7 Steps To Bag An Enviable Summer Internship In Marketing - Tips From An HUL Summer Intern
What is that one thing that captures the entire mind space of each and every first year MBA student at this time of the year?
What is that one thing that captures the entire mind space of each and every first year MBA student at this time of the year?
The first major milestone after joining your b-school is Summer Internship! Before joining MBA, I was gasping in disbelief when I heard that summers (Summer Internship placement is fondly called as Summers) would happen in September. It was hard for me to believe as I would have barely gained much “MBA Knowledge” and on what grounds would I get selected and all that. The sequence of the recruitment is Pre-process and/or resume based shortlist and/or psychometric test, case discussion/group discussion followed by an interview(s). In the same order, let me brief you how to ace each of these rounds.
The 90s kids seem to have found a new problem to be worried about. They are not worried about buying their first house or accrual of large savings. The question on all their minds is “When will I be able to shop without having to look at the price tag?”. More than just being a problem, it is now also the metric of success and the place we think if we reach, new would have achieved it all in our lives. Think about the many times you may have thought about this while at a store filled with your favourites!
Greetings to all the future Summer Interns.
Not many job hunters know that they have less than 30 seconds to make the first impression and get noticed by a prospective recruiter. This short period of time is usually enough for a hiring manager to look through your resume and decide whether they will put it in the interview pile or not. Unless your application document is persuasive and impressive enough, it may end up in the reject pile and, as a result, you won’t get a chance to market yourself in person. In this article, we are going to share with you some of the useful advice on how to get noticed by a hiring manager in the first 30 seconds and win the job interview.
Let’s imagine a job hunter who has three or four job interviews each day. He starts early in the morning and finishes late in the evening and through the day one recruiter after the other rejects him. Being a recent college graduate with no work experience this is quite obvious. For the next few months, his applications were constantly rejected and a promised offer letter was never sent to him. The key to his future success is that he didn’t give up. He changed and improved his resume based on the feedback he got from hiring managers, and he continued to schedule job interviews until he finally landed a federal job that was suitable for him.
The choice of which b-school to choose for that coveted management degree might perhaps be the most critical decision that we take in the early part of our lives. Keeping aside the significant implications it has on our work life, in the long run, the amount of investment that goes in terms of cost (both actual and opportunity) and time is big enough to give sleepless nights to most. Terms like ROI (Return on Investment), assets, collateral etc. no longer remain unknown jargons and we are forced to quantify them on our lives. It's not for nothing that we have a plethora of forums that try to make it easier for the candidates by providing them with any and every kind of detail that they might require in making that decision.
Let’s imagine a job hunter who had three or four job interviews each day. He started early in the morning and finished late in the evening and through the day one recruiter after the other rejected him. Being a recent college graduate with no work experience is a quite obvious reason. For the next few months, his applications were constantly rejected and promised offer letters were never sent to him. The key to his future success is that he didn’t give up. He changed and improved his resume based on the feedback he got from hiring managers, and he continued to schedule job interviews until he finally landed a federal job that was suitable for him.