M ainstream is passe. At least, that’s what a lot of this generation firmly believes. But when you get down to it, what are the finer points of each career choice that you have in front of you? Try our easy reckoner and it may help you make that decision simpler!
Forensic Sciences
This involves using scientific methods to examine and analyse evidence from crime scenes to help with the investigation
Food Chemistry
For those who are really passionate about food and want to integrate it with science, it is a brilliant option
Museology
Until the recent past, this was more relevant in the West, but is now coming up at a very fast pace in India as lots of heritage sites are being identified and many locations are being earmarked as ‘heritage locations’
Hospitality
While traditionally you just had careers like Hotel Management, today you have an option of Culinary Arts and within that you can specialise in different fields like wine-tasting or tea-tasting. There are many programmes and courses for culinary arts within India itself.
Spa management
With the kind of luxury hotel chains coming up, spa management has come up as a very talked-about field
Ayurveda
In medicine, the traditional medical careers already exist. Now, specialisation in the field of Ayurveda is an option. Thus is again related to the fast-growing hospitality industry. With this, people can be in the medicine domain without actually doing a 5-year MBBS followed by a Master’s degree
Social Sciences and Psychology
As soon as you do a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Psychology, you can get into multiple roles — counsellor, coaching, organisation development etc. CBSE requires every school to have a counsellor but that isn’t possible as there aren’t enough counsellors
UI/UX Design
On the technical side, this field has immense scope and every organisation need to look at what their app or website looks like. Students graduating from IIT-Guwahati after doing the UI/UX Design course are in hot demand
Ethical hacking
The threat of hacks for firms is very imminent. So a lot of organisations are looking at ethical hackers to prevent such hacks