”You can take anything you want from this freezer any time in the day”.
This was when the internship actually started!
On a serious note, I began my assignment as a Sales & Marketing intern. I began by drafting a weekly plan, getting acquainted with my colleagues and getting to know how the industry and the firm operates. Having got a glimpse, I started developing my plan, meeting customers, visiting competitor outlets and trying to develop some “STRATEGY”. It was exciting to be able to use the concepts learnt in these 8 months of PGP course. I felt I had already devised certain ways to crack the code of the project. I prepared a detailed action plan and everything seemed to be falling in place. That was when the mentor called me for the first meet. The next 15 minutes left me baffled. He had listed some 10 stereotypical recommendations which he keeps receiving from aspiring interns from premier institutes and just dismissed them in a go saying these were simply not fitting the ideals, the vision and the lean structure of the organization. I was now in an organization which expected a real core marketing idea with a lean investment.
Standing here a week down on the internship lane, I could only think of one quote by Nancy Thayer which reads:
“It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
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About the Author:
Ramakrishnan Subramanian
IIM Visakhapatnam
PGP 2015-17
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