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       •  I kept taking notes of anything and everything as its very easy to forget a few things when you are working
          on something that you haven’t done before. I also worked on my HR questions as they are asked in the final
          presentations.
       •  Apart from multiple presentations to the client, we had to prepare a final deck for the leadership of PwC.
          We had a session with Kavan (Partner, Campus ambassador for NITIE) and he briefed us as to what partners
          expect, I also talked to my director regarding final presentation and got to know that people at the top don’t
          care about finer details, numbers is what matters to them. That was a great insight. I also got my final deck
          reviewed by my director and although he was travelling, he sent me the feedback at 2 am and those were
          very very good suggestions.
       •  I also talked to alumni who had received PPO and tried to understand the expectations of partners for final
          presentation.

       •  I also timed my presentation by practising it at least 10 times. So, by the time, I went for final presentation,
          I was so confident that I could have presented without the decks.


       ❖ What are the things to keep in mind in the internship?
       •  There are two things that could happen, either you will like the work/industry and would want a PPO or you
          won’t like the work/industry and would want to try for something different in LRP/CPR. But you should work
          with the same zeal in both the cases because even if you don’t like the work you need to justify it during
          LRP/CRP.
       •  You  are  there  to  learn  and  you  are  bound  to  make  mistakes  in  the  process.  So  you  should  not  be
          overwhelmed if things are not going your way. Keep trying, Ask you mentor and things will fall in place.
       •  One of my takeaways from the internship is that Consulting is a People Business. You have to constantly
          interact/negotiate with different people. In my case I was dealing with people across hierarchies, right from
          a blue collar worker to the Plant head and SBU head.

       ❖ What pre-internship preparation do you suggest for juniors?

       •  Consultants are supposed to be generalists, so there is not specific subject you should focus on but since
          NITIE has this brand image of SCM/Ops, I would recommend to just brush up the SCM/Ops jargons like Time
          &  motion  study,  Line  balancing,  Takt  time,  TAT  time,  Kaizen,  Kanban  etc  to  be  able  to  engage  in  a
          sophisticated conversation.
       •  Although I did not work on it, I would recommend learning VBAs/Macros as sometimes the projects can be
          data heavy and some people had to work on VBAs/Macros.
























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