1) Fashion/ Footwear designing: From dress designing to interior designing, from shoe designing to jeweler designing, there are many designing courses you can pursue. However, you need to be creative and have an aptitude to do well in this field. While institutes like NIFT, Pearl are famous for dress designing, institutes like Footwear Design and Development Institute in Noida impart training in footwear designing. There are many career opportunities and starting salaries range from Rs 25000 to 40,000 per month.
2) Medical lab technology: You will be a part of the booming healthcare industry. As a medical laboratory technologist, your core responsibilities are- methodical understanding of high-tech instrumentation, specimen and tissue analysis and interpretation of results. You will be able to work in hospitals, clinical laboratories, ambulatory healthcare services, research, forensic, pharmaceutical and industrial laboratories. You will use specialised tools and techniques to help doctors diagnose, treat and prevent diseases. While selecting the institution to pursue a course in MLT, look for a place where the instructors are certified medical lab technologists themselves.
3) Travel and Tourism: Love to travel the world? This is the profession for you. With the hospitality sector getting a boost from several sporting events held in our country, tourism sector has been booming like never before. Added diplomas like foreign language and ticketing can help you in your career. Starting salaries range from Rs 6,000- Rs 9,000.
4) Office management and secretarial practice: This diploma will open doors to job profiles such as executive assistant, personal secretary, administrative officer/ assistant. From book-keeping and accountancy to company law and banking services, from enhancing your communication skills to effective documentation, this diploma prepares you well for a career in corporate world. The demand for qualified office managers, secretaries, customer care representatives has grown in MNC, public sector companies, hotels etc.
5) Animation: One of the highly demanded jobs of the 21st century, animation, can be defined as the art of breathing life to a character or an object. To do well in this field you need to be very creative and have great sketching skills. A course in animation helps. Arena Multimedia offers diploma courses in animation after 10+2 including one that is exclusively focused on animation film-making. There are many institutes offering courses in animation, 3D animation, digital arts, etc. India has more than 300 animation studios, which employ over 15,000 animation professionals. The gaming industry is one of the top employers and they also pay quite well. Though entertainment through film and television is the main area of application in this profession, animation is also needed in other areas such as business, sales, publishing, media, engineering, education and advertising.
