Patience
They are the leaders in PC market since years and have offered great roles with a good stipend and came very late for the process at IMT. Furthermore, when I had joined my mentors were travelling so I had nothing at all to do in initial days. Patience was the key. I made friends around me which helped me later. Be Patient. It Helps.
Start The Conversation
It is very important to build a good conversation with people around. It is through them that we learn the most because they all have tremendous experience in their domains. Conversation shall be started with either asking for help and giving help. It makes it appear more genuine and helps in the longer run.
I thought of helping a person next to me when I was free. He gave me the details and in the due course has taught me several things. That person eventually became my other mentor since he was the product manager (Asia Pacific Japan Team) of the project I am working on. (His project was so interesting that I asked my mentor to work on it. Guess what? I got it!)
Sincerity
It is this key element by which everyone in company judges you. People around me valued willingness to learn. I was quite pathetic in the quality of work initially and my mentor has always told me how can I improve it. I improved it, showed it, got it wrong, improved it, showed and the cycle was endless. But, it helped me to learn in the best possible way.
Ownership
Taking responsibility for entire project and working on different work streams (finance, partnership, research, marketing campaigns, pricing, STP, value proposition, geographical expansion, Business model, channel management…etc.). My mentors have not only guided me on strategising all of it but also helped in on smaller aspects like using pivot table on Excel for data analysis. This I believe gave me an all-around view of how the projects in a company work. They have involved me in their global meetings, country heads meetings, partners meet (with Microsoft country head) so that I get diverse perspectives from different work streams.
Now, with all the emotions in the baggage, the epilogue cannot be complete without a heartiest “Thanks” to the organisation and its people.
GRACIAS
~Heeransh
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