In this article, Avantika Tijare ,a student of IIM Calcutta who interned at TAS in the Sales and Marketing domain talks about her summer internship experience. Find out about how she prepared for the summer placements, her onboarding process, her experiences & what she 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.
The selection round consisted of a long process like online games, a detailed application form, a Chairman GD and the final stressful PI. TAS is a company that looks for a personality and ethics in the candidates and I knew that I was the best fit for the company and the company was the best culture fit for me. Talking about the result, I did not focus on the result during the interview. I was only trying to be honest and correct. It is only after the placement coordintor anounced my result that I realized that I had got the internship.
On joining the company as an intern, how has your onboarding experience been like?
The onboarding has been pretty fun. We, as interns come with loads of emotions and energy. Right from excitement and energy to nervousness, I was very optimistic about the internship. I have my mentors who are very senior to me. I was very nervous. But as they say, at TAS, people are very friendly, for not even a moment did I realize that I was a new intern. the onboarding process was very smooth
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?
The interaction has been very insightful. Every interaction with my team members and mentors teaches me something new. I learn new methods of researching, technical details and other skills from them. Firstly, I need to truly myself to bring out the best in me and utilize it towards the benefit of my internship project. And to impress my supervisors, I have been going a step ahead and putting in more efforts than required and asked for. I try to utilize my college resources and learn something from my friends that is useful for my project. It helps me bring a new perspective onto the table.
Tell us in brief, about the project you are currently working on and how is this project going to help the company?
I am working on a confidential project where I am evolving a communications technology and working with the product marketing team. Daily, I am trying to modify the customer value of the product and the services to re-launch it. My work will help the company to understand the customer perspective better and help the internal teams to gauge the customer requirements appropriately. It will also help the company get a competitive advantage.
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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.
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