Getting the desired summer internship for someone who fought hard to get in college, fighting with average grades and one lucky shortlist on the first day, is like a dream come true. Summer internship interviews can be a heavy fluctuation of nervousness, and with the mounting pressure, it becomes a nerve game.
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IIM Ahmedabad was recently ranked as the most desirable b-schools in India by InsideIIM users. Check here. With academic rigour that it has and the spectacular placements each year, IIM A definitely leads the pack. IIM Ahmedabad started its Final Placements Process on 11th February 2018 with their Cluster 1 cohorts that included Investment Banking & Markets, Management Consulting & Private Equity, Venture Capital & Hedge Funds. IIM Ahmedabad follows a cluster cohort placement process wherein companies offering similar profiles are grouped into cohorts, and several cohorts are invited to the campus in a particular cluster. The schedule for placements this year is as follows:
Onwards drew November, and with it, the start of the second E.L.I.T.E. rotation. There was an opportunity to work on the World FinTech Report 2018 with the Market Intelligence team; this was only the second edition to be published and the sky was the limit when it came to ideas to make the report and all the events surrounding it stunningly spectacular and downright disruptive.
Hero Campus Challenge is a National Level Case Study Competition, which concluded its third season at Delhi. We have Aman Kapur (First Year, MBA-BM) with us from Team Invincibles (Aman Kapur, Kunal Mahendru and Pooja Nanda) of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, the 2nd runners-up of National Finals, to discuss his enriching experience.
When I was selected to undertake the student exchange program with EDHEC University in France, I said to myself “Mischief thou art afoot, take what course thou wilt.” Student exchange programs in general, and the ones that IIM students undertake in particular, are notorious for being labelled as Euro Trips! Upon selection, I harboured similar ambitions. However, the experiences I had spoke a different story altogether.
Four years back, I was watching a TED Talk with my friend as part of my classwork. That was the day when we wanted to know how one day we, too, can attend the TED conference. Well, we were surprised to know that TED grants licenses to individuals to organise similar events called as TEDx, where x = an independently organized TED Event. I was from Kerala, a state that didn’t have a TEDx event at that time. Hence, I decided to organise a TEDx of my own with a friend.
“And now, the IIM Ahmedabad player is in the opponent’s half with the ball, with the IIM Bangalore player hot on his heels. He skips right past the IIM Calcutta defender, nutmegs the SIBM Pune centre-back and shoots…. Will he get past the IIM goalkeeper…? GOAAAAAALL! IIM Ahmedabad has won the first ever B-School Premier League by a whisker! What an incredible season this has been…”
