From leaf sorter to curing room worker
14 of the 31 essential skills of a curing room worker are already essential for a leaf sorter — about 45% 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
- 17
- would be new
- 45%
- of the target job covered
- 31
- essential skills of a curing room worker
What a curing room worker does
Curing room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.
What carries over
14 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
- blend tobacco leaves
- curing methods for tobacco leaves
- history of tobacco
- manufacturing of smoked tobacco products
- manufacturing of smokeless tobacco products
- quality prototype of a tobacco leaf
- sort tobacco leaves
- variety of tobacco leaves
What would be new
17 skillsEssential for a curing room worker and not for a leaf sorter. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- air-cure tobacco
- assess fermentation levels of tobacco leaves
- be at ease in unsafe environments
- cure tobacco leaves
- cut tobacco leaves
- dry tobacco leaves
- ferment stacks of tobacco leaves
- fermentation process of tobacco leaves
- flavour tobacco leaves
- flue-cure tobacco
- follow production schedule
- operate tobacco drying technology
- perform kiln fermentation of tobacco leaves
- perform tobacco leaves conditioning
- pre-blend tobacco leaves
- sun-cure tobacco
- tie tobacco leaves in hands
Other moves from leaf sorter
2 roles- cigar inspector17 skills in common
- leaf tier14 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a curing room worker?
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.