Business Development & Community Outreach Internship

You would represent CheckIN in residential communities, meeting the people who make decisions for them and generating leads from those meetings.

• Reaching and visiting: find gated communities, residential societies and RWAs, then go and meet their heads, secretaries, RWA members and facility managers.
• Explaining the product: introduce CheckIN, run basic demos, answer first questions and speak to the problems communities have with old-style visitor registers.
• Leads and records: build a pipeline of society leads, follow up with interested prospects, bring the team in for later discussions, pass on the feedback you gather, and log your visits, conversations and follow-ups.

Experience in sales, marketing, outreach or community engagement would count in your favour, though the post does not make it compulsory. The post asks for:

• Strong communication and people skills, and ease in approaching strangers, including senior community representatives.
• A real interest in business development, sales, marketing, networking or building relationships.
• Readiness to travel to residential societies close by for on-ground visits.
• Self-motivation, initiative, and good organisation and follow-up habits.

The post is clear that this is not a desk-bound internship.

• Practise a short, clear introduction of a product in under a minute, then rehearse answering simple questions about it.
• It helps to think about how a visitor register at a residential gate works and what could go wrong with it, so you can talk about the problem before the product.
• Keep a simple tracker habit, such as a sheet with names, dates, notes and next follow-up, since record-keeping is part of the work.
• Be ready with examples from college or volunteering where you spoke to strangers or followed up on something until it was done.