Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

leather goods quality control laboratory techniciantoleather goods quality manager

A leather goods quality control laboratory technician already meets 77% of what the leather goods quality manager role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

From leather goods quality control laboratory technician
77%
Overlap1
To leather goods quality manager
12 Skills carried over
3 Required, not held
22.7 Difficulty2
adjacent 0–30
moderate 30–55
substantial 55–75
career change 75–100
this move, 22.7

This move: 22.7 of 100 · adjacent

1 Share of the leather goods quality manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the leather goods quality control laboratory technician 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

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A leather goods quality manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a leather goods quality control laboratory technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held perform laboratory tests on footwear or leather goods working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held manage footwear quality systems management skills
  • already held apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques information skills
  • already held innovate in footwear and leather goods industry management skills
  • already held leather goods manufacturing processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held leather goods quality engineering, manufacturing and construction

All 12 carried skills, including the 11 the leather goods quality manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 4 missing skills fall into 3 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods required
  • optional, not held determine leather goods warehouse layout optional
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • required, not held footwear finishing techniques required
03 services 1 required
  • required, not held health and safety in the workplace required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a leather goods quality manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 12 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques skill
  • already held communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages skill
  • already held innovate in footwear and leather goods industry skill
  • already held leather goods components knowledge
  • already held leather goods manufacturing processes knowledge
  • already held leather goods materials knowledge
  • already held leather goods quality knowledge
  • already held manage footwear quality systems skill
  • already held reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing skill
  • already held use IT tools skill
  • already held use communication techniques skill
  • already held perform laboratory tests on footwear or leather goods skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held determine leather goods warehouse layout optional
0 held skills the leather goods quality manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held footwear finishing techniques required
  • required, not held health and safety in the workplace required
Index
Note

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.