From curing room worker to leaf tier
16 of the 23 essential skills of a leaf tier are already essential for a curing room worker — about 70% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 16
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 70%
- of the target job covered
- 23
- essential skills of a leaf tier
What a leaf tier does
Leaf tiers tie tobacco leaves manually into bundles for processing. They select loose leaves by hand and arrange them with butt ends together. They wind tie leaf around butts.
What carries over
16 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- assess nicotine levels in tobacco leaves
- assess sugar levels in tobacco leaves
- assess the colour curing of tobacco leaves
- cure tobacco leaves
- curing methods for tobacco leaves
- dry tobacco leaves
- manufacturing of smoked tobacco products
- manufacturing of smokeless tobacco products
- operate tobacco drying technology
- perform tobacco leaves conditioning
- pre-blend tobacco leaves
- tie tobacco leaves in hands
- variety of tobacco leaves
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a leaf tier and not for a curing room worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from curing room worker
2 roles- cigarette making machine operator25 skills in common
- leaf sorter14 skills in common
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How far are you from being a leaf tier?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.