The High Note Was The CEO Recognizing A Few Of My Recommendations And Initiatives - Ojas Gohad's Internship At ABG
“It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey!”
“It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey!”
With a lot of uproar going on brexit scenario, we as management freshers also prefer to peek into the wordy(you might prefer it as wordly) turmoil. Besides having our extremely tiring case study lessons, which screw the hell out of us and leaves the vacuum for the next piece of information, which otherwise , if we could digest without puking on our neighbor, as one of the professors keep on reminding us (don’t bite your neighbor, if you aren’t understanding anything), we definitely could digest the GD sessions and the subsequent economic awareness quizzes. Let’s move on to how a management first year student views Brexit, well first of all, our global economic scenario is extremely benevolent to grant us this opportunity to explore all those unlearned concept in learning something as huge as BREXIT.
With a strong yearning to discover more about e-commerce, I was overjoyed beyond words to have bagged an opportunity to intern with eBay India. The fact that I would get to work at the Mumbai Business Head Office of the oldest e-commerce company in India was the icing on the cake. I was getting a seat next to the directors and producers in order to observe how the grand movie actually shapes itself and it changed the way I used to think about ecommerce in India.
HOW IT ALL STARTED I still remember my early days into B-school life. However nascent I may have been as far as the MBA program was concerned, I was pretty developed in my thoughts of working in E-Commerce sector and that is the mindset with which I entered IIFT Delhi. The "usual" engineer that I am, courtesy my undergraduate degree, means that I am also a technocrat and simply find it fascinating to see how technology is not only impacting lives, but also completely revolutionising the way we do pretty much everything. This forms the basis of my love and passion for E-Commerce sector. Even while I was working with my last organisation before MBA, I somewhere craved to head towards the E-Commerce sector. So it was natural that I aimed for securing an internship offer in an E-Commerce firm and I consider myself fortunate enough that not only IIFT provided me enough opportunities for the same, but also I managed to bag an internship offer with Clues Network Private Ltd. (henceforth referred to as ShopClues).
“Girl, you have bagged one of the most difficult marketing internships – Pharma Marketing!” – this is what one of my JBIMS colleagues had exclaimed when the final result of Abbott Summer Internship was announced. Well, I now realize what my colleague really meant then. And this realization meandered in my mind as soon as I embarked on this internship and you will know why as you go through my summer internship journey. Along with this, I will be also going to share some of my key learnings (tidbits) from this internship which will double up as an advice for future MBA internship students, especially the ones who wish to pursue internships in the marketing domain.
Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi is a dream that many MBA aspirants carry. It’s a dream that very few attain. But is it good enough to beat the top IIM? I guess it depends on who you ask. I know of quite a few people who chose the red building over the other esteemed b-schools. And when I asked them, if they made the right choice, they said they will never know, but it hasn’t hurt them yet. So in the year 2015, when I was faced the same dilemma, I chose the path that many wouldn’t. I picked FMS. My reasons were clear but I went through a rough one week trying to decide.
Human life is ephemeral but great experiences make this life to be cherished and nurtured. One such experience I had while working at HSBC as an intern.