Megha Agarawal Career Expert

Megha Agarawal

Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades

Megha Agarawal

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About Megha Agarawal

I am a designer by profession and an artist by heart. I believe in design as a problem solving process and am interested in solving social problems through system thinking. My professional experience lies in Design Research and core Visual Communication Design: Graphic, web-design, film & video communication, design training to artisans and creative workshops with children. Specialties: Design Thinking and Management, Visual narratives, Motion Pictures and Video Communication, Interaction design, Experience Design, Interdisciplinary design, Design Research and Designing for Children

Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, is a career counsellor based at Ahmedabad, Gujarat area. View all career counsellors from Ahmedabad

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Hello Shelly! Its great blessing to have so many talents and more importantly to recognize them. While knowing about these creative bent, one needs to know the reason for you to choose Btech and what stopped you from pursuing other courses like [Fashion design][1] as you have mentioned. Which year of Btech are you in? Probably we can figure out the best options for you under the given circumstances once we know your priorities and present (social?) pressures. [Is Anchor your Ideal Career? Take Ideal Career Test to know -->Click Here][2] =====================================================

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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You can choose to go to for a Graphic design or visual communication course from a reputed institute like NID or IIT Guwhati for undergraduate level. Backing your profile with a good college degree is very important in design market. There is no formal coaching required to get into these schools however there are many of these available. You must prepare a good portfolio for interview and do some test preparation by looking at the sample paper's on their websites. Portfolio becomes very important once you clear the 1st level written test. Portfolio is to be shown during the personal interview.

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Hi Vansh!Great to see that you are thinking about subject option from perspective of your future goal since beginning! To answer your question I need to know which profile you want to enter in game design. Do you want to conceptualize gaming stories? Make game characters, visuals? Animate the characters? Write flash and other scripts to run the game? Engineer the softwares to support the game? All these functioned by different individuals in gaming industry coming from different academic background. Which function do you want to play? Accordingly I can suggest the subject that should be chosen

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Hi Shekhar!Its good decision to upgrade your skills and move up in career, probably a decision that you should have taken much before on your career path. But better late than never. I would suggest that with a 7 yrs of experience, you must leverage your experience to move up the leader to be a project leader, for which you dont just need to keep learning new softwares but probably take up some courses like HCI (Human computer interaction design) courses and design/heuristic analysis courses, which will immediately place you one step above your present profile.Such short term courses are offer

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Everything is best and everything has become competitive.. so the key is to find your field of interest and we can help you find best route to achieve success in that!All the best!

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Please give me more specific details - college name, no. of years of course, affiliation etc of your Graduation college to be able to answer this question.

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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The earning could be anything between 1 lakh to 15 lakh per year in this field depending on your qualification and expertise. For being able to through institute names, we will need more specific question from your side.

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Check for HCI courses offered by IDC IIT Bombay by Prof. Aniruddha Joshi and courses offered my Human factors and IDEO.

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Hello Mr. Sudhir,Both painting and animation has good opportunities in the job market. It really depends on the interests of your son. Painting industry requires more expertise and also is more rewarding the artist is really able to mark his signature well and is hardworking, while animation industry today is more software oriented (much different from what your son must be doing now in BVA) and your son might not be interested in accepting this change from a more tactile colorful world of painting to hardcore software based creative work. However, animation industry has space for even medium

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014
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Hi Rashmi,People generally dont need to join any coaching for these exams, however there are many expensive coaching as well as corresponding materials available now a days. I would suggest you to download sample papers from their website. The pattern of the paper changes each year, so you just need to get an idea of what they are trying to test in you and prepare for that creating your own questions and answering them. The selection no. in written paper is much higher that the final intake, most students fail in clearing the interview. Once you clear written exam, portfolio is the most import

Answered by: Megha Agarawal, Founder at Crafting Nuru Schools and Trades, on July 09, 2014