From footwear designer to leather goods designer
11 of the 18 essential skills of a leather goods designer are already essential for a footwear designer — about 61% 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.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 61%
- of the target job covered
- 18
- essential skills of a leather goods designer
What a leather goods designer does
Leather goods designers are in charge of the creative process of leather goods. They perform fashion trends analysis, accompany market researches and forecast needs, plan and develop collections, create concepts and build the collection lines. They additionally conduct the sampling, create prototypes or samples for presentation and promote concepts and collections. During the collection development, they define the mood and the concept board, the colour palettes, the materials and produce drawings and sketches. Leather goods designers identify the range of materials and components and define the design specifications. They collaborate with the technical team.
What carries over
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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
7 skillsEssential for a leather goods designer and not for a footwear designer. 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 footwear designer
2 roles- footwear product developer25 skills in common
- footwear product development manager20 skills in common
← footwear designerleather goods designer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a leather goods designer?
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.