MY EXPERIENCE @ ApnaCircle InfoTech ltd.

There comes a moment in life when you want to run hard to snatch your portion of life from this world, your head bursts with ideas, dreams fill with hopes and mind says, ”wish I could get a chance”, I was going through that phase. Being a student of MBA ,The end of second semester and the upcoming rainy season was calling for a great vacation but As a part of Galgotia's University coarse curriculum we were supposed to undergo a 45 days Internship program, so I was in a fix, whether it will be fun or Same like boring theoretical classes. Although The profile i got in ApnaCircle InfoTech ltd a Professional networking site in India{With the second largest User base after LinkedIn in India} was just for me .It was founded by Mr Yogesh Bansal in the year 2006,and after seeing its enormous potential and penetration rate in India Internet Industry Viadeo-a French Professional and business networking company acquired it in 2009 making it a networking channel of 45 million users across the globe. I got the opportunity to work with them from Campus only although went to their office at Noida ,Uttar Pradesh, for Interview just the very next day my last paper of second term ended with an idle brain and more idle mind{he, he}.After the rigorous interview process i found myself positive and became more confident when they briefed my responsibilities, It was a mixture of Brand management, Social media marketing, Public relation and Customer relationship management with a hint of Digital marketing and cold calling. I immediately got motivated and promised them that my performance would surely add value to their organization. Internship started from the next day it was 9 hours job with both back office and field work. The work culture out there was really cool and the exotic fruit juices in the Office canteen were even cooler. Although it was unpaid, they provided all the food and transportation costs and other necessary amenities during the period. We were two from our college and both had to come almost 30 km every day to join office, although never felt exhausted or irritated to shut up the Alarm clock in the mornings during the weekdays as work was so much fun out there, with a mindful of ideas and concepts that i have learnt during my MBA program just some encouragement and guidance was needed, which was readily available by my reporting manager Ms. Ruchi mahna Chawdhury. During the internship we formulated strategic and promotional business development plans and executed each of them carefully as a team of three interns. Some of them were like Webpage design, Customer feedback, Content writing, Event management, Facebook marketing,B2B sales calling, Recruiters analysis, Market research, customer handling, Competitive analysis with LinkedIn India etc. We also prepared a detailed project report about our findings as well as the present scenario of Social Media Marketing in India. We made loads of friends out there, everyone used to be so frankly and friendly that sometimes we played role-plays with senior office collogues for Ad making and even chatted for long hours after office. My biggest achievement during this period was introduction of Brand Ambassador Event across PAN India for ApnaCircle. It’s still on air with 800 participants and it was a real success for the company as it brought more new users as well as helped to increase the visibility of the Brand and popularity also. We also visited several colleges and technical institutes across Delhi-NCR to promote our company and for listing and other purpose. When i started first few days i used to count days that how many days are remaining but as the days passed i got into it so inside of my job that i forgot my friends and family for a while and my Favourite Angry bird game also, I found myself in a very systematic and well organized lifestyle during this period. All my efforts were appreciated and encouraged by ApnaCircle team. Impressed by the happy environment and motivated by the strong sense of possibility I still find myself proud

whenever i remember that Honorable CEO of Apnacircle.com sat with me and appreciated my effort. I didn’t miss a single day during my 45 days Internship without any health hazards. On the last day a cute little surprise was on the card when they asked me ”When can you sit where you are siting now Permanently”?, and I said “whenever you say ”.