I am a student of PGPBM and my area of specialization is
HR. I got a good chance to do my internship from Emami, a fast growing FMCG
company in India. My topic of internship was “Recruitment and Selection”.
As this was my first corporate experience, I was full
of excitement and enthusiasm. On the very first day, my project guide provided a
thorough detail of the rules and regulations I needed to follow during the two
months. She had created a
motivating list of tasks and assignments that I would complete during the two
month’s internship. These included: preparation of Job
Descriptions and Job Specifications of different candidates depending upon
their profiles, selecting the right candidate through job portals like naukri,
monster etc, correction of employees PF and Gratuity forms and so on. My internship was entirely unpaid,
including any possible reimbursement for my auto expenses. I was a junior, and
therefore my course work was at its most difficult and plentiful stage – but I
was spending a minimum of fifteen hours per week immersed in this experience.
However, I learned
several valuable lessons including the importance of having perseverance at the
workplace. It was also a great opportunity to learn the specific details about
how a particular company works when it comes to Recruitment of higher
management as well as to operation level managers. This
project provided me with an opportunity to study group interaction in a
regulated environment in that there was a specific outcome with a specific
deadline. Apart from this I learned to act and look professional, and learned
to carry on intelligent conversations about the industry, and specially to deal
with people while it comes about offering their salary.