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A North Indian In Chennai - Suhail Kutub's Internship Experience - XLRI Jamshedpur

“Weather in Chennai would feel like you are sitting in a sauna”, “Chennai! You will have three challenges to manage – weather, language and of course the internship”, “For a North Indian, Chennai is like a punishment posting. Make sure you don’t get yourself burned”. As soon as I declared among my family and friends that I will be going to Chennai for the internship, I was greeted with above such motivating statements and that too mostly from people who have never ever been to Chennai before.

Nitya's Internship Experience With FMCG Marketing At ITC - XLRI Jamshedpur

Summer Internships are the culmination of a lot of things, expectations from the corporate world, application of all the theory we have learnt during sleepless nights and a test of fit if the company and the individual form a good fit.

On Love, Depression And My Journey To IIM Lucknow

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Perfecting Sales With Perfetti - Diptatej Mishra's Summer Internship Experience

ALWAYS INNOVATING WHAT CONFECTIONERY CAN DO. That was the tagline below their logo, Perfetti Van Melle’s. An internship with an FMCG major in a sales role is an experience of a lifetime. Things become more interesting and challenging when you’re sent to the market. You get to see how sales, the life force of any firm, happens on the ground. How thousands of salesmen across the country travel into remote areas every day even in the most unforgiving of summers with their order books and pitch the company’s products from shop to shop? How they push a particular product? How do they convince the shopkeeper to buy Perfetti’s products? How do they manage to do all this while ensuring that they do not get a heat stroke?

A Much Needed Internship Experience At Whirlpool Corporation - Shreeya Dash - IMT Ghaziabad

When we join a b-school, the first milestone is to secure an internship. The entire process is daunting since we are just a few months into the curriculum and we are expected to sit through interviews and processes equivalent to a job interview. I faced a similar situation in my internship experience.

The Kickstart Of Corporate Exposure With A Start Up - Saswati's Internship Experience With Gray Routes Technologies - XIMB

On Shanmugam Manjunath And The Road Less Travelled

This article is first in the series of articles “The Road Less Travelled.” Through this series, I will introduce you to MBAs who in spite of their high paying jobs decided to serve the nation, became entrepreneurs, fought corruption, helped the needy and made everyone proud. 

Education System In India - Does Is It Always Have To Be Bad?

Why must the License Raj in Higher Education go? 25 years ago, Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister, supported by PV Narsimha Rao started the process of dismantling the License Raj. The results are indisputable except by the die-hard commies. GDP growth and Poverty reduction rates were much higher post-1991 than any time since independence.