Summer Internship at Pentair Gulf Valve FZE: A Sales Saga (well, sort of)
This is an experience of a recently-finished first year student of IIM Indore PGP UAE batch of 2015.
This is an experience of a recently-finished first year student of IIM Indore PGP UAE batch of 2015.
My summer internship experience can be best described as a flux in which I transformed from a complete novice to someone who now has a little understanding of the corporate machinery. Most say that it is a stepping stone to a career that lies ahead, I would prefer to term it as my springboard.
It was 3 pm. I refreshed my corporate mailbox. There was a mail from the HR with the subject- “End review schedule for finance interns-28th May”. “Whaaat!!” I exclaimed, realizing I was a little too loud for the intern room where other interns were either typing something frantically on their laptops or were loosened up in their bean bags at some corner, trying to catch up on an afternoon nap. “But that is just 2 days away!” I said in a hushed voice this time to Aayushi who was sitting right next to me. The mail had struck my realization chord in two ways. Firstly, I had only 2 days to complete my half-finished project and presentation. And secondly, it meant that the remarkable journey of two months was finally coming to an end. All I knew was how badly I was going to miss it all.
Seldom has any city left as indelible an impression on me as did Bangalore. It is the city that I embraced for my internship at a blue-chip firm in the finance/banking domain. While I will present my experience of both the stay and the work to my potential recruiters as ground-breaking and life-changing, I will spare you the hyperbole since you aren’t a recruiter, rather just an unsuspecting reader! I have read numerous accounts of people’s internship experiences and so would you have. I don’t know if this will be better or worse than them, but I can promise that it will be from the heart and not the brain.
(This entry is being submitted for Summer Saga 2014 contest conducted by InsideIIM)
After a rousing welcome from InterGlobe Enterprises in their head office, we were sent to our companies for induction. I was one of the three interns working with InterGlobe’s technology division. There was when I meet my mentor- who very glad to see us in typical MBA attire!