| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Fashion Designer |
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
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- Test fabrics or oversee testing so that garment care labels can be created.
- Sketch rough and detailed drawings of apparel or accessories, and write specifications such as color schemes, construction, material types, and accessory requirements.
- Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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| Fashion Sales Representative |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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- Prepare drawings, estimates, and bids that meet specific customer needs.
- Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.
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| Merchandiser |
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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- Construct or assemble displays and display components from fabric, glass, paper, and plastic, using hand tools and woodworking power tools, according to specifications.
- Consult with advertising and sales staff to determine type of merchandise to be featured and time and place for each display.
- Arrange properties, furniture, merchandise, backdrops, and other accessories, as shown in prepared sketches.
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