The Institute of Fashion Technology Kerala is established by the Govt. of Kerala in technical collaboration with the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India. The institute has been set up under the aegis of Centre for Continuing Education Kerala, with the intention of developing professionals for talking up leadership positions in fashion business in the emerging global scenrio.
The Fashion industry in India is mainly driven by growing exposure of domestic designers at International forums, but growth is also supported by another important factor, focused fashion education courses for the emerging designers. Today fashion industry, like many other global industries engage special designing techniques, production methods, marketing & IT tools, it demands specially trained peoples for these. Courses designed and delivered at IFTK, located at the beautiful surroundings of Vellimon, Kundara, Kollam District, Kerala, fulfills these demands through its professionally managed campus. Institute of Fashion Technology Kerala is the first of its kind in Kerala established by the Government of Kerala. The Institute aims at providing a common platform for fashion education, research and training.
Apart from providing one of the basic necessities of life, the textile and clothing industry also plays a pivotal role through its contribution to industrial output, employment generation, and the export earnings of the country. Currently, it contributes about 14 percent to industrial production, 4 per cent to the GDP, and 13.50 percent to the country's export earnings. It provides direct employment to over 35 million people, which includes a substantial number of SC/ST, and women. The Textiles sector is the second largest provider of employment after agriculture. Thus, the growth and all round development of this industry has a direct bearing on the improvement of the economy of the nation.
The Campus Placement Cell facilitates students to interact with prospective employers to enable them to start their careers in challenging positions. Leading national and international apparel companies shall be contacted for campus placement.
The main endeavor of Placement Services Cell, of IFTK is to get students placed in reputed apparel, textile and retail multinational companies. All registered students with the Placement Services Cell will be entitled to placement assistance, counseling for employment and even self employment. The Placement Services Cell assures full support to the visiting companies at every stage of the placement process by making IFTK infrastructure available to them. The Placement Services Cell will act as an interface between the industry and the students and will primarily enable the students to select from their career options and also facilitate the selection process of all the companies as per their requirement. The Placement Services Coordinator will liaison with corporate organizations to provide suitable jobs for the candidates completing their studies from IFTK. The Placement Services Cell also conducts Placement Week, seminars and workshops by industry experts to enable the students of IFTK to become successful professionals.
IFTK is happy to share the news of the placement of all its students of 2010 Batch (Diploma in Fashion Design) in the Placement Week organized last year. Around 15 companies from the field of fashion, Apparel & Textile, made their valuable presence in the IFTK campus as part of the placement week. The companies followed a strict disciplined & challenging screening processes in order to select the very best. The placement services coordinator shall train and prepare the students in this regard for optimum results during the screening processes in the placement week. Our students have been placed in Globus Stores, Gokaldas Exports, Karle International, Madura Fashion and Life Style, Jockey, FabIndia to name a few.
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