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

printing textile techniciantotextile colourist

A printing textile technician already meets 63% of what the textile colourist role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.

From printing textile technician
63%
Overlap1
To textile colourist
8 Skills carried over
4 Required, not held
33 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

63%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

33/ 100

1 Share of the textile colourist 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 colourist role treats 7 of its required skills as things a printing textile technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • design yarns
  • develop textile colouring recipes
  • draw sketches to develop textile articles
  • dyeing technology
  • maintain work standards
  • prepare equipment for textile printing

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 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A textile colourist 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 prepare equipment for textile printing working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held draw sketches to develop textile articles communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held textile chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held dyeing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction

All 8 carried skills, including the 7 the textile colourist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 5 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 1 required
  • required, not held portfolio management in textile manufacturing required
02 handling and moving 1 required
  • required, not held use textile technique for hand-made products required
03 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held seek innovation in current practices required
04 working with computers 1 required
  • required, not held draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares required
05 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held textile marketing techniques optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a textile colourist 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 design yarns skill
  • already held develop textile colouring recipes skill
  • already held draw sketches to develop textile articles skill
  • already held dyeing technology knowledge
  • already held maintain work standards skill
  • already held prepare equipment for textile printing skill
  • already held textile chemistry knowledge
  • already held conduct textile testing operations skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held textile marketing techniques optional
8 held skills the textile colourist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role control textile process skill
  • 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 evaluate textile characteristics skill
  • not needed by the target role tend textile printing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role textile finishing technology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role textile printing technology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role textile technologies knowledge
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 portfolio management in textile manufacturing required
  • optional, not held textile marketing techniques 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.