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

printing textile techniciantotextile chemist

A printing textile technician already meets 59% of what the textile chemist role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.

From printing textile technician
59%
Overlap1
To textile chemist
11 Skills carried over
6 Required, not held
40.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

59%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

40.9/ 100

1 Share of the textile chemist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the printing textile 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.

Why

Why this move works

A textile chemist role treats 10 of its required skills as things a printing textile technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • conduct textile testing operations
  • control textile process
  • design yarns
  • dyeing technology
  • evaluate textile characteristics
  • maintain work standards

What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A textile chemist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a printing textile technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held design yarns communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held develop textile colouring recipes handling and moving
  • already held textile chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held textile printing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held textile finishing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held dyeing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction

All 11 carried skills, including the 10 the textile chemist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 9 missing skills fall into 5 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 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held properties of textile materials required
  • required, not held research and development in textiles required
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
02 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held use textile finishing machine technologies required
  • optional, not held manufacture man-made fibres optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required
  • required, not held design warp knit fabrics required
04 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held develop specifications of technical textiles required
05 services 1 required
  • required, not held health and safety in the textile industry required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a textile chemist 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 11 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held conduct textile testing operations skill
  • already held control textile process skill
  • already held design yarns skill
  • already held dyeing technology knowledge
  • already held evaluate textile characteristics skill
  • already held maintain work standards skill
  • already held textile chemistry knowledge
  • already held textile finishing technology knowledge
  • already held textile printing technology knowledge
  • already held textile technologies knowledge
  • already held develop textile colouring recipes skill
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held manufacture man-made fibres optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
5 held skills the textile chemist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role decorate textile articles skill
  • not needed by the target role design woven fabrics skill
  • not needed by the target role draw sketches to develop textile articles skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare equipment for textile printing skill
  • not needed by the target role tend textile printing machines 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held properties of textile materials required
  • required, not held research and development in textiles required
  • required, not held health and safety in the textile industry required
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from printing textile technician

Full index of moves from printing textile technician

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.