Go back to your mentor/guide for the project - ask relevant questions.

Speak to your peers who might be doing similar projects.

Speak to your alumni who are working in the same area.

It makes sense to even go back to the faculty at the institute to seek guidance on the subject.

If you have done your summer training in the field of marketing, can you actually get a job in finance?

Well, summer training is just a two-month stop-over in your career. Therefore, saying that if you have done your summer training in one specialisation area, you can't look out for job in other specialisation domains, is completely wrong. One can land up with a marketing project even if one is more interested in finance depending on opportunities available on campus, dearth of quality projects in your chosen area of specialisation. There could be many reasons for this, and at the end of the day, it is only a two-month project before the start of your career. However, you should be prepared with a convincing answer on the reason for switch from one area to another. The reasons could vary from interest to opportunity available to realisation. Whatever you say, be sure and convincing.

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* Saurabh Kumar is MBA from Fore School of Management, New Delhi, and has experience in Sales & Marketing with Godfery Phillips India Ltd. & UB Group, and is currently working with ICICI Bank. His summer training report on rural distribution for HLL was published in Business Today, Business World and other business publications.