Education:
58%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
17%
Less than a High School Diploma
Tailors, Dressmakers, & Custom Sewers
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
None
Salary
High:
$54,080.00
Average:
$37,230.00
Hourly
Average:
$17.90
What they do:
Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.
On the job, you would:
- Measure parts, such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
- Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
- Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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78% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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76% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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76% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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72% | Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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71% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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70% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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69% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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69% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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68% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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66% | Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. | |
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65% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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95% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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72% | Visualization - The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |
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72% | Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |
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72% | Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |
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69% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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66% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Measure clients to ensure proper product fit.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Operate sewing equipment.
Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Operate sewing equipment.
Repair textiles or apparel.
Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Repair textiles or apparel.
Adjust fabrics or other materials during garment production.
Smooth garments with irons, presses, or steamers.
Trim excess material from workpieces.
Design templates or patterns.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Measure clients to ensure proper product fit.
Record operational or production data.
Estimate costs of products, services, or materials.
Repair textiles or apparel.
Confer with customers or designers to determine order specifications.
Cut fabrics.
Position patterns on equipment, materials, or workpieces.
Sew clothing or other articles.
Adjust fabrics or other materials during garment production.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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96% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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88% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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88% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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85% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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84% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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78% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results - What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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76% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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75% | Deal With External Customers - How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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73% | