My Summer Saga at Axis Bank, Mumbai
Mumbai, Mumbai, the city of dreams for many. Was it going to be an enriching summer for me, only time would tell?
Mumbai, Mumbai, the city of dreams for many. Was it going to be an enriching summer for me, only time would tell?
(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!
12 November, 2013:
As Delhi reels in the heat, with a look towards the sky with the hope of monsoons, for its people, the summers are not yet over. But if you ask any second year B-school student in India, the summers are done and dusted with. So is the case with me, as I finished my internship at Citibank in Banking Operations profile.
A typical night during my summer internship, yeah right not day, would consist of scrambling through heaps of data and excel files to find sourcing opportunity for one of the world's biggest and most reputed Foods company based out of USA. I never experienced working in a start-up before, but now I can very well relate to the experience having to chart out every objective and every strategy to tackle it, on my own. Since, I was tasked to find out the most economical supplier of a particular agricultural commodity with the best possible quality, there were no quantifiable goals set for me by my mentors. "Welcome to the club! Global Sourcing is a really niche function where you will be untangling a labyrinth of filters and sub-filters as to why NOT to choose this supplier or that. If anything survives those filters, you just got your million-dollar supplier!", I remember one of the previous interns telling me, with characteristic solemnness, on phone during my first week of internship. He couldn't have been more correct.