| Have you ever thought how much creativity is | | | | 6.) Lifestyle sector |
| involved in the packing job of different products. | | | | Packaging industry is also based on seasons, and |
| What all thinking process must be involved, when | | | | many of its employees are dependent on the |
| a person packs a product or gift. The essence of | | | | season or the festivals for earning their wages. |
| the job of packing style needs to match the | | | | Diwali, New Year, Christmas, are the occasions in |
| reason or the occasion in which the gift is given. | | | | which the demand and the need of the packaging |
| Today the world is dependent on the outer | | | | industry is on high, these are the maximum profit |
| beauty, whether it's a human being or a product. | | | | earning time for these people. Another important |
| The presentation matters a lot, the first | | | | occasion, which allows the people doing job in the |
| impression that a person gets, is through the | | | | packaging industry to grow is wedding. Wedding |
| looks he carries. This not only goes for human | | | | time is the best time, when we gift hundreds of |
| being, even any materialistic or non- materialistic | | | | items to the opposite family and their relatives. |
| thing gains attention of a human eye, only if it is | | | | The people doing job in the packaging industry are |
| attractive. The definition of attractiveness differs, | | | | required to have the following qualities to maintain |
| according to the interests of human and different | | | | a positive and an upward rise in their career |
| variety of people, with respect to which the | | | | graph: |
| packing of different products is done. | | | | 1.) Employees in the packaging industry must |
| All these requirements of good packing for | | | | be very creative, and imaginative, should know, |
| different selling products and almost every | | | | the interest and likes of different set of |
| materialistic thing have given birth to packaging as | | | | audiences. |
| a separate industry. Packaging industry is next to | | | | 2.) Should be able to read the mind of the |
| any creative industry you name, because of the | | | | customer and work according to his demands and |
| individualistic approach you need to implement | | | | needs. |
| here. Though packaging as an industry has always | | | | 3.) Should know how to maintain a balance |
| been ignored by the Job seekers, but with the | | | | between the company's interest and the |
| increasing demand of the beautifully packed | | | | customers' demand |
| products, more and more employees are opting | | | | 4.) Should be very well versed with the |
| for career in packaging industry. | | | | latest developments in the packaging industry, all |
| In fact to make the students do justice with their | | | | the latest styles and patterns should be known by |
| jobs in packaging industry, many colleges have | | | | him. |
| started packaging courses, some of the colleges | | | | 5.) Should have a great understanding of the |
| are: | | | | colour combinations and must be able to |
| 1.) Indian Institute of Packaging | | | | compliment the packing colour with the actual gift |
| 2.) Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai | | | | 6.) Should have good knowledge about the |
| 3.) Indian Institute of Packaging Technology, | | | | different cultures and traditions of the country, to |
| Mumbai | | | | implement the same, while packing gifts on |
| 4.) The institute of Mass communication and | | | | different occasions |
| media technology, Kurukshetra University | | | | 7.) Should be able to execute the theme and |
| Though packaging has formed a major part of all | | | | essence of the gift in its packing style, the |
| the industries, following are few of the industries, | | | | customer must be able to relate the packaging of |
| which provide great opportunities for employees | | | | the gift, with the occasion or the festival |
| to explore opportunities: | | | | Thus, we can say that packaging industry holds |
| 1.) Food industry | | | | great future for India, and people doing job in |
| 2.) Souvenirs and gifts sector | | | | packaging industry always need to keep on |
| 3.) Clothing and textile industry | | | | working for new and innovative ways to present |
| 4.) Design industry | | | | or match the ideology of the occasion, to which |
| 5.) Education industry | | | | the products or the gifts are associated. |