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❖ A brief overview of the project
Based on my past experience, I was aligned to Strategy
service line. My project involved preparation of a
commercial launch strategy for a USA based pharmaceutical
client's new therapy to treat a specific type of blood cancer.
The therapy was in a clinical trial phase during my project
period and my team's goal was to prepare a full fledged
launch strategy for the therapy in the USA market. It
involved site (hospital) sequencing and archetyping, site
certification process, resourcing strategy and triage
escalation plan.

❖ How is a normal day at the Internship?
MIRAL BAKUL PARIKH
A typical day at Deloitte used to start with a Skype

DELOITTE USI conference call at 7:30 am IST which involved on-shore and
off-shore teams. During this call, the onshore team
__________________________________________ discussed with us about the client meetings and work

GENERAL INFORMATION progress during their workday. Based on our discussions, we
used work during our workday. I always took the morning

Batch: PGDIM 25 calls from home.
After the call, I used to reach office around 10 am and clarify
BTech: Sardar Patel College of the work for the day with my offshore team. We were a 4-

member team. Then 4 of us (one consultant was working
Engineering Mumbai
from different location) used to worked on our respective
Stream: Mechanical deliverables which involved a lot of brainstorming and
discussions.
Work Ex: Thyssenkrupp

At 6:30 pm in the evening, we again had evening touch point call with the onshore team to transfer our work
during the day.

After that, I used to complete the leftover project work and then switch to my firm initiative (FI) which is internal

work of Deloitte where again I used to discuss the deliverables with the FI team.

So yes, my typical day at Deloitte used to be pretty long. But then it was not the case with every intern out

there. It depends on your service line and the kind of project you get.

❖ What are the challenges faced during Internship?

Firstly, my project was quite complex, and it took some time for me to understand the entire project and its

requirements. I got the hold of it by discussing about it more and more with my team mates who were always

there for me.

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