Fashion Designer Job Outlook 2019

Knowledge

These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.

Technical design

86% Skill level

Design techniques, tools, and principles used to make detailed technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Engineering and technology

73% Skill level

Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.
Mechanical

68% Skill level

Machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Computers and electronics

58% Skill level

Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Production and processing

58% Skill level

Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.
English language

54% Skill level

English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Mathematics

53% Skill level

Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.
The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.
Administration and management

45% Skill level

Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.
Sales and marketing

42% Skill level

Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Chemistry

41% Skill level

Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.
Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.
Customer and personal service

35% Skill level

Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.
Education and training

35% Skill level

Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Building and construction

34% Skill level

Materials, and methods used to construct or repair houses, buildings, or other structures like highways and roads.
Communications and media

34% Skill level

Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.
Fine arts

31% Skill level

Compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Public safety and security

27% Skill level

Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.
Telecommunications

19% Skill level

Transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Economics and accounting

15% Skill level

Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.

Skills

Skills can be improved through training or experience.

Reading comprehension

63% Skill level

Reading work related information.
Talking to others.
Operations analysis

61% Skill level

Understanding needs and product requirements to create a design.
Active learning

61% Skill level

Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.
Critical thinking

59% Skill level

Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
Active listening

57% Skill level

Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
Writing things for co-workers or customers.
Complex problem solving

55% Skill level

Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Judgment and decision making

54% Skill level

Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.
Monitoring

54% Skill level

Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.
Systems evaluation

54% Skill level

Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Coordination with others

52% Skill level

Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.
Mathematics

52% Skill level

Using maths to solve problems.
Persuasion

52% Skill level

Talking people into changing their minds or their behaviour.
Systems analysis

52% Skill level

Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.
Technology design

52% Skill level

Designing and improving equipment and technology.
Social perceptiveness

48% Skill level

Understanding why people react the way they do.
Time management

48% Skill level

Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.
Instructing

46% Skill level

Teaching people how to do something.
Management of personnel resources

41% Skill level

Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.

Abilities

Workers use these physical and mental abilities.

Originality

70% Skill level

Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.
Deductive reasoning

66% Skill level

Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.
Oral comprehension

63% Skill level

Listen to and understand what people say.
Visualization

63% Skill level

Imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
Oral expression

61% Skill level

Communicate by speaking.
Brainstorming

61% Skill level

Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.
Near vision

59% Skill level

See details that are up-close (within a few feet).
Inductive reasoning

59% Skill level

Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.
Problem spotting

59% Skill level

Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.
Categorising

57% Skill level

Come up with different ways of grouping things.
Sorting or ordering

57% Skill level

Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Written comprehension

57% Skill level

Read and understand written information.
Written expression

55% Skill level

Write in a way that people can understand.
Mathematics

55% Skill level

Choose the right maths method or formula to solve a problem.
Colour discrimination

52% Skill level

Notice differences between colours, including shades of colour and brightness.
Flexibility of closure

52% Skill level

See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.
Speech recognition

50% Skill level

Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Speech clarity

46% Skill level

Speak clearly so others can understand you.
Finger dexterity

46% Skill level

Put together small parts with your fingers.
Selective attention

45% Skill level

Pay attention to something without being distracted.

Activities

These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.

Thinking creatively

75% Skill level

Using your own ideas for developing, designing, or creating something new.
Drafting, laying out, and specifying parts

70% Skill level

Detailing and describing how devices, parts or equipment are to be made, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
Communicating within a team

60% Skill level

Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.
Researching and investigating

59% Skill level

Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.
Keeping your knowledge up-to-date

59% Skill level

Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.
Building good relationships

58% Skill level

Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.
Planning and prioritising work

58% Skill level

Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.
Monitoring people, processes and things

54% Skill level

Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.
Making decisions and solving problems

53% Skill level

Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.
Collecting and organising information

50% Skill level

Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.
Looking for changes over time

50% Skill level

Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.
Communicating with the public

47% Skill level

Giving information to the public, business or government by telephone, in writing, or in person.
Making sense of information and ideas

47% Skill level

Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.
Checking compliance with standards

45% Skill level

Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Working with computers

44% Skill level

Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Documenting or recording information

43% Skill level

Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Explaining things to people

43% Skill level

Helping people to understand and use information.
Estimating amounts, costs and resources

39% Skill level

Working out sizes, distances, amounts, time, costs, resources, or materials needed for a task.
Checking for errors or defects

38% Skill level

Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials for errors, problems or defects.
Coming up with systems and processes

35% Skill level

Deciding on goals and figuring out what you need to do to achieve them.

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