Getting into a b-school is all about fighting against all odds. But for some people, it isn't always a level playing field. Some people have to strive through more than the CAT preparation and interview calls. They have to keep going and chasing their dream with even more determination. And if they can do it, you can too.
You have various calculations in life, various dreams in life and for sure some short-term goals which can exist in any quadrant of the Johari Window. I joined XAHR (previously XIMB-HRM) as a fresher with no exposure to the industry and the corporate world. The beginning was tough, but then the calmness settled. We started approaching towards one of the best experiences in B-School, the Summer Internship. With tons of opportunities, I found myself interning with the biggest private sector company in India, Reliance Industries Ltd.
After all the tough times, sleepless nights, late-night studies, solving aptitude, reading English articles, memorizing vocabulary, revising formulas, clearing CAT or XAT or NMAT or MH-CET or some other entrance exam and after that giving GDs and interviews, and clearing them too. Finally, you prepare yourself for a b-school you have been eying for a long time.
December 22, the last day of our second semester, was when I got selected for the Summer Internship Program at Netcore Solutions, India’s first full-stack marketing automation company. Merry Christmas indeed!
A plethora of products stacked in numerous shelves with which caters to almost every shopping mission of a wide customer base; that’s what an experience in retail has to offer. When you have got to sell everything under one roof to everyone, you need to understand the subtle needs of the customer as well as the business to meet your KPIs. Every corner of that store is significant, and each touchpoint has something valuable to offer in terms of influencing your shopper.
The best part of two months of internship is getting the knowhow of how a firm develops. From using the marketing concepts of Kotler to using the concepts of finance of understanding the subtle nuances of profit-loss. I actually got the unique experience of working in different verticals and understanding the day to day obstructions and how to get past.
When joining in a B-School every aspirant will be looking for the infrastructure, specialities, achievements, faculties of the college. I also googled about these features of different IIM’s. Even though most of the New IIM’s ranked on a similar ground on these features I chose IIM Raipur over other new IIM’s. It's not just the ranking of the Institute for which I chose IIM Raipur. There are various other reasons which make my campus unique which I will be discussing in the following article.
Normally people judge a college by its infrastructure, faculties and its placement figures and but rarely people ask for its culture. I would rather say that college cannot be declared good until or unless it has a good culture. And this is what IIM Raipur is rich at it.
