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

textile dyertoprinting textile technician

A textile dyer already meets 50% of what the printing textile technician role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.

From textile dyer
50%
Overlap1
To printing textile technician
7 Skills carried over
4 Required, not held
44.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

50%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

44.3/ 100

1 Share of the printing textile technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the textile dyer 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 printing textile technician role treats 5 of its required skills as things a textile dyer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • conduct textile testing operations
  • design yarns
  • dyeing technology
  • maintain work standards
  • textile chemistry

What stands in the way is 4 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 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A printing textile technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a textile dyer 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 finishing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held dyeing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held conduct textile testing operations information skills

All 7 carried skills, including the 5 the printing textile technician 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 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held decorate textile articles required
  • optional, not held tend textile printing machines optional
  • optional, not held prepare equipment for textile printing optional
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held textile printing technology required
  • optional, not held textile technologies optional
03 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held evaluate textile characteristics required
04 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held control textile process required
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held design woven fabrics optional
  • optional, not held draw sketches to develop textile articles optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a printing textile technician 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 7 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held conduct textile testing operations skill
  • already held design yarns skill
  • already held dyeing technology knowledge
  • already held maintain work standards skill
  • already held textile chemistry knowledge
  • already held develop textile colouring recipes skill
  • already held textile finishing technology knowledge
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held design woven fabrics optional
  • optional, not held draw sketches to develop textile articles optional
  • optional, not held tend textile printing machines optional
  • optional, not held prepare equipment for textile printing optional
  • optional, not held textile technologies optional
10 held skills the printing textile technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role apply colouring recipes skill
  • not needed by the target role challenging issues in the textile industry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health and safety in the textile industry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manufacture knitted textiles skill
  • not needed by the target role manufacture woven fabrics skill
  • not needed by the target role properties of textile materials knowledge
  • not needed by the target role tend textile dyeing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role tend textile finishing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role tend textile washing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role use textile finishing machine technologies skill
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 textile printing technology required
  • optional, not held textile technologies optional
Index

Other moves recorded from textile dyer

Full index of moves from textile dyer

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.