From leather goods designer to footwear product developer
12 of the 34 essential skills of a footwear product developer are already essential for a leather goods designer — about 35% 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.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 22
- would be new
- 35%
- of the target job covered
- 34
- essential skills of a footwear product developer
What a footwear product developer does
Footwear product developers provide interface between design and production. They engineer the footwear prototypes previously created by designers. They select, design or re-design lasts and footwear components, make patterns for uppers, linings and bottom components, and produce technical drawings for a various range of tools, e.g. cutting dies, mould, etc. They also produce and evaluate footwear prototypes, grade and produce sizing samples, perform required tests for samples and confirm the customer’s qualitative and pricing constraints.
What carries over
12 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
- create mood boards
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- 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
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
What would be new
22 skillsEssential for a footwear product developer and not for a leather goods designer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse types of footwear
- CAD for footwear
- create patterns for footwear
- create solutions to problems
- create technical sketches for footwear
- develop footwear collection
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- footwear components
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- last types
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- prepare footwear samples
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use CAD for heels
- use CAD for lasts
- use CAD for soles
- work in textile manufacturing teams
Other moves from leather goods designer
2 roles- leather goods product developer17 skills in common
- leather goods product development manager15 skills in common
← leather goods designerfootwear product developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a footwear 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.