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

screen making techniciantotextile printer

A screen making technician already meets 42% of what the textile printer role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.

From screen making technician
42%
Overlap1
To textile printer
5 Skills carried over
5 Required, not held
49.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

42%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

49.5/ 100

1 Share of the textile printer 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 printer role treats 4 of its required skills as things a screen making technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • decorate textile articles
  • prepare equipment for textile printing
  • tend textile printing machines
  • textile printing technology

What stands in the way is 5 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 5 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A textile printer 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 prepare equipment for textile printing working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held tend textile printing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held textile printing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held decorate textile articles working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held conduct textile testing operations information skills

All 5 carried skills, including the 4 the textile printer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 8 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
  • required, not held textile finishing technology required
  • required, not held portfolio management in textile manufacturing required
02 information skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain work standards required
  • optional, not held test physical properties of textiles optional
03 handling and moving 1 required
  • required, not held use textile technique for hand-made products required
04 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held control textile process required
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held draw sketches to develop textile articles optional
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held manufacture braided products optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a textile printer 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 5 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held decorate textile articles skill
  • already held prepare equipment for textile printing skill
  • already held tend textile printing machines skill
  • already held textile printing technology knowledge
  • already held conduct textile testing operations skill
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held draw sketches to develop textile articles optional
  • optional, not held manufacture braided products optional
  • optional, not held test physical properties of textiles optional
16 held skills the textile printer 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 evaluate textile characteristics skill
  • not needed by the target role health and safety in the textile industry knowledge
  • 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 printing techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role properties of textile materials knowledge
  • not needed by the target role research and development in textiles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role textile chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role textile industry 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 textile finishing technology required
  • required, not held portfolio management in textile manufacturing required
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.