Where a sewing machinist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a sewing machinist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Sewing machinists sew components of wearing apparel together. They can repair and renovate wearing apparel by hand or by using different sewing machines.
Also known as seamstress, sewing operator, sewer, sew on machinist, sewing worker.
Craft and related trades workers 14 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: embroidery machine operator, 79%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A sewing machinist needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- buttonholing engineering, manufacturing and construction
- alter wearing apparel handling and moving
- manufacture wearing apparel products handling and moving
- manufacturing of made-up textile articles engineering, manufacturing and construction
- manufacturing of wearing apparel engineering, manufacturing and construction
- operate garment manufacturing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- sew textile-based articles handling and moving
- apparel manufacturing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
- decorate textile articles working with machinery and specialised equipment
- sew pieces of fabric working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a sewing machinist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- clothing finisher 74% covered · difficulty 25.6
- wearing apparel patternmaker 71% covered · difficulty 28.1
- embroidery machine operator 66% covered · difficulty 32.7
- wearing apparel presser 63% covered · difficulty 35.2
- glove maker 58% covered · difficulty 39.7
- milliner 55% covered · difficulty 42.1
- embroiderer 50% covered · difficulty 46.4
- made-up textile articles manufacturer 50% covered · difficulty 46.4
- protective clothing apparel manufacturer 34% covered · difficulty 59.5
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Sewing machinist is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a sewing machinist’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.