Decoding GEnius : An HR Sojourn At GE Digital

1st June 2018. It was when this riveting journey of 8 weeks reached its official ending. The HR leader for GE Digital India had arranged a small farewell meet-up for me in the afternoon where she had invited all the HRMs in her team. It was however conspicuous by the absence of two very important people in my journey – my mentor, who had delivered her second baby just a couple of days ago and the HRM, an alumnus of my college, with whom I shared my cubicle and was almost like a sounding board for all my innovative as well as ‘not so innovative’ ideas – busy with one of his never-ending strategic meet-ups with the business leaders.  Nevertheless in the meeting, we ended up exchanging a lot of light-hearted moments that we shared with each other over the course of my internship and the takeaways from them in the form of continues and considers (The GE terminology for encouragement to continue good work done and constructive criticism for areas that can be improved). One HRM remarked that the presentation I had prepared was amongst one of the most aesthetic ones that he had seen in his entire career. That coming from a person who has served in prestigious companies like GE, EY, and Tata Steel over a long career was a real shot in the arm for me. The HR leader for GE Digital jokingly recollected about me taking the program managers through almost 50 slides in just 29 minutes in almost a single breath. Well, that was something that summed up the story of my internship – fast, frantic, so less time – yet so much to achieve!