From textile technologist to textile product developer
10 of the 24 essential skills of a textile product developer are already essential for a textile technologist — about 42% 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.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 14
- would be new
- 42%
- of the target job covered
- 24
- essential skills of a textile product developer
What a textile product developer does
Textile product developers innovate and perform product design of apparel textiles, home textiles, and technical textiles (e.g. agriculture, safety, construction, medicine, mobile tech, environmental protection, sports, etc.). They apply scientific and technical principles to develop innovative textile products.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- braiding technology
- conduct textile testing operations
- develop specifications of technical textiles
- distinguish accessories
- health and safety in the textile industry
- properties of textile materials
- research and development in textiles
- textile printing technology
- textile technologies
- use textile technique for hand-made products
What would be new
14 skillsEssential for a textile product developer and not for a textile technologist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- challenging issues in the textile industry
- decorate textile articles
- design warp knit fabrics
- design weft knitted fabrics
- design woven fabrics
- distinguish fabrics
- draw sketches to develop textile articles
- draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares
- maintain work standards
- measure yarn count
- nonwoven machine technology
- portfolio management in textile manufacturing
- textile marketing techniques
- use textile finishing machine technologies
Other moves from textile technologist
1 roles- textile chemist10 skills in common
← textile technologisttextile product developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a textile 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.