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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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