How would life be if you went off the beaten path? Does your life up to now check all the right boxes? Degree college, MBA, getting placed at a dream corporate, is this what you dream of? What if that is not the case?
Some of India’s biggest companies only manage to cover a few top MBA campuses for recruitment to their coveted Summer Internship programs. We, at InsideIIM, don't believe that amazing talent can only be found at the handful of top campuses! The good folks at Aditya Birla Group have decided to give a chance to business schools across the country to impress them so they can add them to the roster of campuses they will be visiting for this year’s Summer Internship Placements season. ABGLP is one of the most coveted leadership programs there is for MBA students. For the longest time, they recruited only from IIM A, B, C, L, K, XLRI Jamshedpur, and ISB. Last year, IIM Indore won the ABGLP Woo Me competition and got ABG to recruit from their campus. You too stand a chance to Woo the recruitment team at ABGLP to come to your campus for Summers 2020. Take charge of the opportunity to intern with one of the most prestigious, one of India's largest, and one of the most successful conglomerates. Speak to the Placement Committee and register your campus before 30th June. It doesn’t matter what ranking your B-school has, it doesn’t matter how old or young your B-school is, it doesn’t matter in which corner of the country it is located in. This competition is open to all business schools. If your campus is able to impress the Aditya Birla Group, the Batch of 2021 will stand a chance to intern with some of India’s top businesses, rubbing shoulders with other interns from the top IIMs, and being mentored and guided by pedigreed professionals with a wealth of experience. Think you have what it takes to woo ABG? Here’s how your campus can win:
Summer internships are very funny, in the sense that you get to meet so many new people who are trying (read pretending) to be the most deserving intern that the firm has ever seen, working their backsides off to impress everyone around them and putting on a great entertaining show for everyone every other day.
With the notification popping on my phone screen and nerves full of excitement, I hurriedly read the offer letter asking me to join from 8 th April’2019. The big curve on my face suddenly narrowed down when I confusingly gazed at the location – Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh! Never did I know that the upcoming two months at Lanjigarh (a small town in Kalahandi district of Odisha) would turn out to be a lifetime memorable experience, the imprint of which would never fade away!
Summers is an exciting time in the B-school journey. I too had a mixed bag of feelings and notions about the company and place I was going to. It started with a train journey to Jamshedpur and a stay at the legendary GET hostel. Soon after our orientation session, we were cabbed out to West Bokaro which is a coal mining division of TSL. Here, my project was on “Cost analysis of Amenities, Impact on employees & business due to outsourcing”. It was a 4-hour drive and my first view of Jharkhand’s enticing countryside.
Even before the internship got started, there were butterflies in the stomach. Thoughts like, ''How would the 2 months go by?'', ''Will I be able to manage the work that will be given?'' and the worst of all, ''Do I actually even know what work I will be assigned there''? Woah! It was a conundrum of limitless questions that run through the mind. One thing I can say after finally traversing the 2 months journey is that it was beautiful!
"Dear Candidates,
I vividly remember my first PUMA shoe which my dad gifted me way back in 2008 and since then PUMA has become a part of my life. The brand never stops to excite me. I was super thrilled on seeing the internship application opening for PUMA and be a part of the organization.
