dressmakertotailor
A dressmaker already meets 62% of what the tailor role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 47.5 of 100 · moderate
1 Share of the tailor role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the dressmaker profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 28 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A tailor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a dressmaker background worth leading with.
- already held e-tailoring engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held make made-to-measure garments handling and moving
- already held manufacturing of children clothing engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held measure the human body for wearing apparel information skills
- already held mass customisation business, administration and law
- already held buttonholing engineering, manufacturing and construction
All 28 carried skills, including the 16 the tailor role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 13 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held manufacture male suits required
- required, not held sew textile-based articles required
- required, not held grade patterns for wearing apparel required
- required, not held iron textiles required
- required, not held fabric spreading in the fashion industry required
- required, not held history of fashion required
- required, not held marker making required
- required, not held design wearing apparel required
- required, not held prepare production prototypes required
- required, not held apparel manufacturing technology required
- required, not held evaluate garment quality required
- required, not held operate garment manufacturing machines required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a tailor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 manufacture male suits skill · occupation specific
- 02 apparel manufacturing technology knowledge · sector specific
- 03 design wearing apparel skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 28 skills that carry over
- already held alter wearing apparel skill
- already held buttonholing knowledge
- already held create patterns for garments skill
- already held cut fabrics skill
- already held distinguish accessories skill
- already held distinguish fabrics skill
- already held draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares skill
- already held e-tailoring knowledge
- already held make made-to-measure garments skill
- already held make technical drawings of fashion pieces skill
- already held manage briefs for clothing manufacturing skill
- already held manufacture wearing apparel products skill
- already held measure the human body for wearing apparel skill
- already held properties of textile materials knowledge
- already held sew pieces of fabric skill
- already held standard sizing systems for clothing knowledge
- already held CAD for garment manufacturing knowledge
- already held analyse scanned data of the body skill
- already held assist with dressing skill
- already held bundle fabrics skill
- already held create mood boards skill
- already held decorate textile articles skill
- already held draw sketches to develop textile articles skill
- already held embroider fabrics skill
- already held manufacturing of children clothing knowledge
- already held mass customisation knowledge
- already held use 3D scanners for clothing skill
- already held use textile technique for hand-made products skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held 3D body scanning technologies optional
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held 3D body scanning technologies optional
3 held skills the tailor role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role keep up to date on costume design skill
- not needed by the target role pleat fabrics skill
- not needed by the target role sew underwear skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held apparel manufacturing technology required
- required, not held fabric spreading in the fashion industry required
- required, not held history of fashion required
- required, not held marker making required
- optional, not held 3D body scanning technologies optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.