From hand lasting operator to orthopaedic footwear technician
10 of the 20 essential skills of a orthopaedic footwear technician are already essential for a hand lasting operator — about 50% 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
- 10
- would be new
- 50%
- of the target job covered
- 20
- essential skills of a orthopaedic footwear technician
What a orthopaedic footwear technician does
Orthopaedic footwear technicians design footwear and make patterns, using manufacturing technology. They compensate and accommodate foot and ankle fitting problems and design and manufacture footwear and its orthopaedic components, including orthoses, insoles, soles and others.
What carries over
10 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 finishing techniques
- apply pre-stitching techniques
- apply stitching techniques
- cut footwear uppers
- footwear components
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a orthopaedic footwear technician and not for a hand lasting operator. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply footwear bottoms pre-assembling techniques
- apply footwear uppers pre-assembling techniques
- create patterns for footwear
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear equipments
- footwear machinery
- manual cutting processes for leather
- perform pattern grading
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
Other moves from hand lasting operator
2 roles- lasting machine operator11 skills in common
- shoemaker10 skills in common
← hand lasting operatororthopaedic footwear technician →The other way round
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How far are you from being a orthopaedic 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.