Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a footwear designer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a footwear designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.

Also known as footwear technologist, footwear designer and developer, shoe stylist, men's footwear designer, women's footwear designer, footwear designer & developer, footwear fashion designer, footwear CAD designer, children's footwear designer, footwear CAD technical designer, footwear stylist, fashion footwear designer.

Professionals 34 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: footwear quality technician, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
footwear quality technician 71% covered footwear quality manager 67% covered leather goods designer 59% covered footwear quality controller 58% covered footwear maintenance technici… 54% covered footwear designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from footwear designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a footwear designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A footwear designer needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • perform market research in footwear management skills
  • last types engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • develop footwear collection communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse types of footwear communication, collaboration and creativity
  • footwear and leather goods marketing planning business, administration and law
  • create patterns for footwear handling and moving
  • create technical sketches for footwear communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans management skills
  • implement footwear marketing plan communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform pattern grading handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a footwear designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Footwear designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a footwear designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.