From shoemaker to bespoke footwear technician
16 of the 22 essential skills of a bespoke footwear technician are already essential for a shoemaker — about 73% 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
- 6
- would be new
- 73%
- of the target job covered
- 22
- essential skills of a bespoke footwear technician
What a bespoke footwear technician does
Bespoke footwear technicians perform activities in small production environments, e.g. workshops, where footwear is typically custom-made. They design, prepare, cut and sew, assemble and finish custom made footwear.
What carries over
16 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply assembling techniques for cemented footwear construction
- apply basic rules of maintenance to leather goods and footwear machinery
- apply footwear bottoms pre-assembling techniques
- apply footwear uppers pre-assembling techniques
- apply pre-stitching techniques
- apply stitching techniques
- create patterns for footwear
- cut footwear uppers
- footwear components
- footwear equipments
- footwear machinery
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- manual cutting processes for leather
- perform pattern grading
What would be new
6 skillsEssential for a bespoke footwear technician and not for a shoemaker. 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 shoemaker
2 roles- orthopaedic footwear technician17 skills in common
- sole and heel operator11 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a bespoke footwear technician?
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.