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sewing machinist

Sewing machinists sew components of wearing apparel together. They can repair and renovate wearing apparel by hand or by using different sewing machines.

Job Zone 2 — Some Preparation NeededHolland code RCA14 skills on file

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Job Zone

Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed

Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RCARealistic · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order

R Realistic6.78
C Conventional3.97
A Artistic1.75
I Investigative1.37
S Social1.16
E Enterprising1.15

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 Sewing Machine Operators (51-6031.00): 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 (12)

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.

Optional (2)

O*NET equivalents

From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.

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ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 12 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.

sewing machine operator
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tailor
9 shared · 19 more of its ownbuttonholing, alter wearing apparel, manufacture wearing apparel products, operate garment manufacturing machines
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wearing apparel patternmaker
8 shared · 13 more of its ownalter wearing apparel, manufacture wearing apparel products, manufacturing of made-up textile articles, manufacturing of wearing apparel
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clothing technologist
8 shared · 24 more of its ownalter wearing apparel, manufacture wearing apparel products, manufacturing of made-up textile articles, manufacturing of wearing apparel
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7 shared · 11 more of its ownalter wearing apparel, manufacturing of made-up textile articles, manufacturing of wearing apparel, operate garment manufacturing machines
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6 shared · 2 more of its ownmanufacture wearing apparel products, manufacturing of made-up textile articles, manufacturing of wearing apparel, sew textile-based articles
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This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.