Being at the heart of the city Bhubaneswar, XIMB is well known among the localities as “Jha-bier College”. The tall standing Academic building next to a Tech Park and Tech Mahindra Campus brings forth the close nature of an educational institution with the industry.
Summer Internships in a B-School is one such landmark about which you start building expectations even before you join a Business School. It is as if everything in the first year is preparing us for this one big battle. It is the big picture which we are made to see whenever we find any assignment not relevant or any herculean challenge to face, as a result of which the expectations which an intern has from the company increases manifold. And most of the organization fall short of what is expected by an intern as a utopian internship. I was fortunate enough to intern at a place where looking in retrospection I feel I really never thought I could have done so much in a span of 2 months.
I interned with ICICI Bank. I got the chance to contribute to one of the most trending groups in Banking i.e. Technology and Digital. This year’s internship was administered really well consisting of remarkable projects. Interns got the details of their respective Projects, Guides, and pre-requisites for the internship well before joining it. This helped us to get the essence of our projects in advance and study all the fundamentals to deliver our best in the coming two months.
I am Arijit Kumar Ghosh, currently a PGP2 participant at IIM Indore, PGP 2017-19. Before joining IIM, I graduated as a BE engineer in the field of Electronics & Communication Engineering post which I served TCS at Kolkata for 2 years as a junior IT consultant.
One of the key elements of B-school learning is the summer internship program – an opportunity which gives you a sneak-peak into the management-facing corporate world and prepares you for the future ahead.
‘A 173 year old legacy’, ‘#11 on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work’, ‘Big Four’ – these were some of the fluttering thoughts in my head as I sat inside the swanky Deloitte University at Hyderabad in a room with over 100 other B-school counterparts from across the country, waiting for my internship journey to commence. It’s been a month now that the internship is over and not a moment goes by when I don’t want to rewind time and relive those 8 weeks on a loop.
I was selected to be a part of Capgemini’s coveted Chrysalis Summer Internship Programme 2018. Being one of the most sought-after companies in the campus, I was looking forward to the company’s visit. Preparation strategy for the interview involved numerous activities. Firstly, one needs to be up to date with regard to latest events especially in your area, HR in my case. Take out time to read newspapers, journals and magazines regularly. Further, be thorough with your theoretical knowledge. This is really important because this sets the path of translating this to the practical corporate life. Thirdly, schedule mock interviews with your friends. Trust me this gives you numerous insights and helps you in preparing well. This will boost up your confidence.
Being at the heart of the city Bhubaneswar, XIMB is well known among the localities as “Jha-bier College”. The tall standing Academic building next to a Tech Park and Tech Mahindra Campus brings forth the close nature of an educational institution with the industry.
Summer Internships in a B-School is one such landmark about which you start building expectations even before you join a Business School. It is as if everything in the first year is preparing us for this one big battle. It is the big picture which we are made to see whenever we find any assignment not relevant or any herculean challenge to face, as a result of which the expectations which an intern has from the company increases manifold. And most of the organization fall short of what is expected by an intern as a utopian internship. I was fortunate enough to intern at a place where looking in retrospection I feel I really never thought I could have done so much in a span of 2 months.
I interned with ICICI Bank. I got the chance to contribute to one of the most trending groups in Banking i.e. Technology and Digital. This year’s internship was administered really well consisting of remarkable projects. Interns got the details of their respective Projects, Guides, and pre-requisites for the internship well before joining it. This helped us to get the essence of our projects in advance and study all the fundamentals to deliver our best in the coming two months.
I am Arijit Kumar Ghosh, currently a PGP2 participant at IIM Indore, PGP 2017-19. Before joining IIM, I graduated as a BE engineer in the field of Electronics & Communication Engineering post which I served TCS at Kolkata for 2 years as a junior IT consultant.
One of the key elements of B-school learning is the summer internship program – an opportunity which gives you a sneak-peak into the management-facing corporate world and prepares you for the future ahead.
‘A 173 year old legacy’, ‘#11 on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work’, ‘Big Four’ – these were some of the fluttering thoughts in my head as I sat inside the swanky Deloitte University at Hyderabad in a room with over 100 other B-school counterparts from across the country, waiting for my internship journey to commence. It’s been a month now that the internship is over and not a moment goes by when I don’t want to rewind time and relive those 8 weeks on a loop.
I was selected to be a part of Capgemini’s coveted Chrysalis Summer Internship Programme 2018. Being one of the most sought-after companies in the campus, I was looking forward to the company’s visit. Preparation strategy for the interview involved numerous activities. Firstly, one needs to be up to date with regard to latest events especially in your area, HR in my case. Take out time to read newspapers, journals and magazines regularly. Further, be thorough with your theoretical knowledge. This is really important because this sets the path of translating this to the practical corporate life. Thirdly, schedule mock interviews with your friends. Trust me this gives you numerous insights and helps you in preparing well. This will boost up your confidence.
