A growing appetite worldwide for sushi spells great opportunities for Japanese chefs abroad, says MIKI TANIKAWA . At the sound of the buzzer, Kensuke Aoki starts furiously pressing rice into shape in his left palm. Adding dabs of bright green wasabi paste and quickly placing slices of mackerel on top of the rice, he completes [...]

Introduction:- Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format. Pertinent, up-to-date, confidential patient information is converted to a written text document by a medical transcriptionist (MT). This text may be [...]

Turn your passion for wines into a rewarding career. Life is short, and the list of things to do long. But Magandeep Singh is happy that he has been able to do what he’d fancied all along. “It was my dream to be able to speak fluent French. My passion for the culture also led [...]

Spending 40 hours a week at restaurants sampling dishes ranging from the exquisite to the inedible is no easy job, says Andrew Alexander ………….. After a heavy dinner, when your stomach is groaning from gluttony, take a moment to reflect on Tom Sietsema. As The Post’s food critic, he dines out every evening and dispatches [...]

If you love children and have a high energy level, Montessori teaching can be a satisfying profession. Nandini Sampat has been a Montessori teacher for 19 years. According to her, it has been a “most rewarding experience”. “I simply can’t quantify it. I have enjoyed each and every moment spent with the children,” says Sampat, [...]

If fitness is your passion, helping others achieve it can become your profession:- …………….. Be it the old or the young, male or female, staying fit seems to top everyone’s wish list. Being fit has never been so popular. The demand for aerobics instructors, yoga instructors and personal and corporate trainers is rocketing. A fitness [...]

Image by Arch//Land via Flickr Zainab Patanwala can’t remember a time when she was this excited about an assignment. She has been asked to do landscape designing for a new farmhouse coming up on the outskirts of Pune. “This is my most challenging project so far, and I am confident that I will do well,” [...]

The global automobile industry may have been hit by the financial crisis, but it’s doing quite well in India — and hiring freshers too. ……….. Guneet Kaur Bhatia never thought an automobile expo would make her career — but that’s exactly what happened. The third-year student represented Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology at a [...]

Journalism as a profession has acquired a broader dimension today. The skill-sets are no longer specific and the importance of digital media cannot   be ignored any more. A holistic training is soon becoming imperative to equip students to meet the myriad demands of the industry. ……………….. Addressing the need of the times, Sir Michael Parkinson [...]

A short-term course in commodity trading may be a good investment: Till a few years back, when you thought of investment the instruments that came to mind included fixed deposits, mutual funds, stocks, bonds and real estate. But today you can invest even in metals, cereals, pulses, crude oil, rubber and coffee — thanks to [...]