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All the candidates who apply to the Fashion Communication program at NIFT are curious as to what jobs it will land them. Here is the article that tells you whats out there for you. I am about to complete my fourth year at NIFT.

There are some ready-made jobs and there are jobs that you will have to create for yourself. You study so many things in FC that you know a little of everything when you leave. The internships and elective courses at FC do push you towards you interests but its still a sea. It is your job to decide what exactly you want to do exactly and where you wish to specialize.

A big choice to make at the end of the course is whether you want to go right into fashion or not. For some, its not a tough call.

Here is what my class of 35 people are doing.

1 Advertising - Copywriters and Art
FC really helps you towards this career.

2 Fashion journalists for Elle, Marie Claire, Femina

3 Fashion Photographers for magazines, newspapers, designers

4 Fashion stylists at Elle, Marie Claire, Femina, F&A

5 Graphic designers at various companies liek K factor, Whitelight

6 Web designers - Without the knowledge of HTML. Their strong point is design.

7 Visual Merchandisers for brands like Benetton, Madura.

This is what you learn in FC -
Fashion Photography
Marketing, Retail Management
Branding and Corporate Identity
Journalism
Graphics
Visual Merchandising
Styling - Putting together the look of a model for lets say, a photo-shoot
Fashion forecasting
Studying fashion trends
Visual Merchandising
Graphics
Advertising
Computers - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Pagemaker, Dreamweaver, Flash, Corel, AutoCAD, 3DMax which means you can create graphics, develop webpages, edit videos, do animation and do desktop publishing. What I have to think of now is about personal growth possible in the few streams I have narrowed it down to. But you know what, all the fundas dont work after a while. Its good to get in only if its passion that keeps you driving. Having made all the decisions, you have to be happy selecting garments for a model to wear for the photo-shoot, isn’t it?

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