yatan ahluwalia director ye style media on how the grooming and image industry is going beyond the traditional the corporate world has identified the need for grooming and imaging thus being receptive in adopting these services an image and grooming consultant identifies and translates the vision and values of the company and helps its employees embody the same through clothes accessories makeup skin hair poise posture mannerism fitness and personal grooming the consultant empowers employees to improve their personal and professional life industry status while india becomes globally competitive with the growing need for grooming and image consultants this sector is likely to see an exponential growth in the coming years the influx of international companies and also rise of brand india at the global scale indicates a positive push to the growing numbers growth areas in the coming days there will be a rise in the demand beyond the conventional imagedriven hospitality and aviation sectors and new areas like retail banking hospitals corporates and individuals will come in the foreground employees and staff are the centre of any successful business and imaging and grooming empowers employees so it is safe to believe that any company that caters to the customers will be seeking expertise in this field skillsets required in order to be an image consultant you need to have good training and peopleskills an understanding of lifestyle trends an indepth technical and practical knowledge of fashion clothes accessories skin hair personal grooming and hygiene an image consultant needs to sense the pulse of what works and what people expect from other people as individuals or as a company image consultancy cannot be taught through textbooks or in a classroom and there are not many places to learn and study but one can assist or work with an image consultant to gain practical experience and knowledge remuneration remuneration in this field depends entirely on size scale and services offered the important thing for a fresher in this field is to quantify the volume of work time and effort for each case and charge accordingly a beginner could start with a smaller project only in volume of work with individuals earning as little as rs 15000 and gradually move to bigger hotels corporate etc where the financial returns are higher this will also allow them to scale their services portfolio and assemble a competent team which is an essential part of growth in this field it is important to develop a network and reputation as that will help fuel the success in the field of imaging and grooming there are also returns in the form of gratitude and sense of accomplishment you get from making a positive impact in the lives of individuals you could help transform the life of a single person or thousands of people who are part of a workforce students who are trained in this field can assist established image consultants and then work independently as consultants they can also be