Occupation Atlascarpet weaver
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b3cd0522-14a9-4e21-a7ee-c9a1f9c0de51
carpet weaver
Carpet weavers operate machinery to create textile floor coverings. They create carpets and rugs from wool or synthetic textiles using specialised equipment. Carpet weavers can use diverse methods such as weaving, knotting or tufting to create carpets of different styles.
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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 Artistic5.93
- R Realistic5.89
- E Enterprising2.86
- C Conventional2.66
- I Investigative1.85
- S Social1.68
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 Craft Artists (27-1012.00): 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 (17)
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.
- cut textiles
- ensure health and safety in manufacturing
- functionalities of machinery
- furniture, carpet and lighting equipment products
- maintain machinery
- manufacture carpets
- manufacture textile floor coverings
- place orders for textile materials
- produce textile designs
- properties of textile materials
- textile industry
- textile industry machinery products
- textile techniques
- textile technologies
- types of carpet
- types of textile fibres
- work in textile manufacturing teams
Optional (10)
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 17 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
knitting machine operator
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carpet handicraft worker
6 shared · 5 more of its owntypes of carpet, manufacture textile floor coverings, produce textile designs, types of textile fibres
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tufting operator
3 shared · 5 more of its ownmanufacture textile floor coverings, textile techniques, textile industry machinery products
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knitter
3 shared · 7 more of its owntypes of textile fibres, cut textiles, properties of textile materials
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mattress making machine operator
3 shared · 7 more of its owncut textiles, functionalities of machinery, properties of textile materials
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textile pattern making machine operator
3 shared · 8 more of its ownproduce textile designs, textile techniques, properties of textile materials
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weaving machine operator
3 shared · 8 more of its ownmanufacture textile floor coverings, types of textile fibres, work in textile manufacturing teams
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textile sourcing merchandiser
3 shared · 12 more of its ownplace orders for textile materials, textile technologies, properties of textile materials
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