With the insurance industry bringing newer opportunities for the world, Capgemini's insurance arm has proved its mettle in providing cutting-edge technologies. My internship experience and insights were something that I will cherish for a lifetime and I promise, this read will be worth your time.
My MBA journey in SCMHRD, right from the beginning, has always been filled with curiosity about working closely with a company in the domain I am pursuing my MBA. This is all about grabbing the best internship opportunity as we go along with our academic year. The college never failed to load me with enough resources to make the most of it and work towards achieving my goal. The resources in the form of mentorship by seniors and faculties, various learning platforms and teaching sessions contributed to my successful journey in getting an internship with a well-known company in the FMCG sector. The rigorous developmental plans designed by my mentors while I prepared for my internship, were a great help to me in successfully implementing every learning on the d-day. The internship selections included group discussions or case study discussions and interview rounds. Before appearing for the final day, it was very important to do regular practice interviews and GDs to keep me well versed with the proper instructions of performing well on the d-day. During this time, preparing closely with friends and batchmates, to help out each other assessing each other’s performance has proved to be the icing on the cake for me.
Getting into a good company in the placement week is one of the biggest rat races ever. For you to land in your dream company, you need to be the dream candidate for the company. The 4 Cs which I focused on while preparing for the placement were: 1. Content: If you have everything in you but the content, you’re an egg without the yolk. 2. Communication: You need to have the ability to put across your thoughts in an efficient manner. Effective communication is the step which you can’t skip if you want to land up in a good company. 3. Creativity: You will always be asked mundane questions but the answers are always expected to be creative. 4. Collaboration: Before making it to the final interview, you will have to clear the Group discussion. In this round companies don’t just look for candidates with impeccable knowledge, they look for people who can work together in a team and hence you need to control your horses and be the most collaborative version of yourself.
In these uncertain times where the pandemic has taken a toll on employment and when LinkedIn was flooded with students losing their internships and offers being revoked, I was scared to miss my internship opportunity. But LEAR kept its promise and all the interns were onboarded virtually on 27th of April 2020. My internship at LEAR Corporation was truly an enriching experience. I could not have asked for a better learning experience through virtual mode.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt This correctly sums up what SCMHRD has imbibed in me - to constantly dream, believe in them and keep hustling! It means getting out of your comfort zone and challenging every time to be a better version of yourself. This endeavour of mine bore fruit in the form of securing a summer placement offer from Capgemini's Chrysalis Internship program in the financial services domain.
Nervous jitters every now and then, excitement at its peak, calling up numerous friends and juniors and taking a look at the checklist of onboarding documents a hundred times. This more or less says it all about the morning of my first day of internship. Of the numerous times that I wore business formals during MBA, never before had I thought of actually flaunting it. I was taken aback looking at people all around me so normal and casual? Am I the only one who is over-excited? Probably yes, and I had all the reason for the same. It was my first corporate stint as a fresher. The first ever of my life. A lot was at stake. I had heard so much about it – both good and not so good. Looking at my excitement, my fellow interns were like “You’re new to the corporate setup, we’ve been there; we’ll take a look at your excitement a week later.”
