Plants have intrigued people for thousands of years. They provide aesthetic beauty as well as materials for our basic needs. Moreover, the application of plant sciences improves the yield and supply of medicines, foods, fibres, building materials and other plant products.

What’s this career about?

Botany can be a rewarding career option in India for those who have a passion for plants, the environment, and research. Botanists study all aspects of plant life, including their structure, growth, genetics, and interactions with the environment.

They could be: identifying, recording, monitoring or breeding a plant species or searching for a new species, studying plant populations at a number of sites across different locations, to investigate the effects of pollution, drought or agricultural pests, studying plant cells, structure and function, extracting any useful chemicals, working in conservation, protecting plant life in a local area, promoting public awareness through activities or managing plant collections at a botanic garden, using specialist laboratory equipment and techniques such as electron microscopes, digital imaging analysis and satellite imaging, exploring the use of plants in medicine; for example, finding out if a plant has anti-bacterial or anti-oxidant properties, studying plant evolution or genetics, collecting and analysing data, writing reports and making recommendations based on the results of experiments or observations.

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Preparing for a career as a makeup artist requires a combination of technical knowledge, hands-on experience, and interpersonal skills. The scope is vast, and with dedication and continuous learning, you can turn your passion for makeup into a thriving and rewarding career.

What’s this career about?

Makeup artists are no longer people who run a beauty parlour. Nowadays, the makeup industry is a major industry. There are several different types of makeup artists, each with their own specialties and areas of expertise. Here are some of the most common types of makeup artists:

Makeup artists in the beauty and cosmetic industry work with brands, cosmetic companies and beauty salons to provide makeup services and promote products.
Bridal makeup artists focus on creating beautiful and long-lasting looks for brides, and members of the bridal party.

Fashion makeup artists specialize in creating makeup looks for fashion shows, runway presentations, and editorial photoshoots. These artists may also be involved in product development, testing and advising on trends. This career option requires a strong understanding of products, techniques and the ability to connect with customers. They may work as brand ambassadors, conducting makeup demonstrations, providing education and training and creating makeup looks to showcase the brand’s products.

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A career in finance is exciting and rewarding, and usually, very lucrative. If you have a head for numbers and a passion for financial planning, the financial sector might be the perfect fit for you.

What’s this career about?

Finance is all about managing money. It is a vast field with many different job opportunities. Here are some of the most common:

Financial Analysts provide guidance to businesses and individuals making investment decisions; they often assess the performance of stock market investments, real estate, bonds, and other investments.

Investment Analysts assess and recommend investment decisions, often for a fund or investment company.

Commercial Bankers work for commercial banks and provide financial services (e.g, loans, lines of credit, etc.) to businesses.

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) prepare tax returns and advise individuals and businesses on tax planning, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations.
Personal Finance Advisors help individuals with budgeting, saving, investing, and other financial goals.

These jobs only scratch the surface of the finance sector. There are many other options for those who love working with numbers and want to pursue a lucrative career.

Finance jobs can be quite stressful. You are responsible for making critical decisions that could have a major impact on your company’s bottom line. That kind of pressure can be tough to handle day in and day out.

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Businesses, governments and individuals are all vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Cyber security aims to help them by protecting their systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks.

What’s this career about?

Individuals working in the field of cyber security are trained not only on how to control cyber-attacks, but also on how to put precautions to prevent an attack in the first place and retaliate against a cyber threat. The careers in cyber security can be diverse. Some of the common ones are:

Analysts typically view and manipulate data to achieve an end result. They help in planning, implementing and upgrading security measures and controls. They should be good with numbers, reports, or spreadsheets.

Engineers configure, set up, evaluate, and help put plans in place through software and hardware.

Architects play a vital role in designing the network and computer security architecture for various companies. In most cases, they work with the engineers to achieve that goal.

Developers typically develop algorithms, ciphers and security systems to hide sensitive information. They are also code-maker as well as code-breaker professionals.

Managers are responsible for maintaining the security protocols across the organization. They often review existing security policies as well as create the policies based on new threats. They also perform regular checks on all servers, switches, routers as well as other connected devices to provide security.

These responsibilities may vary widely from company to company. As a cybersecurity expert, you must have integrity and dependability, and should safeguard the interests of the company you are working with.

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Do you like watching cooking shows in your spare time? Are you passionate about food? Is cooking your favourite past-time? Then working within the culinary arts industry should be your ultimate goal.

What’s this career about?

The field of culinary arts basically deals with the science and art of cooking. The job of a culinary arts professional is to balance the aesthetics with the nutrition — basically to make food look good so that it appeals to our senses, and to also ensure that its food value is not compromised. S\he has the skill to create fusions between different types of cuisines or to be creative and even come up with a unique dish.

A culinarian working in restaurants is commonly known as a chef. A chef is an artist. In a restaurant setting, the Executive or Head Chef is in charge of the kitchen; their duties include kitchen staff training and oversight, food ordering and menu planning, and supervision of meal preparation. The Sous Chef is next in command. They also have supervisory roles in the kitchen, but they typically play larger roles in daily food preparation than chefs.

Apart from the Head Chef, you can also become a Personal Chef, Pastry Chef, Baker, Catering Specialist or Dessert Specialist. Depending on the chef job you are taking on, you could be working before dawn or not even starting your shift until the evening.

