From footwear product developer to leather goods product developer
14 of the 21 essential skills of a leather goods product developer are already essential for a footwear product developer — about 67% 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.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 67%
- of the target job covered
- 21
- essential skills of a leather goods product developer
What a leather goods product developer does
Leather goods product developers perform and interface between design and actual production. They analyse and study designer’s specifications and transform them into technical requirements, updating concepts to manufacturing lines, selecting or even designing components and selecting materials. Leather goods product developers also perform the pattern engineering, namely they make patterns manually and produce technical drawings for various range of tools, especially cutting. They evaluate prototypes, performing required tests for samples and confirming the customer’s quality requirements and pricing constrains.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply development process to footwear design
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear creation process
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a leather goods product developer and not for a footwear product developer. 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 footwear product developer
2 roles- footwear designer25 skills in common
- footwear product development manager25 skills in common
← footwear product developerleather goods product developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a leather goods product developer?
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.