A sparkling career in jewellery design

A sparkling career in the jewellery designing can bring you in the limelight!

Do you love jewellery? Ever tried designing your own ornaments and accessories? What if you could design the way you like and set the trends for others to follow? You can do this with a career in jewellery design.

Jewellery is one of the basic ingredients of the fashion industry and it also proffers a dazzling career to freshers as well as professionals. Jewellery includes rings, bracelets, necklaces and other countless ornaments that enhances the beauty of a woman.

Jewellery designing is an exciting career and a creative art which combines the conceptualization and manufacturing of jewellery. For long, the sector was dominated by gold but with the entry of big players like Tanishq, Swarovski, DeBeers, D'damas, the thrust is shifting from gold to other precious stones like diamonds, which brings along the need for an organized jewellery industry.

Previously, jewellery design was considered as a leisure pursuit but the increased growth of the sector has led people to realize the potential of jewellery design as a career.

With the increased scope of jewellery designing courses, Noida has become a hub for the finest jewellery design institutes.

Sunaina Saxena, PR & communication head of Jewellery Design & Technology Institute (JDTI), Noida, told ET that in the last few years, jewellery designing has become a much talked about career in the industry. The demand for skilled jewellery professionals is on a high these days.

With the increased number of jewellery designing institutes is Noida; the city has become a big catchment area to attract talent. As per news reports, there is an immense increase in the number of students opting for jewellery designing courses in the city. The demand is high for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Jewellery Design & Technology Institute (JDTI) and IMS-DIA are known to be the finest jewellery designing institutes in Noida. The previous one proffers a range of courses from one month Jewel CAD course to 2 year diploma programme in Jewellery Design and Technology and the cost of such courses ranges from Rs 17,500 to Rs 2,00,000. To get through such jewellery designing courses, one must have passed 10+2.

IMS-DIA offers a degree programme of 3.5 years duration and a 2-year diploma in Jewellery Design where 6 months is the common foundation programme.

Saxena added that now the remuneration has also increased in the industry and interns are also paid at the time of internship and qualified fresher gets an average starting pay package of Rs 25,000 per month. Read more

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