The growth in India's economy has led to boom in construction business. Infrastructure in India has never witnessed such stupendous growth. Every first and second grade city in the country is seeing rapid construction of roads, skyscrapers, flyovers, schools, hotels, hospitals, mega malls, resident properties and townships, new airports or modernization of existing ones etc.
Jobs for Architects/ Architecture Interior Design Jobs
Given the present scenario of frenetic development, architecture jobs in India offer excellent scope for the development of a budding architect’s professional expertise. Joining a firm will help you get involved in projects ranging from tiny housing complexes to planned cities or suburbs. Exposure to all these can add immensely to your experience and profile.
Every construction work requires the involvement of designer and constructors. When you join a firm as an architect you have to work in close coordination of both technical and non-technical people. These include surveyors, contractors, designers, engineers, along with masons, electricians, carpenters, plumbers etc. Interacting with the highest to the humblest can be a great learning experience.
Jobs for Landscape Architects
Landscape architects are responsible for planning, designing, and monitoring layouts of built environment in urban, suburban, and rural areas. This primarily includes private and public open spaces, gardens, parks, streetscapes, housing developments, plazas, memorials; burial grounds, tourist centers, industrial and educational complexes; botanic gardens, zoos, sports grounds, recreation etc. As India is developing architecturally like never before firms, both government and private are recruiting Landscape architects in large numbers.
Salary in Architecture Jobs
Architects start their career with a very modest initial pay of around 10-15k. After one gains experience and excellence ones salary can go to up lakhs. However as an architect it takes 5-10 yrs to get established and rake in millions.
Skills Needed to Become an Architect
If you were good in physics and mathematics in your plus 2 levels you can pursue a course in architecture. Other required skills include being creative and having an inclination towards designing.
Institutions of Architecture
Architecture is taught in many leading colleges and technical institutes in India. The most famous among them is the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. After completing your course you can either practice or join a firm of architects. Several Engineering colleges in India also have an architecture department. Entrance exams to architecture courses are usually not very tough.
Other Construction, Shuttering & Apprentice Carpenter Jobs
Carpenters are part and parcel of construction industry. Their professional skills and expertise match various requirements of the construction work. Carpenters form the influential group among other building and construction trade workers. These professionals have varied responsibilities to fulfill. These include sawing, shaping and fastening wood to construct houses, offices, factories and other constructions. Their skills are also hired to make doors, windows, cabinets and furniture.
How to Get Carpenters Job?
There are different steps that can guide you on your way to grab a carpentry job. Let's find out what it takes to become a professional carpenter.
- Make sure that you pick up one of the many high school courses that teach the trade. Some of these courses include business, technology, drafting, construction design and mathematics.
- In order to get yourself enrolled in your selected course, you are required to apply to a trade school, vocational school or any community school. It would take you a period of one year to complete the course.
- Once you are a qualified carpenter, you are eligible to explore the professional field. Now, you require to participate in a co-operative placement program. Bagging an initial placement would help you chisel your carpentry skills.
- Make sure to pick up an internship program. But before you proceed, ensure that you have completed all the levels of secondary school education.
Joiner Carpenter Jobs
Many people get confused between construction carpenter jobs and joiner carpenter jobs. Joiner carpenter professionals have more polished skills. They generally do their work under the guidance of a blueprint. They also use various measuring tools that are operated both mechanically and manually.
A qualified joiner carpenter works under below-mentioned capacities.
- Joiner
- Trainer
- Instructor
- Assessor
- Lecturer
Besides the job skill of joiner carpenters, the skills related to Apprentice, construction and shuttering carpenter jobs also have great professional value.