1. Start Your Own Image Consulting Business

A challenging yet the most lucrative career route to take is the entrepreneurial route. After completing your Image Consulting course, you could set up your own Image Consulting Business and practice as a Certified Image Consultant.

This means you have to plan out your finances, resources, location, and build your brand identity. You could either work solo or collaborate with your fellow peers to run a successful Image Consulting Business.

Calculated risks, thorough planning, effective execution of strategy, and a considerable amount of time are essential to succeed. AICI accredited Image Consulting programs like the one at ISIM offer Business Development classes, tools, blueprints, and all the resources that help everyone to kickstart their Image Consulting Business.

2. Corporate Trainer

For anyone who wishes to help train professionals, corporate training is the optimum image consulting career option to go for.

Corporate trainers are hired by companies to train employees in soft skills that are required to thrive in the workplace resulting in better productivity and performance.

These skills include communication skills, business writing etiquette, public speaking, presentation skills, job-specific functional and technical skills.

Given that the demand for corporate trainers is on the rise since all companies are looking to have an edge over the competition, you will receive rewarding work opportunities.

3. Etiquette Consultant/ Behavior Coach

Not everyone is well-versed in etiquettes or has the right knowledge about appropriate behavior. This is where an Etiquette Consultant comes into the picture.

An Etiquette Coach trains individuals on how to behave properly in a social or business setting. Depending upon the type of clients and their requirements, etiquette consultants teach dining etiquettes, corporate etiquettes, communication etiquette, and much more.

As a certified Image Consultant, you will be well-versed with all the etiquettes during your training and hence it opens up opportunities for you to operate as an etiquette coach.

You will find incredible work opportunities in sectors such as Customer Service, Hospitality, Events, Public Relations, International Relations, and Protocol, etc. 

4. Personal Shopper

If you have an interest in curating fashion and outfits, then becoming a Personal Shopper is the right choice after completing your Image Consulting program.

A personal shopper helps clients to shop for the right clothing and accessories as per the requirement. They work as personal stylists of individuals and hence curate as well as update their wardrobe by shopping on their behalf.

Various boutiques, department stores, clothing brand outlets also hire personal shoppers to assist customers with their personal styling requirements. You may also work as a freelance personal shopper and help clients shop online for the right clothes and accessories.

5. Body Language & Communication Trainer

Communication is one of the essentials cores of Image Consulting education and hence becoming a Body Language & Communication trainer is an excellent way to kickstart a career.

As a Body Language trainer, you will be able to train clients and individuals, the correct way of using nonverbal communication such as gestures, facial expressions, body postures, eye movements, voice modulations as well as appropriate ways to use touch and space.

Sectors such as corporate firms, hospitality, aviation, education institutions look to hire Communication trainers to groom their teams in the best way possible. Hence, opting to become a Body Language Trainer is another lucrative Image Consulting career opportunity.

6. Fashion Stylist/ Wardrobe Stylist 

Another one of the sought-after careers in the Image Consulting domain is Fashion Styling. Individuals with a great sense of style and a deep interest in fashion may opt for this career opportunity after completing their Image Management course.

Also known as Wardrobe Stylists, you will be able to consult clients for award shows, music videos, commercials, movies, and official photoshoots. You have to assist and collaborate with photographers, directors, fashion designers, hair and makeup stylists to create the best-suited look for your clients.

Fashion Stylists who especially assist, curate, and accessorize styles of celebrities are known as Celebrity Stylists. Apart from finding freelance work, Fashion Stylists are hired by fashion labels, advertising agencies, and media houses for assisting in terms of wardrobe requirements as per the relevant themes.

7. Personal Brand Strategist and Public Relations

Branding has become a crucial element of marketing for all businesses. But personal branding is yet another area where the demand for a personal brand strategist or consultant is very high. This poses exceptional opportunities for Image Consultants and trainers to venture into personal branding.

As Brand Strategist, you get to help your clients establish their authentic personal brand. You work along with individual clients or a group to help them achieve their marketing goals by building credibility.

By curating their overall image, you help clients to reach their target audience and build the trust to generate business opportunities by establishing them as subject matter experts.

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Average Annual Salary

? 4.0 LPA

Moderate Confidence 

• ? 1.2L(lowest)

• ? 4.0L(average)

• ? 12.1L(highest)

Avg. Salary (in Lakhs)

Salaries Reported

Image Consultant salary in India ranges between ? 1.2 Lakhs to ? 13.7 Lakhs with an average annual salary of ? 4.0 Lakhs. Salary estimates are based on 17 latest salaries received from Image Consultants.

Average Annual Salary by Experience

Avg. Salary (in Lakhs)

Image Consultant salary in India with less than 1 year of experience to 9 years ranges from ? 1.2 Lakhs to ? 13.7 Lakhs with an average annual salary of ? 4 Lakhs based on 17 latest salaries.

Pros of the profession:

1. Creative and interesting work

2. Today you can work from home in any country

3. They pay well, the profession is more and more in demand

4. You can work in different areas

Cons of the profession:

1. Non-permanent work, not in the office

2. Working with people

3. It is difficult to get started and find the first clients

Career Pros Details

1. Creative and interesting work

In fact, this is one of the biggest benefits of the profession. You won’t be sitting at a computer, typing documents or doing something boring at all.
The everyday work of a wardrobe stylist is very unusual and interesting. You come up with a style, you create an image, every day you look at fashion websites, fashion shows, look at beautiful clothes, go shopping – all this greatly develops your aesthetic taste and just makes work a pleasure.

