When an intern has the freedom to walk in at 1.00 P.M. and leave at 7.00 P.M., which speaks a lot about the organisation. I was given clear objectives with dedicated timelines (and not deadlines) so that I can work at my own pace and deliver without being micromanaged.
I have seen students giving feedbacks like - “We weren’t treated like interns and more like regular employees”. Fidelity was not the same. Every single day we were indeed treated like interns and that means being treated like the youngest one in the family where everyone is willing to take care of you. My mentor was there to help me at every step and right before my presentation when I was a bit nervous, he boosted my confidence by giving me the ‘Gyaan’ I desperately needed - “Nobody knows about your work more than you do, so relax!”
While I was leaving, I said 60 days is a very short time for anyone to learn anything significant and yet I have. But what matters more than my learnings is the awareness that this internship has given me of how to make the most out of my final year of MBA.
There will be many jobs to come and many projects to do but this shall always be the closest to my heart for this is the place where it all began.
About the Author:
Shubham Kala is a native of Uttarakhand with last 5 years in New Delhi. He has done his graduation in Electronics from Delhi University, post which he worked with Squared Monitoring, a media monitoring firm. He joined SIBM Bengaluru in 2016 where currently he is pursuing his second year of MBA in Finance. Coordinator of ‘SymBeat- the official web magazine of SIBM B’ and SIBM B Toastmasters Club, his interests lie in reading- almost anything and everything, public speaking and writing.
In a nutshell, Shubham is an electronics undergrad, with an internship in Analytics, now pursuing Finance with interests in geopolitics. According to him, he is trying and failing and failing again to figure out where his calling lies.
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