First week with Citi 200 years, done!

My first week of summer internship at Citibank was over before I had time to worry that if I am ready to go back to work after being on holiday for about two months. My first week started in New York with other 36 MBA students from some of the top business schools around the country, including Wharton, Columbia, Haas and Cornell to name a few. Everyone was so excited to get to know each other on the first day and was so happy to be part of the Citi Consumer Banking Summer Associate Program for 2012. The Bank organized some of the senior leaders from different business functions to meet and talk to us about what they do on a daily basis, the challenges they face and the opportunities ahead. With almost no time to rest for jet legs and adjust for time differences, I found the information I got in the first two days was overwhelming. However, the excitement about my summer project with CitiMortgage and the great new friends that I made have really kept me going through the week.

The last day of the week was my first day to report to CitiMortgage Ann Arbor office. During a quick catch up with my manager over a cup of coffee, he wanted me to take up a major role in facilitating the expansion of an operation center in Danville, IL. The project includes hiring new stuff and analyzing calls from a huge data base for this busy inbound call center for CitiMortgage’s super streamline business approaches. The project is challenging in its complex nature, but I am really excited about it and the opportunity to pull it off. When I was writing this blog, I am working from this office about 400 miles away from Ann Arbor and will be here for the rest of the week.

There will be lots of hard work ahead of me this summer. However, there also will be lots of activities and events that I will enjoy during weekends and time offs. I am sure that it will be a great summer.