Know all about IBS SIP: Interview with Badr Parvez (Student, IBS Gurgaon)

ICFAI Business School (IBS) Gurgaon is a private management institute in Haryana. The vision of the institute is to create a new class of managers for the competitive business world. IBS Gurgaon offers a two year Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) programme. Admission to IBS Gurgaon course is on the basis of CAT/ GMAT/ NMAT/ IBSAT test scores and the performance in the Group Discussion & Personal Interview. ICFAI Business School also assists students in providing them with internship opportunities through its Summer Internship Program (SIP).

Careers360 brings you an interview with Badr Parvez, Student at IBS Gurgaon. He is doing her Post Graduate Diploma in Management programme in marketing and analytics from IBS Gurgaon. In this interview, Badr has shared his experience at the college. What is life like inside the institute? How did he choose the PGPM programme? And other things about ICFAI Business School like the Summer Internship Program and how it's helpful to students. To know more about ICFAI Business School SIP from a student's perspective go through the complete interview of Badr Parvez with Careers360 given below.

Careers360. Tell us something about yourself. (a bit of the background like graduation, place and any such thing)?

Badr Parvez. My name is Badr Parvez. I am a PGPM student at IBS Gurgaon. I am pursuing my PGPM degree in marketing and analytics. I have 2 years of work experience with nThrive global solutions Gurgaon, which is into US Healthcare. Apart from academics and professional career, I am a sports enthusiast.

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Careers360. Tell us something about your IBS campus and what made you choose it?

Badr Parvez. When I was working with nThrive global solutions, I was suggested to do MBA to have a career growth but I never wanted to leave Gurgaon so few of my friends and seniors suggested that I should look at the PG management programme at IBS Gurgaon. I did the search and found IBS Gurgaon to be one of the best PGPM institute. I appeared for the IBS entrance exam (CAT/ GMAT/ NMAT/ IBSAT) and cleared the interview and consider myself lucky to have taken admission at IBS Gurgaon.

Careers360. What is the course you are pursuing at IBS and what made you choose this specialisation?

Badr Parvez. I am pursuing PGPM from IBS Gurgaon with specialisation in marketing and analytics. In the beginning I was not clear which specialisation to pursue but with due course of time the faculty members, seniors, and the non-credit courses like IMPACT (IBS mentoring, placement advisory counselling and training) helped me to realise that marketing with analytics best suits my personality and I can build my career in the same.

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Careers360. Summer internship is mandatory in all IBS campuses. Where did you pursue it and what was the duration? What were the steps to get into it?

Badr Parvez. The Summer Internship Program of 14 weeks is unique to IBS. It is to be pursued after the second semester. During 2nd semester I realised that the FMCG sector best suits my personality and I started looking for good FMCG companies. I shortlisted a few companies like AMUL, ITC, HUL and Dabur. I applied at all these companies, I got the 1st interview call from AMUL. The process involved a face to face interview. I cracked the interview and got selected at AMUL, Janakpuri, Delhi. Working in Amul helped me apply the concepts learned in the classroom at IBS. This gave me a lot of exposure and benefitted me immensely.

Careers360. Please give details on the assistance you received from the faculty, peers and placement office with regard to the internships?

Badr Parvez. During the second semester various IMPACT sessions were organised where I interacted with the faculty members and placement managers and discussed how to start my career in the right direction. From those discussions only I realised that doing an internship in the FMCG sector will help me start my career in the right direction. I also received ample guidance from my faculty guide who gave me inputs on structuring my internship project. The feedback that I received after each of the four rounds of evaluation helped me immensely in improving my report and presentation and this ultimately led to me winning the prestigious IBSAF Award for Excellence in Summer Internship.

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Careers360. How was your experience with the summer internships? What are the key takeaways that you can look back on from it?

Badr Parvez. I worked with Amul for around 100 days and had a wonderful experience. I did Sales, Marketing and Distribution for AMUL, Janakpuri, Delhi. The key takeaways from the IBS SIP are as follows-

• Technical understanding- Worked on Salesforce and had good knowledge about it.
• Networking- I believe my success at AMUL was because of networking. I managed to add value to the organisation because of networking.
• Fear of sales- I was afraid of doing sales. But, after completing my internship I realised that although doing sales was challenging but I had a lot of new learnings which helped me crack my final placement interview.

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