My Gateway to Gateway
It all started in the month of December when a question swept my mind “How will I get
my summer internship project and in which company?”. That was the moment when I
fastened my seat belts and started sending out resumes to companies, contacted friends,
family and old colleagues, but none of them lead to a positive confirmation. As a student
of lean operations I was looking at three sectors for my SIP the first being manufacturing
followed by hotels and retail. Since none of the references worked I decided to call the
companies directly and ask for the internship opportunities and this effort paid off when I
was able to crack the interview at The GATEWAY hotel Mangalore, part of Taj group of
hotels.
My project at the Gateway hotel concentrated on two objectives first being analysis of
food wastage and crockery breakages under the finance department which was working to
bring down the hotels operations cost and second was to understand the working of the
materials department.
This internship has been a great learning experience in many ways, be it the way you put
across your ideas and convince our mentors, the way you network with staff or the way
you get the data required for your project, this internship has thought me all of it not to