My AIESEC Internship in Alesco Business School, Indore, M.P., India 12 May 2010 - 12 August 2010 by Mikola Andrejeu /Belarus/

2. Overview
Internship Intern
 Dates May 12,2010 - August 12,2010
 Location Indore, INDIA
 Organization Alesco Business School
 Position Faculty/Lecturer
 Area(s) of Work Business Administration,
Finance, Marketing, Other Studies, Human
Resource
 Issue(s) of Focus Corporate
Responsibility, Education, Entrepreneurship
 Host Local Committee AIESEC INDORE
 Name Mikalai Andreyeu
 Date of Birth 22.08.1980
 Country Belarus
 Nationality Russian
 Profile www.linkedin.com/in/mik0la
 Experience Business Administration,
Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource,
NGO Activism, Journalism, Web Projects, etc.
 Local Committee AIESEC KYIV, UKRAINE

3. Hello
On the 12th
of May 2010 I’ve landed in India. Now, after spending some
time in Indore and having my traineeship completed, I’m filing my report.
Generally speaking, it has been quite an experience, indeed!
AIESEC Internship in India IS a life-changing exercise, if you ask me.
Give me some free time, some blank paper and a pack of pencils – and
you will get a fascinating book on India, its education, business style;
you will get a vivid still-life picture plus philosophical reflection.
It is a mid-term feedback because I’ve stayed in India and currently
working as a Spoken English & Personality Development Trainer in
Indore. So, India is my present location and, one might say, my state of
mind.

4. First of all
I would like to thank AIESEC Ukraine team
for information and support provided on-line.
Up till now Belarus has no AIESEC presence,
therefore everything’s happened with the
responsiveness and assistance of:
• Liubov Shlapai
• Svitlana Kohut
• Daria Kohut

5. Special thanx:
 My mother Mariya Andreyeva /Belarus/
 Domanscy family /Poland/
 Rose Griffin /England-Russia/
 Oxygen Web Studio /Belarus/

6. Thankfully
I’ve made friends and experienced famous Indian
Hospitality from the very first night of staying in Indore.
I want to thank all the people who made it happen so
nicely. First of all:
Anjali Patel
Ishpal Chhabra
Jayesh Sood
Venkat P.v.
Eshant Jain
& other
AIESECers of Indore.
Vijay Singh
& UDAY Hostel team
Chandra Singh
Rakesh Poonia
Anurag Mishra
Akshay Panwar
& DemonTechnoSoft team
Vijendra Singh
& IndiaInfoLine team
Col.S.C.Bhutt,
all students & faculties of
Alesco Business School
& its Marketing Dept,
Mohit Kurana & Incisive HRT;
Ugo Ferrero,
Ida Røisgård Pettersen
& other foreign interns
for a good company.

7. My in-coming
fairy
Anjali Patel
 AIESEC Indore
Vice-President,
Educational Sector.
 Dedicated professional.
 Nice lady.
 I was her first intern.

8. SpecialThanx forWarmWelcome
AIESEC Indore

9. YES,
We Had Fun

10. Accommodation

11. Hostel Team
Vijay Singh,
Hostel Owner
Ugo Ferrero,
Italian Mafia
Banti Bana.
Just Banti.

12. Educational Internship in

13. Job Responsibilities:
 Teaching Project Management, III Sem.
 Teaching Russian Language, II + III Sem.
 Tutorials of Multimedia to an IT specialized
student
 Presentations and Business Games
 Occasional mock interviews
 Just keeping myself in the campus/office
and …

14. MARKETING
MARKETING
MARKETING

15. Including:
 Meetings and marketing speeches with
potential students and their parents
 ‘Educational Fair’ three-days exhibition
 A hoarding and newspaper ads using my
name and picture

16. How to Become a Global Leader in Just 7 days
Actually, I’ve never
thought of myself as of
a global leader in
Management
Education.
Many times I’ve
been thinking that it
is rather a Marketing
Internship rather
then an Educational
one.
But in Indore
Education is
Business.

17. How to Become a Celebrity in Just 2 Weeks

18. What I disliked about my
name and picture usage for
advertisement:
 This activity is supposed to be paid for.
 I had never been neither asked nor informed
about my appearance in media.
 Both my name & surname were misspelled.
 The information displayed was false.

19. Front View
is of Strategic Importance

20. Campus &
Office
The light side
of the internship
was about the
positive attitude
of most students
& faculties of the
School, as well
as of the
Marketing Dept.
specialists.

21. Other pleasant detail:
 Accommodation was provided on my choice
 A mobile phone was provided
 Regular safe food was provided
 Transportation was provided, sometimes V.I.P.
 Relative curriculum freedom
 Special attention by staff
… please remind me if I have forgotten something

22. Negative office admin
detail:
 Complete failure in planning: all activities are
performed on the spot
 Rapid personnel changing policy
 Preference to quantity rather then quality of
employees
 Problem of delegating tasks and caste style
seniors-juniors relationships
 Poor organizational skills of office staff
 Impossibility to reach an executive via e-mail and
mobile phone

23. Negative campus admin
detail:
 Need to stay in the campus for the whole day
 Against the agreement:
 no fixed working place was provided
 no fixed computer system was provided
 Constant electricity and Internet failures
 Lack of fans/ACs in the heat peak of the year
 No shower: impossible to use the gym

24. Negative curriculum detail:
 The internship started in the end of semester
 No prior information on cirriculum
 Russian was a part of Soft Skills (PGP), not a
subject
 No tests after the courses
 Full academic freedom in Project Management
 No attention to an IT specialized student

25. Positive campus detail:
 Library updated in July 2010
 Interest of some students
 Friendliness of most faculties
 Academic freedom
 Free tea provided 3 times a day
 Garden

26. Now about India & Indore
Enough about the internship

27. Indian Rupees
USD 1 = Rs. 46

28. This is just for tea, OK!

29. by the way,
for tea/coffee
in India they
use milk
instead of
water
!

30. Pollution
There is nothing
religious in this
piece of fabric
Anjali is wearing.
It just protects
skin from dust on
the street.

31. Religion
Yes,
there were struggles in
the past. Not in the
future, I hope.
I am especially
interested in Sikhism
tradition, if you ask me.
To understand it better,
one needs a visit to
Amritsar.

32. Indian
transport

33. They DO ride bikes.

34. And sometimes bikes are
out of order…

35. I also tried riding.

36. Shopping does good.

37. Going Out Also

38. Dhaba
is a restaurant out-of-town.
Not really a secure place.
Mainly for truck drivers.
Very democratic atmosphere.

39. This is how they make
chapattis

40. and this is how they eat it

41. Night Life

42. Night Life is Forbidden,
OK!

43. This is evening, OK!

44.  Pubs
 Clubs
 Restaurants
 etc.
close at 12
(apprx.)

45. It is always a pleasure to
meet a Russian speaker:
one will not forget his
mother tongue!

46. Otherwise
how can you say that you have been to India?
Indian Wedding is an event you MUST visit

47. Wedding
preparatory
traditions
are
sophisticate
d

48. Mehandi
is an art of
body drawing.

50. You will meet lots of authentic people…

51. … and have fun!

52. Indian Hospitality …

53. Indian Hospitals
and …

54. Be Aware of
What You Eat & Drink, OK!

55. or else …

56. Anyway,
your friends
are always near!

57. They are on duty.

58. Festivals,
of course!
Shamefully,
I hardly remember the
names of Indian
festivals, let alone Gods.
There are lots of
occasions to sing and
dance, really.
For instance,
this is Shree Ganesha’s
Birthday.

59. India is waiting for you!

60. Questions?
andrejeu@gmail.com +919993392192

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