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

screen making techniciantotextile chemist

A screen making technician already meets 46% of what the textile chemist role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.

From screen making technician
46%
Overlap1
To textile chemist
8 Skills carried over
8 Required, not held
53.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

46%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

53.2/ 100

1 Share of the textile chemist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the screen making 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 8 of its required skills as things a screen making technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • conduct textile testing operations
  • evaluate textile characteristics
  • health and safety in the textile industry
  • properties of textile materials
  • research and development in textiles
  • textile chemistry

What stands in the way is 8 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 8 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 screen making technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held research and development in textiles engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held textile chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held textile printing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held health and safety in the textile industry services
  • already held conduct textile testing operations information skills
  • already held evaluate textile characteristics information skills

All 8 carried skills, including the 8 the textile chemist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 12 missing skills fall into 6 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 dyeing technology required
  • required, not held textile finishing technology required
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required
  • required, not held design warp knit fabrics required
  • required, not held design yarns required
03 information skills 2 required
  • required, not held develop specifications of technical textiles required
  • required, not held maintain work standards required
04 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
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held control textile process required
06 handling and moving 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held develop textile colouring recipes optional
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 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held conduct textile testing operations skill
  • already held evaluate textile characteristics skill
  • already held health and safety in the textile industry knowledge
  • already held properties of textile materials knowledge
  • already held research and development in textiles knowledge
  • already held textile chemistry knowledge
  • already held textile printing technology knowledge
  • already held textile technologies knowledge
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held develop textile colouring recipes optional
  • optional, not held manufacture man-made fibres optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
13 held skills the textile chemist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role 3D printing process knowledge
  • not needed by the target role bundle fabrics skill
  • not needed by the target role cut textiles skill
  • not needed by the target role decorate textile articles skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain control systems for automated equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role operate screen printing equipment for textiles skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee the design of touristic publications skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee the printing of touristic publications skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare equipment for textile printing skill
  • not needed by the target role printing techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role tend textile printing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role textile industry knowledge
4 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 dyeing technology required
  • required, not held textile finishing technology required
  • optional, not held challenging issues in the textile industry optional
  • optional, not held nonwoven machine technology optional
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.