'Consulting firms prefer people with prior work experience' - Sandeep Chatterjee, Associate Director, KPMG and IIMK alumnus
Media Cell, IIMK, recently had the pleasure of interacting with alumus Mr. Sandeep Chatterjee ( Batch of 2003) who is currently Associate Director at KPMG. He has worked as Lead Consultant at Infosys Technologies and Principal Consultant at Oracle Consulting in the past. Here’s what he had to say about the field of Consulting:
Working on a revolution in the Trucking industry....Sales & Marketing Internship at Tata Motors
Summer internships are perhaps the most hyped activity that every student at any B-school keeps hearing and planning about right from the first day he/she enters into a campus. I was no different and had a lot of dreams and visions to get into an FMCG major and become a Sales God in just a two-month long stint in some part of India. As a wise man once said, “Man proposes and God, in his own way, disposes”. All said and done, I was successful in bagging a Sales and Marketing role with none other than the TATA Group, although in a different segment, namely TATA Motors.
The Time traveller's internship - Digital Marketing with Mahindra Finance
“Understanding the consumer is like understanding yourself. The day you think you have done it, is the day you need to start afresh” – Myself
Summer Saga - Summer Internship in Market Research
“We have a product that nobody wants. Make it a star.” pretty much summed up what my project was. I had to come up with a miracle cure for the billion dollar baby of a billion dollar company. Easy enough right? I mean, I am from an IIM and miracles happen all around me. For example, I miraculously survived the mess food for a year. Heck miracles are nothing out of the ordinary for me, little miss IIM. Or so I thought.
Be Fearless and Go Live Your Dream - Sanjay Thapar, IIM Lucknow Alumnus and CEO - Lifestyles - India Today
This is the third story in our Career Perspectives Series. The idea is to provide a perspective on careers through interviews with really illustrious alumni from top B schools. We will be interviewing alumni from different walks of life – entrepreneurs, business leaders, social leaders, and artists. We started with Suhas Misra – IIM Calcutta alumnus and Co-Founder of Hector Beverages. Then it was Kamlesh Varshney - IIM Lucknow Alumnus and Commissioner of Tax, Government of India who gave us a perspective on career choices in civil services.






