Occupation Atlasfootwear designer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/06f89f2c-c6e9-40c5-a4a5-0e34d5fbc184
footwear designer
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
AREArtistic · Realistic · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic7.00
- R Realistic4.34
- E Enterprising3.96
- C Conventional2.94
- S Social2.35
- I Investigative2.17
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Fashion Designers (27-1022.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (25)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse types of footwear
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create mood boards
- create patterns for footwear
- create technical sketches for footwear
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- last types
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use IT tools
- use communication techniques
- work in textile manufacturing teams
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 25 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
footwear product developer
25 shared · 9 more of its ownperform market research in footwear, last types, develop footwear collection, analyse types of footwear
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footwear product development manager
20 shared · 7 more of its ownperform market research in footwear, develop footwear collection, footwear and leather goods marketing planning, create patterns for footwear
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footwear CAD patternmaker
11 shared · 1 more of its ownlast types, analyse types of footwear, create patterns for footwear, perform pattern grading
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leather goods designer
11 shared · 7 more of its ownfootwear and leather goods marketing planning, develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans, implement footwear marketing plan, create mood boards
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leather goods product developer
11 shared · 10 more of its ownfootwear and leather goods marketing planning, develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans, implement footwear marketing plan, apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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leather goods product development manager
11 shared · 13 more of its ownfootwear and leather goods marketing planning, develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans, implement footwear marketing plan, apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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footwear quality technician
10 shared · 4 more of its ownanalyse types of footwear, communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages, footwear manufacturing technology, footwear components
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footwear quality manager
10 shared · 5 more of its owninnovate in footwear and leather goods industry, communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages, footwear manufacturing technology, footwear components
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