2. Today you can work from home in any country

An image stylist is a job that allows you to work when and where it suits you. You don’t need to go to the office, you can work from home. You can work 1 hour or 5 hours a day, as you wish.
If you are sitting with your child, you can work when he/she sleeps or at night. Today, such service as online image consulting is very common.

You can work without leaving your home at all, which is very important for those who, for example, live abroad and cannot work in an office in another country. And if you know other languages besides English, you can work with clients from all over the world.'

3. They pay well, the profession is more and more in demand

If earlier the profession of an image consultant and stylist was only for VIPs and celebrities, today more and more ordinary people come to stylists. They might ask stylists to create a wardrobe for going to work, to choose an outfit for a party or other event like a wedding, or simply to update their wardrobe.

And they pay very well for this work. The cost of one image consultation varies from 150 to 650 euros.
Personal shopping is paid at the rate of: 1 hour of personal shopping – 50-100 euros.

As you can tell, if you are a stylist, you can work several days a week and make good money.

4. You can work in different areas

The good thing about the profession of a stylist is that you can work in completely different directions.

If you like working with people, you can conduct offline image consultations.
If you want to work on the Internet, you will have online image consulting and online shopping.
If you like shopping, you can work as a personal shopper.
If you want to get into the real world of fashion and work with professionals, you can work as a fashion stylist and help to stylize, select stylish outfits for models, create looks for designer campaigns and look books and help to perform fashion shows.
You can work with celebrities (actors, singers), advertising designer brands or just ordinary companies, and with ordinary people, or, for example, with TV hosts.

Career Cons Details

1. Non-permanent work, not in the office

If you are used to working constantly in the office, when you have a certain schedule, a fixed salary, vacation pay, then the work of an image consultant is not for you. Here you are your own boss. And you determine the schedule yourself.

Therefore, the work of an image consultant is not likely to suit people who like a certain routine and are used to working somewhere in the office. An image consultant does not go to the office, he works from home. He can rent a studio or rent an image agency where he will meet with clients, but still he will work more alone at his own place.

2. Working with people

If you are an introvert, if you don’t like working with people, this profession is not for you.
An image consultant works with people, he constantly communicates.
It is very important to be flexible, because the stylist-image consultant is not the one who, as they show on TV, comes and makes a person wear certain clothes, but the one who can understand the person and can choose what is really necessary for this person.

Therefore, if you do not like to communicate, this profession will not suit you.

If you don’t like socializing, you should choose other profession in fashion, for example, working as a blogger, journalist or fashion illustrator. In this case, you will work alone from home and you won’t have to communicate with other people.

3. It is difficult to get started and find the first clients

The hardest step for stylists is when they finish fashion courses and then try to start working with clients.

On the one hand, they are still embarrassed to call themselves a stylist and to tell their friends and relatives that they can work with their wardrobe.
On the other hand, they have not yet made a name for themselves and have not become experts in fashion.

Therefore, as soon as some people encounter difficulties, with the fact that many clients do not appear at once, some people quit this job and find it very difficult to be a stylist.
But this happens in any job: to have regular clients, to become famous in fashion, it is important for you to start working, making the first image consultations, creating a portfolio and getting customer reviews.

1. Customer Service

Customer service is the process of offering assistance to all the current and potential customers -- answering questions, fixing problems, and providing excellent service. The main goal of customer service is to build a strong relationship with the customers so that they keep coming back for more business.

Here's how customer service is used on image consultant resumes:

• Focused on customer service, fast paced environment, multiple customer interactions simultaneously.
• Provided constructive feedback to peers to reinforce customer service/communication importance.
• Provide personalized customer service, custom image and wardrobe consulting.
• Provided exceptional customer service and conducted multiple-unit sales.
• Use strong customer service skills to aid in consulting with all levels of customers to ensure that their needs are met.

2. Make-Up

Make-up is the way something is put together or arranged to create a story that is not true.

In fashion, makeup is a colored substance, a decorative cosmetic that people use on the face to enhance their appearance and express everything about a person's personality, including their mood.

Here's how make-up is used on image consultant resumes:

• Coordinated make-up for customers and selection of photography lay-outs.
• Collaborated on wardrobe hair, make-up and behavior to promote executive presence.
• Assist customers with hair, make-up, and wardrobe selection.
• Design hair and make-up for female and male models.
• Educated and Serviced clients on make-up, hair.

3. Photo Shoots

A photoshoot is a series of photographs that a photographer takes of someone, usually of a model or a famous person, to be used in a newspaper or a magazine. The goal of a photoshoot is to achieve a predetermined visual objective. Later, these images can be used for editing or post-production..

Here's how photo shoots is used on image consultant resumes:

• Image consultant duties include doing full hair and makeup make overs on clients before their photo shoots.
• Assist clients with wardrobe before appearances or at photo shoots.
• Perform make over for customer in preparation for photo shoot.
• Assisted photographer during photo shoot.
• Film, Television, Theatre, Corporate, Bridal, Photo Shoots.

• 4. Event Space

  Here's how event space is used on image consultant resumes:

• Motivate volunteers to identify new donors, new regions and event spaces.

• 5. Closet Organization

  Here's how closet organization is used on image consultant resumes:

• Work with private clients to assist with wardrobe development, styling, personal shopping, and closet organization.
• Assist them in closet organization.

• 6. Professional Image

  Here's how professional image is used on image consultant resumes:

• Developed a successful Image Consulting Business Service that helped improve people's professional image.
• Helped clients establish their personal and professional image for proper job placement.
• Career guidance Market development for small businesses Personal & Professional Image Guidance