This week’s #YOBOLive will be an insightful episode featuring 2 IIM K alumni, one of whom bagged an internship at Amazon, and another who bagged an internship at PwC, a NITIE alum who bagged a PPO at Nestlé, an IIM Shillong student who cracked a PPO at D.E.Shaw, and an FMS student who bagged a PPO at Microsoft! Find out what are the steps to ace that internship and bag that PPO!When: Thursday, 12th November, 8 PM.Where:
Who:Sohini Roy Choudhury, NITIE, NestléSohini completed her MBA this year from NITIE Mumbai and joined Nestlé as a Management Trainee in the Supply Chain Division, post her internship & PPO. She was on-boarded by Nestlé 3 months back and is currently working on her first stint project. At NITIE, Sohini was a student placement coordinator. She has a pre-MBA work experience of 2 years in Tata Consultancy Services and an undergraduate degree of B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering.Megha Sinha, IIM K, IIT Kharagpur, Interned at AmazonMegha pursued an MBA majoring in operations and strategy from IIM Kozhikode.She is a certified Six-Sigma Black Belt and has 3.5 yrs. of experience in the Operations domain across industries. She interned with Amazon in the Last Mile operations. Currently, she’s working with Blue Yonder as a Supply Chain Consultant. She has been one of the campus finalists/winners of various prestigious B-School Case Competitions like Flipkart Wired, TATA Business leadership awards, Aditya Birla Group Stratos, MI Summit, TATA Steel-o-thon, Reliance TUP, and more.She was a member of the college Alumni Cell and Operations Interest group. When she’s not working, she’s painting, reading, or playing online chess.Shantam Khetan, FMS, Microsoft PPO HolderA 2nd year student at FMS, Shantam interned at Cisco for 6 months in their Network Security Business and worked at Akamai Technology for a couple of years in their Adaptive Media Delivery Team. Shantam was clueless about his domain of interest until he interned at Microsoft as Program Manager Intern. Despite the internship being a virtual one, he liked every aspect of it. PM as a field is an amalgamation of Business and Technology this is what he found really interesting.Akshay Sirsalewala - Interned at PwC Consulting, IIMK, CA, CFA - all levels, FRMAkshay is a CA and has cleared all levels of CFA and FRM. He graduated from IIM Kozhikode in 2020 and will be joining the 'Financial Effectiveness' team at PwC US Advisory. Prior to IIM K, he worked as a Debt Syndication Executive at an Investment Bank. He writes extensively on how to prepare for CA/CFA/CAT and was part of the editorial teams of CAclubIndia and InsideIIM. He also worked as faculty at Career Launcher, teaching Math and LRDI.Shailesh Maheshwari, IIM Shillong, D.E.Shaw PPO HolderShailesh is a Chartered Accountant pursuing his MBA from IIM Shillong. He interned at D. E. Shaw India and is the winner of Jubilant Life Sciences corporate competition. Prior to MBA, he worked at EY as an assurance executive and has handled many listed entities during his corporate stint since articleship. A graduate of St. Xavier's, Kolkata, Shailesh loves sports, is a karateka, enjoys socializing and is a budding cook.For this session today, Thursday, 12th November, 8PM, you can ask
The dos and don’ts of getting into preparing for an internship
how to convert your internship into a PPO
learn about how to maintain a balance between acads and other activities
get to know about joining clubs and committees at b-school and
anything else you'd like to know!
You can view this week’s live episode here. You can also jot down your questions related to summer placements here and the most unique/ interesting questions will be featured in the webinar!