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Where a footwear patternmaker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a footwear patternmaker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Footwear patternmakers design and cut patterns for all kinds of footwear using a variety of hand and simple machine tools. They check various nesting variants and perform material consumption estimation. Once the sample model has been approved for production, they produce series of patterns for range of footwear in different sizes.

Highest coverage recorded: 79%
Destinations: 5each with a full record
Within reach: 4difficulty under 55
Skills on file: 22required or supplementary

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

footwear product developer 54% covered · difficulty 56.4

Index

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footwear patternmaker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a footwear patternmaker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.