As summer placements are based on prior MBA experience and academics, I would say to be oneself would be a good strategy and avoid been overprepared. During the interview, I was confident with my previous experience and showed confidence that I will be able to do whatever Internship demands. So, attitude matters a lot.
"If you get in, supply free kajal to me for a year!" "Get me some weight loss shortcuts dude, will you?" "Good. You'll finally realize the finer aspects of skin & hair care."
I had an internship with Flipkart, a company with a fast-paced and unique work culture. During my internship, I was lucky enough to travel to 5 cities, and conduct a personal interview of over 2200 people, and get insights and create value propositions for an upcoming project. Here is a quick dive in, into my experience there, which consisted of not just work related learnings (which were a lot), but also beyond that.
1. Take a proactive role in your learning
Late April 2018, Gurgaon:
You feel the luckiest when you get an opportunity related to your field of engineering coupled with the domain you are most interested in when you start your journey at a top reputed B-School. I interned at Solvay and the Project allotted was related to Market Research for the company’s product. The selection procedure started with a live case study problem related to marketing and then followed by personal interviews. Giving a brief about Solvay, it’s one of the most innovative companies coming up with advanced materials with a justifiable tagline “asking more from chemistry”, been the first partner for Solar Impulse 2 and coming up with materials to contribute in new areas such as hybrid cars and space exploration for NASA.
A large number of people are caught in the vicious cycle of giving CAT, they appear for it year after year but still, they are not able to succeed. I would like to talk about one such category of people and help them make better decisions related to CAT. The category of people in focus is the fresh graduates of tier 2 engineering colleges of India. There are many things which make them different from the rest of the CAT aspirants; generally the placement scenarios in these colleges are not very good and as a result, these students look forward to doing an MBA from the best colleges. Generally, they are looking for better job scenarios and a ‘better life’ in their new college. They start their CAT preparation either during the final year, some even start in their second year. During this time they get so engrossed with the hope of studying in the top IIM that they are not able to see the whole scenario. While some of them crack the CAT and get admission in b-school, they become the motivation for the rest of the people. While the people who fail to get admission are the one for whom this article is directed to.
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