When I first met my manager, I never imagined that managers could be so humble (blame my preconceived notions!). He made me so comfortable that it did not take me long to feel like a member of the team. Later came the real challenge when I was assigned my internship project “Credit Insurance and Risk Mitigation” but the whole team made my journey so smooth by patiently guiding me at every step. During my internship, I realised how real-life experiences can accelerate the learning curve by exposing you to a practical situation faced by the companies.
I won’t bore you with the work that I did at Schneider but I would love to share the various other experience that fascinated me.
If I had to choose one key learning from my 2-month experience it would through the kind of importance I got there. Even though everyone in the department was extremely busy with their work but they never neglected my queries and enthusiasm. Every member of the team taught me everything so patiently that I never felt I was an outsider.
With the tag of IIM comes the responsibility too and same was felt by me when everyone in the organisation believed that students of IIMs are best from the crowd and the way they wanted to hear my point of view and took all my suggestions seriously even though I had no practical experience. I learnt that ‘No matter what your age is the student inside you should never die.’
Second would be the way my Manager handled the whole team. He has a big role in shaping up my first corporate experience. Although he had a very busy schedule then also he made sure that he spends at least some time with the whole team. There was not even a single day where the whole team did not have lunch together. Those informal discussions and sharing of food not only connected the whole team together but also encouraged everyone to share their opinions irrespective of the position they hold in the organisation. My manager taught me that, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Lastly, I understood that “it takes only one smile and one question to break the ice”. There were so many people in the organisation who started recognising me and started to have a conversation with me even though I was not part of their team. It all became possible because of the exchange of smile while crossing each other or by showing the courage to ask a question while refilling bottles, taking coffee or by just simply saying ‘hi’ for no random reason.
I can’t believe my two-month journey got over so quickly but I’ll always cherish each and every moment spent in Schneider. I’ll for sure miss my desk and the amazing friends I made over there. But right now I am going through those goosebumps moments where I am also not aware whether I could get a full-time opportunity in one of the Global Fortune 500 companies.
Let’s wish everything turns out to be positive.
Comments
Hafis Javed
Inspiring story...great job
29 May 2019, 12.04 AM
Jyoti Munjal
Great work Aashi❤
29 May 2019, 12.21 AM
Jeetesh Varshney
Jeetesh Varshney holds an MBA from the IIM Udaipur and was a member of the InsideIIM Student Team and representative of Placement Preparation Committee of IIMU. He has previously completed his Computer Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur and has work experience in software development. He is an avid reader and loves travelling and exploring new places and cultures. He is someone who learned a lot from InsideIIM while preparing for his management entrance exams and now writing stories on InsideIIM to share his experiences for the benefit of the future aspirants.
Good Read! All the very best
29 May 2019, 12.23 AM
Shivam Aggarwal
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Amazing journey... Best of luck for your future endeavors
29 May 2019, 12.28 AM
Meena Sheokand
Basketball lover 🏀❤❤🏀🏀
Good job Aashi❤ All the best ❤
29 May 2019, 12.41 AM
Nikhil Gupta
All the very best!!
29 May 2019, 08.47 AM
Anjali Gupta
This is really something that you shared with us. Such an inspiration and encouraging article. Keep it up!!
29 May 2019, 09.48 AM
Anshu Narwal
Good job Aashi
29 May 2019, 10.26 AM