Entry Level Qualification 

12

Career Fields 

Arts & Design

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

AIEED, IICD UG, IICD PG

About Career 

1. As an Interior Designer, you will be visualizing, creating, and implementing designs for interior areas of residencies/homes, restaurants, malls, stores, and luxury trains by specifically arranging particular elements like wood, metal, water, plants, fabric, glass, fire, etc.

2. As an Interior Designer, you will be planning, designing, and furnishing interiors of residential, commercial, or industrial buildings. You will have to formulate a design that is aesthetic, practical, and favorable to intended purposes, such as selling merchandise, raising productivity, or improving lifestyle. You may specialize in a particular style, field, or phase of interior design like designing commercial or personal spaces, bookstores, etc.

3. As an Interior Designer, you need to be creative and analytical with an investigative mindset to constantly learn about new concepts, and evolving technologies and update your existing knowledge. You will need to conduct extensive research to develop and maintain your design skills. You will need a deep understanding of the subtle elements that make up an enclosed space and the way various participating objects are manufactured to know how and where to place them.

4. Interior Designers work according to their philosophies which they develop after learning about various cultural design philosophies like Feng Shui from China, Shibusa from Japan, Blessings from Ireland, Vastu Shastra from India, Raid from Morocco, Hygge from Scandinavia, etc. You need to be able to reinforce the identity of a client by using your creativity to produce a simple, clean yet attractive design that suits the needs of your clientele.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As an Interior Designer, you will be engaged with one or more of the following roles and responsibilities: -

1. You will be interacting with your clients to understand their concepts and creative ideas before conceptualizing, creating, and building your design.

2. You will be advising your clients on interior design aspects such as space layout, planning, use of equipment or furnishings, and color coordination.

3. You will be conferring with the client to determine factors like architectural preferences, budget, purpose, etc. that may affect your plans.

4. You will be formulating, conceptualizing, creating, and building a design that is aesthetic, practical, favorable, and compliant to the suggestions of your clients or colleagues under prior discussions that you may have had.

5. You will be estimating material costs and requirements, and presenting your design to the client for approval.

6. You will be assisting computer-aided drafting (CAD) technicians or using associated software yourself to produce relevant construction documents about your design.

7. You will be selecting designing, and purchasing furnishings, accessories, and artworks according to approved design plans.

8. You will be inspecting construction work at a location to ensure that the output adheres to your design plans.

9. You will be coordinating with contractors, engineers, architects, plumbers, and other professionals to ensure job success.

10. You will be researching and exploring the use of new technologies, materials, and products to incorporate into your designs, update your knowledge, and maintain your design skills.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per the scheme of studies - Class 11-12 with any subject as per the scheme of studies – B. Des / B. A. /B. Voc.

After completing Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies then complete Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies. You can go for a Bachelor's degree (B. Des-Bachelor of Design / B. A. –Bachelor of Arts/ B. Voc- Bachelor of Vocation) course in ‘Interior Design’, ‘Interior Styling’, ‘Interior Decoration’, ‘Interior Design and Architecture’, ‘Interior Design and Entrepreneurship’, ‘Furniture and Interior Design’, ‘Interior Architecture’, ‘Interior Decoration and Designing’, ‘Interior Design & Decoration’ or similar courses. After your graduation, you can also opt for Diploma / Certificate / Orientation / Post Graduate Diploma courses for Feng Shui, Vastu Shastra, Irish Blessings, Raid, Hygge, Shibusa, etc.

After completing Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies then complete Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies. You can go for a Bachelor's degree (B. Des-Bachelor of Design / B. A. –Bachelor of Arts/ B. Voc- Bachelor of Vocation) course in ‘Interior Design’, ‘Interior Styling’, ‘Interior Decoration’, ‘Interior Design and Architecture’, ‘Interior Design and Entrepreneurship’, ‘Furniture and Interior Design’, ‘Interior Architecture’, ‘Interior Decoration and Designing’, ‘Interior Design & Decoration’ or similar courses. Then you can go for a Master's degree (M. Des-Master of Design / M. A. –Master of Arts/ M. Voc- Master of Vocation) program in ‘Interior Design and Entrepreneurship’, ‘Interior Design’, ‘Interior Styling’, ‘Interior Decoration’, ‘Interior Design and Architecture’, ‘ Furniture and Interior Design’, ‘Interior Architecture’, ‘Interior Decoration and Designing’, ‘Interior Design & Decoration’ or similar courses. You can also follow it up with orientation courses for Feng Shui, Vastu Shastra, Irish Blessings, Raid, Hygge, Shibusa, etc.

After completing Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies then complete Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies. You can go for various Diploma / Certificate / Orientation / Post Graduate Diploma courses for ‘Interior Design’, ‘Interior Styling’, ‘Interior Decoration’, ‘Interior Design and Architecture’, ‘Interior Design and Entrepreneurship’, ‘ Furniture and Interior Design’, ‘Interior Architecture’, ‘Interior Decoration and Designing’, ‘Interior Design & Decoration’, ‘Feng Shui’, ‘Vastu Shastra’, ‘Irish Blessings’, ‘Raid’, ‘Hygge’, ‘Shibusa’ etc.

