The process is competitive and sixty days is not a lot of time. The kind of problems that companies expect interns to solve are mostly complex and may involve doing a little homework before entering the arena. But this may not be the case with everyone. An intern is expected to give practical solutions to the real-time problems that companies are facing, and if they like your work, they may even get implemented across the organization/ part of the organization. Every institute must be putting in resources to polish their students in every way. Students are taking help of professors, going through research papers, pouring over books in the library or maybe just googling over things that might be helpful.
The first round of competition among b-school students happens when they fight out to get into the best companies during the summer placement season. The level of competition among them is so high that nobody wants to face it again during the final placement season. Therefore, the PPO becomes a priority at the end of the internship and the not so lucky ones live to fight another day.
But for some of us, the internship is about an experience. It is about getting to know more about management. It is about going to a new city and meeting industry experts and a lot of other new people. People already have plans of taking weekends off to some nearby getaways to chill out or maybe even watch an IPL game live.
Even I am going through a lot of what I mentioned above. The pressure of performing is high, let’s see how it turns out.
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