Research Chefs create recipes based on consumer feedback, modify existing recipes or even creating new recipes through experimentation. Their duties include testing new products for flavour and nutritional content, monitoring ingredients for quality and nutrition or finding substitutes for additives that could be unhealthy or harmful.

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If you’re an expert in your field and are good at expressing yourself through your writing, vlogging or photography, becoming a content creator could be an interesting option. Creating content is one of the key jobs to succeed in the digital marketing industry.

What’s this career about?

A content creator creates educational or entertaining pieces of content. These could be texts, videos, audio files, images or other types of graphics like infographics.

Becoming a content creator can be challenging in the beginning, but it is overall fun and rewarding if you are creative. Writing and creative thinking lie at the core of being a content writer and creator. Still, content creation isn’t just about crafting words. It can be everything from managing social media to designing brochures to creating videos.

Content creators may be known by different names:

Influencers on social media have knowledge and expertise on a specific topic. They put up regular posts about that topic on their preferred social media channels and generate large followings of enthusiastic, engaged people who pay close attention to their views.

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Digital Marketing is a modern way of promoting brands, products and services using all forms of digital channels such as websites, email, social media, mobile apps, etc.

What’s this career about?

Digital marketing is another name for online marketing. These days every business and company utilizes digital marketing strategies as people use their mobile phones almost all day, making it easier to reach potential customers.

There are different types of digital marketing some of which are:

SEO Marketing or search engine optimization, is one of the most widespread and in-demand skills in the digital marketing world. In essence, SEO marketing is all about designing and creating content to rank highly in search engines when consumers ask brand-relevant queries and industry-applicable searches.

Social Media Marketing is a fast-growing vertical within digital marketing and can serve as a powerful tool in a business’ advertising arsenal. In this specialty, you will develop content and advertising strategies that promote customer interest and engagement on a variety of social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

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Netflix uses viewership data to give better movie recommendations. Facebook uses past interactions to send more targeted ads to users. Google Maps estimates your ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) based on huge amounts of data accumulated from other people using the app on the same route.

These are all examples of data science being put to use to gain a deeper level of understanding. In this way, data scientists are like detectives, finding patterns out of data to help businesses make smarter decisions.

What’s this career about?

Data scientists are the game changers for any organization. They simplify big data through coding and algorithms and turn it into a problem-solving solution for the business.

A data scientist’s work typically involves making sense of messy, unstructured data, collected from sources such as smart devices, surveys, social media feeds and emails.

Their work includes framing relevant questions which need to be answered, and collecting huge amounts of data available on the internet. The importance of gathering and collecting data is crucial as it enables organisations to determine and thus influence trends in a particular industry.

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The skin is the largest and most important sensory organ of our body. We need to take utmost care of it. But there are times, when due to various reasons, our care is not enough and we need to go to a specialist to ensure it heals and comes back to its natural self.

What’s this career about?

Dermatology is a branch of medicine dealing with skin, hair and nail diseases. It covers both medical and surgical aspects. It can be sub-divided into Core Dermatology (deals with skin diseases), Cosmetology (treatment of skin appearance), Trichology (study of hair disorders) and Dermato-surgery (practice of skin surgeries).

As “skin doctors”, dermatologists are physicians who diagnose and treat diseases of the skin. Their job responsibility includes examining the patients, carrying out grafts, smears of the affected skin and perform laser treatments on the affected areas. Some of the more common skin diseases include: skin cancer, warts, fungal infections, psoriasis, hair loss or excessive hair growth. Apart from the skin, a dermatologist is also concerned with treating hair, scalp and nail diseases.

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Being fluent in at least two languages, an interpreter listens to a speaker in one language and repeats what has been said, for someone else, in a second language.

What’s this career about?

Interpreters work with live speech. They usually work either as guides and escorts or as conference or court interpreters. Often, they also use their knowledge of cultural backgrounds to read and interpret the meaning of gestures and other non-verbal cues such as body language in order to convey the full intended meaning of the communication.

Foreign Language Interpreters usually specialize in a particular language and may also specialize in a particular subject area, such as the legal, medical, technical or welfare fields. They may interpret consecutively, waiting for the speaker to pause to translate what has been said, or simultaneously, in which case they translate continuously while the speaker is talking.

The latter is a more difficult type of interpreting, but it is required of court and international conference interpreters. It requires such an intuitive knowledge of the source language and the subject matter that the interpreter must be able to anticipate what the speaker will say as well as have the ability to talk and listen at the same time.

Court Interpreters interpret simultaneously except when the non-English speaking person is on the stand testifying, in which case they interpret consecutively.

Sign language Interpreters provide translation between spoken and sign language communication. The job of sign language Interpreters is very similar to the job of foreign language Interpreters. In sign language interpreting, however, the hands rather than a foreign language are used to communicate. Sign language Interpreters translate a speaker’s words into sign language, using their hands, fingers, and facial expressions. They also repeat the deaf person’s signed response to the speaker.

Interpreters must be proficient in both the languages. In addition, they should be well-versed with the culture of that country. Keeping up to date with current developments in English, the foreign language and specialist terminology is also important. They must have a high degree of fluency in the languages they translate and an understanding of the subject matter. In addition they should have excellent research and public speaking skills.

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