After completing Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies then complete Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies. Then graduation with any subjects followed by a Master's degree program in any discipline, you can go for various Diploma / Certificate / Orientation courses for ‘Interior Design’, ‘Interior Styling’, ‘Interior Decoration’, ‘Interior Design and Architecture’, ‘Interior Design, and Entrepreneurship’, ‘Furniture and Interior Design’, ‘Interior Architecture’, ‘Interior Decoration and Designing’, ‘Interior Design & Decoration’, ‘Feng Shui’, ‘Vastu Shastra’, ‘Irish Blessings’, ‘Raid’, ‘Hygge’, ‘Shibusa’ etc.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

After Class 11-12, you can go for:

1. Diploma / Certificate / Orientation courses.

2. Bachelor's degree courses.

After your graduation, you can go for a Post Graduate Diploma or Master level program. Various private/public educational establishments offer these or related courses:

1. Furniture and Interior Design

2. Interior Architecture

3. Interior Decoration and design

4. Interior Design & Decoration

Competencies Required

1. You should have an interest in Artistic Occupations. Artistic occupations mostly involve working with creative ideas, art, and designs. These occupations involve abstract or conceptual thinking, and creative self-expression and often do not follow any set processes or rules for getting things done.

2. You should have an interest in Enterprising Occupations. Enterprising occupations involve taking initiative, initiating actions, and planning to achieve goals, often business goals. These involve gathering resources and leading people to get things done. These require decision-making, risk-taking, and action orientation.

3. You should know Creative Design - Knowledge of various techniques, methods, and specifications for creating and developing designs for various products like animation, graphics, web, user interfaces of digital devices, photography, etc.

4. You should have Critical Thinking Skills- Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

5. You should have Active Listening Skills - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

6. You should have Active Learning Skills - Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation, and otherwise for application in getting work done.

7. You should have Artistic and Visual Design Skills - creating and developing designs that are visually appealing and attractive.

8. You should have Instruction Skills - training others how to do something.

9. You should have Skills in Managing Material Resources - sourcing, buying, storing, and use of appropriate raw materials, machines, equipment, and devices for various purposes such as industrial manufacturing, building construction, etc.

10. You should have Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or innovative ideas about a given topic or situation or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

11. You should have Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with several ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

12. You should have a Selective Attention Ability - concentrate on a task over a long period without being distracted.

13. You should have Spatial Ability - to visualize three-dimensional objects by looking at the objects on paper or visualize objects mentally in three dimensions.

14. You may need Abstract Reasoning Ability – understand ideas that are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts that are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.

15. You should have Spatial Orientation Ability - know your location about the environment or know where other objects are about you.

16. You should have a Visual Color Discrimination Ability - match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

17. You should have a Visualization Ability - imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

18. You are always imaginative in most situations.

19. You act independently sometimes but do not do so at some other times.

20. You prefer to experience new things and have new experiences sometimes.

21. You are mostly impulsive in your actions and behavior.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

You will find job opportunities with individual design studios or various companies dealing with real estate, travel and tourism, construction, etc. working on projects that involve designing residencies/homes, restaurants, stand-out individual spaces, malls, stores, luxury trains, institutes, palaces, hotels, planes, boats, buses, showrooms,  in these or similar roles:

1. Junior Interior Designer

2. Interior Design – Intern

3. Assistant Interior Designer

4. Interior Design Apprentice

5. Associate Interior Decoration Architect

6. 3D Interior Design Artist

7. Interior Layout Design Specialist

Career Growth

1. From entry-level job positions you can grow into roles like Senior Interior Architect, Design Engineer, Lead Site Supervisor, Interior Project Manager, Chief Interior Designer – 3D, Design Lead, Creative Director, Art Director, etc.

2. You can develop your design studio and expand it to build a chain of studios serving a clientele including eminent personalities, designing celebrity homes, famous restaurant chains, luxury hotels, central kitchens of elite-class hotels, etc.

Salary Offered  

1. In entry-level jobs: You can expect about Rs. 10,000 – Rs. 30,000 or more per month.

2. After 1-6 years of experience, you can expect about Rs. 15,000 – Rs. 50,000 or more a month.

3. After having 6-12 years of experience, you can expect about Rs. 20,000 – Rs. 1, 00, 000 or more per month.

4. In senior-level jobs, with 12+ years of work experience, you may expect to make about Rs. 40,000 – Rs. 3, 00, 000 or more a month.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also shortly, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Creative thinking - Developing new ideas, concepts, innovative solutions to problems, newer ways of getting things done, designing products and services, creating works of art and craft, etc.

2. Getting Information and learning - Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it, collaborating with the Rigging Artists (they create the skeletons of the animation models)

3. Providing advice and consultation to others - Giving advice or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-how, scientific matters, products, or services.

4. Using computers for work - Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and processing information; for writing.

5. Organising, planning, and prioritizing tasks - Planning and organizing tasks to achieve work goals; prioritizing tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

6. Making decisions and solving problems - Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

7. Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials - Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials to ascertain quality, performance, defects, causes of errors, etc.

8. Estimating quantity, cost, time, and resources - Estimating sizes, volumes, distance, and quantity; estimating and determining time, costs, and resources; estimating materials required to perform a task.

9. Managing and supervising - Managing and supervising the work of others; setting goals; giving instructions; monitoring work performance, etc.

10. Monitoring use of resources - Monitoring and controlling the use of resources like land and materials as well as spending of money.

11. Communicating with co-workers and others - Communicating with people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc., or with people at large.

12. Developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships - Developing professional relationships with co-workers and others outside organizations and maintaining good relationships.