News from NICO | Career Guidance and Interactive Session with Alumni

An interactive session with alumni was held on Monday, 27th June 2022 at the college premises. Alumni Spoorthi Thej, Content Producer for IVM Podcasts and Content Creator for Spoorthi Speaks and Neel Kote, Creative Director, Throttelman Films spoke to students about their journey.

Spoorthi spoke of her beginnings as RJ for Big FM, and then a compere and show host at social and corporate events, to branching out into a content creator, creating the popular character Kundapur Magu and now also being part of a Kannada web series.

Neel, a broadcast student while at NICO, began his career as a freelancer for Decathlon, went on to work on a biography for well-known Builder Dayanand Pai, and is now part of several ad films and corporate films. He shared with students some of the work done by his Production House and spoke of the challenges they encountered while making these films.

The event ended with a question answer session, with both Spoorthi and Neel enthusiastically answering questions posed by students. Both of them impressed upon students the need to work on a portfolio while in college. The event was jointly organised by the Placement Cell and Alumni Cell of NICO.