Hello Folks,
A very awesome summer Internship experience over here at Bangalore but i know as promised earlier this post would be dedicated to my Winter Internship experience at PepsiCo. The name PepsiCo itself excites right..!!! Why not the brand that drives entire world not only India crazy. Yes I am in there when Shewag had a wonderful 200 in one day cricket and when India stumbled at Aussiez pitches. I am there in a place where the temperature went down to 0.8` C for a south Indian guy who thinks 24 is the coldest temperature ever. The true fact is that i hate all PepsiCo products but ended in drinking one or other in the office of 45 days internship ( Its Free folks except Tropicana including Lays ).
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| Invitation for the PepsiCo Day |
First before the off shots let me get in to the point how i grabbed the internship at the FMCG biggie of the world. Its an interesting story. Krishna whose only asset or positive is networking was rejected in the placement committee selections. Surprized not only me but also my fellow friends (few). Its ok every has thier own selection criteria as the senior placecom had. And days went by with internal politics in the class to its peak but the fire that has litten on my ass for my rejection in placecom made me shift the networking time from facebook to LinkedIn - The professional Networking site. With basic foundation course from my ex-manager Mr.Manu Sri Kumar the real Alchemist of my life i started building my profile and adding people. With strong determination of restriction to members as only HRs in my profile it grew day by day. Had my own strategy of asking the profile connections to be my mentors for the Masters course and moved the tools of tactics to regular interaction on a weekly basis with various discussions on case studies , Burning HR issues, Real time problems. This not only resulted in knowledge sharing but also my Winter Internship Opportunity making use of the 30 day holiday period between semesters. Resulted in query posting the opportunity of an Internship for a duration of 45 days with my profiles finally landed me with four opportunities . . Bharati Cements, Apollo Hospitals, teleDNA and the Mighty PepsiCo. Thanks to LinkedIn.
Wanna Have a look at my LinkedIn Profile here it goes : Krishna Vamsi - LinkedIn
Starting my journey for the first time in my life to the northern part of country landed in the Capital City of Nation New Delhi with a wonderful travelling experience in Rajdhani( Of course if travelling to Delhi is first time its obvious that travelling in Rajdhani is also for the first time). Had a beautiful welcome from one of my PagalGuy friend Annu Pandey and helped me to enter the most prestigious and modern Cheez of Delhi - The Metro. Guess wat I am here staying with my the old same manager " Manu Sri Kumar" who was shifted to Career Builder - India as Marketing Manager to New Delhi location. Excitement to the peaks entered the office of PepsiCo on the first day with warm welcome of Katrina ( Model for Slice) posters every where inside the office. I thought it was the motivation factor for PepsiCo employees to work hard harder and hardest. Greeted with a smile by my manager "Vidhu Arora" entered in to the HR floor of PepsiCo India. To my surprise it was so cool ... Not the AC idiots .. the way it looked completely filled by posters, hangouts, fruits, Pepsi machines, people chilling out.
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| PepsiCo India Corporate Office - HR - Gurgaon |
Had an initial discussion with my mentor and given task of understanding the Intranet of PepsiCo. Surprized her by completing it fast with suggestable changes that can make it look better really impressed her ( Over Performance yeah yeah ..!!!). She said this would be one of your project other than handling the Performance development review handling of entire India. It shocked me when i came to know that i would be single point of contact for all the regional HRs regarding the PDR. The entire PDR(Performance Development Review) was handled in the form of a contest of KBC with Shrimati Tik Tiki and Padhao with entire India Plant locations and Business units being divided in to Teams. There were stages and deadlines and contests for each and every level of PDR. I was asked to take the feedback from all HRs which as usual excited me with here and there tasks of Internal Communication which i used to complete in jet speed and my Vidhu got accustomed to my speed and used to send me for movies in case she finds me sitting quite. Forgot to mention PVR is just a metro away from PepsiCo office. As days pass on i got the complete control on PepsiCo Org Structure, the PDR evaluation module, Made friends with all India HRs of PepsiCo ( Some even used to discuss movie reviews, Breakfast varieties and Cricket Scores). On the other hand the Revamping of Intranet work also went on parallely. But some way or other i always tried to interact with the talent Acquisition Team where my heart lies in though I am working with Organisation Capability Team. Finally Vidhu told "by the end of Internship i will make u like the OC team and domain" and yes she was successful in same. She made me love the Organisation capability domain and the team. And the Winter Internship came to an end with successful completion of PDR contest and also revamping of Intranet ( Which is implemented ). The last day was the word with Suchithra the head of OC team who started asking me the question - " Tell me now which is the best OC or TA. i replied TA is always best but OC is also good" She had a small smile on her face and offered me a Summer Internship and PPI ( In case if i cannot come for summers) and gave tips of HR manager and his first job and ofcourse a small bouquet of flowers with a certificate of Internship Completion and also the stipend.
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| The HR Team Of PepsiCo India |
Besides the Internship had the awesome Delhi food specially the "Chola Batura" which was almost my food for more than 26 days in 45 day stay, watched numerous movies atleast 2 in a week, Spectacular Delhi People, Specially the hot --- real hot girls of Delhi .. I should mention here one interesting fact ... If the average .. sorry below average girls in the class pose with attitude then wat should these girls do. But these girls were sweet by heart. Had few friends and 15 days of having the mighty " Royal Enfield" made me roam Gurgaon like a Prince. Before winding up couldnt resist to mention this .. The so called Placecom that is formed by seniors excelled in its inefficiency despite of the efforts of few of them( One being my room mate - Hard working dead cell) they could turn out with zero Summer Internships by the time i returned back to campus from my Winter Internship on Jan 15, 2012. Thats it for now folks . Hope i haven't Bored.
Sneak Peak : Next time its all about the Politics/ Dirty games/Marriageable Ages and my shift of committees from Media PR to Placecom ... Stay tuned... !!!!
