{"id":8612,"date":"2020-06-19T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:50:04","slug":"ifmr-gsb-mba-internship-stories-sumit-jha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/ifmr-gsb-mba-internship-stories-sumit-jha\/","title":{"rendered":"IFMR GSB MBA-Internship Stories | Sumit Jha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IFMR GSB MBA-Internship Stories are a series of interviews with the students of IFMR GSB, who have recently completed their Summer Internships. Here, Sumit Jha, MBA 2021 shares his internship experience and learnings at Credit Suisse.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could you tell us about the organization you have completed\/are doing your internship from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credit Suisse is a global wealth manager, investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. It mainly focuses on global markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you focus on a specific domain while participating in summer placements? How did you approach the whole process? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I was focused on Risk Management.  Before the placement season, I spoke to seniors within the MBA programme and did ample research on the roles offered by Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the internship has successfully concluded, could you reflect on your experience through the same?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a learning perspective, the experience was great. I was able to gain deep practical understanding of risk management practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How was the environment of the company, the resources, employees and work culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The employees were friendly, helpful and approachable. The resources were great, from learning tools to hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were the key challenges you faced during your internship and how did you overcome them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting appointments for meeting slots with senior stakeholders was challenging as their schedules were always packed. Though continuous follow up and reaching out to them over the phone eventually helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about the learnings you garnered from this internship? Are there any milestones you would like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The skills I learnt at Credit Suisse has helped me develop a practical understanding to complement the theoretical knowledge I will be acquiring in my MBA programme. I completed my deliverables before the assigned deadline and that was a definite milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think it\u2019s important for an MBA student to do an internship? What values\/skills can a student gain from a summer placement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it is important. Practical understanding of concepts can help align your career, provide information related to upskilling and importantly tell you whether you should work in this domain or a change is required. It also helps decide, which subjects you should study in your final year or which stream to choose, whether generalisation will be suitable or specialisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During your internship, how were you connected with your academic mentor(s) at the institute?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in constant touch with my mentor over email and phone. The ensuing conversation along with constant support, aided in shaping a  great internship experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you prefer to return to the organization for a job opportunity in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I would definitely want to return to Credit Suisse for a job opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With due consideration to COVID-19, all internships were moved to the virtual mode- how was that navigating through this new experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I missed the in-person experience and the fact that substantial learning during internships comes from shadowing a senior resource which is tough in the virtual mode but given the dire situation, Credit Suisse did the best in the circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could you tell us how the remote working experience was, with respect to building team rapport, internal communication and work as a whole?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire experience was great, given the security challenges COVID-19 posed. The team was very supportive, internal communications were crystal clear and from a work perspective the experience was helpful as I learned some important practical concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My internship with JP Morgan Chase & Co. started, when the uncertainty in businesses across the globe was building up. However, none of that affected the work or the interactions between the firm and the interns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-internship-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}