Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a wearing apparel patternmaker can go next

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

Wearing apparel patternmakers interpret design sketches and cut patterns for all kinds of wearing apparel using various handtools or industrial machines complying with customer requirements. They make samples and prototypes in order to produce series of patterns of wearing apparel in different sizes.

Craft and related trades workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: clothing CAD technician, 75%

clothing CAD technician 75% covered clothing operations manager 75% covered sewing machine operator 71% covered sewing machinist 71% covered clothing sample machinist 68% covered wearing apparel patternma… You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from wearing apparel patternmaker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a wearing apparel patternmaker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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wearing apparel patternmaker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a wearing apparel patternmaker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.