{"id":3776,"date":"2012-12-18T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2012-12-28T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:58:47","slug":"shadab-first-day-at-internshala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/shadab-first-day-at-internshala\/","title":{"rendered":"My first day at Internshala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ShadabI recently graduated from NIT Jamshedpur with two job offers in hand. Job offer- this reminds me of brutal GPL sessions (come on, we all know what GPL stands for, and if you\u2019re really na\u00efve, I\u2019m sorry I am not going to strip it for you). You see\u00a0the most interesting part is I ditched one of the offers, and the second offer- they just showed me the mirror. God! It was really a harsh experience for me to get ditched. But what the heck, I am smart enough to get a job.<\/p>\n

I set foot for\u00a0Bangalore thinking that there\u00a0would lot of opportunities in the \u2018Silicon Valley of India\u2019 for an Electronics graduated that too, from a branded<\/i> college. But the grass on the other side is not always green. One morning, I stumbled on to Internshala\u2019s advertisement on the \u2018entrepreneurship internship\u2019. I gave it a shot and the fortune favored me.<\/p>\n

Preoccupied with plethora of thoughts- should I have gone for the job I was offered or should I have gone for the IES etc., I arrived at Internshala\u2019s office in Gurgaon. Oh! Nobody\u2019s here- I was a little early. The journey of the day begins, after waiting for 15 minutes at the reception, some humble guy walks in- just for the record, it wasn\u2019t Sarvesh. I introduced myself to him, \u201cHey, I am Shadab and I\u2019ll be working with Sarvesh at Internshala.\u201d The techie (I presumed from his look) was really very welcoming. Also, he ushered me to Internshala\u2019s office- thanks to him. Here comes Sarvesh- apologizing for being late- damn! I\u2019ll have to look for convincing excuses lest I get late.<\/p>\n

The environment around the office, it\u2019s a tiny lovely business centre where four new start ups are brewing, I found it really conducive- surrounded by intellectual youngsters endeavoring to materialize their visions. I didn\u2019t know how to react when Sarvesh told me that there were only two people working in office, I being the 2nd<\/sup> one. I felt both irony and amusement. I had a hunch that it would be boring, but I must confess that my intuition was very wrong. The very first thing we did was we thoroughly discussed the very eccentric idea-Internshala. As I imbibed the idea I got super excited; I realized that it has enough momentum to cause a paradigm shift in the Indian employers\u2019 recruitment attitude.<\/p>\n

Although I do admit that if I went for a big corporate job there would have been a fancy party at some fancy hotel, but I would not have enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the maggy and tea at Internshala office. I sincerely hope that this experience would be like a \u2018relic\u2019 which I will relish throughout my life.<\/p>\n