pune who interned at Jarvis Technology and Strategy Consulting Private Limited in theConsulting Domain talks about his summer internship experience. Find out about how he prepared for the summer placements, his onboarding process, his experiences & what his learnings are during this internship.
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Hi, Tell us about how you got selected for this internship? Take us through the moment you realized you had got the internship.
Through campus interview, I was interviewed about strategy-based questions on how I can find the wilful misrepresentation in compensation by hired staff for campaigns. The answers which struck me were very well structured and as the interviewer kept probing in the direction I wanted, I realised that I will get the internship.
On joining the company as an intern, how has your onboarding experience been like?
I had my reservations initially given the current pandemic situation, but the communication through HR was on point. We were accommodated in a clean and hygienic 3-star hotel for the first few days. On our first day of internship, we were introduced to everyone from other interns to the director, making it a perfect ice breaker. Also, we were informed about our first project and a mentor briefed us. Overall, making it a very fruitful onboarding project.
How has your interaction with the team members and colleagues been like? How will you make sure to leave the best impression on your supervisors by the end of the internship?
I was partnered with batchmates from my college itself. But pandemic had limited our interaction, therefore this was the first real experience with them.
We were given a project on data visualisation in which 2 of us, including me, had preliminary knowledge but all 4 of us were inexperienced. We all saw the tutorials, learned from each other by sitting continuously for 9 hrs for 2 consecutive days. With this team effort we were able to quickly learn Google Data Studio.
Afterwards we were told to prepare a dashboard individually and present, so we worked individually but kept a brainstorming session to review and learn from each others dashboard.
Discipline, Listening and Communication skills, Understanding what the supervisor wants are the three mantras I go by. Mixed with Attitude to elevate each other and constructive criticism helped me to deliver the project within a record week time. And this is how I wish to leave an impression on my supervisors by delivering by the end of my internship
Tell us in brief, about the project you are currently working on and how is this project going to help the company?
Firstly, there are multiple projects that I have been given. Currently, I worked on creating a dashboard to present real-time data on the election campaign activities done by the company for the party on election day polling. The dashboard was prepared for Senor Cabinet Ministers. It got approved and the test run for the same was also conducted successfully.
The company as the name suggests provides a strategic solution with the use of technology. My project will help them to achieve the same by replacing the existing paper mode of presenting reports with a digital dashboard. But, most importantly it is real-time and therefore will help the client to take decision effectively and get ahead in the competition, therefore happy. This will consequently benefit the company.
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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: Digital Diary 1 | Digital Diary 2 | Digital Diary 3 | Digital Diary 4 | Digital Diary 5
- 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!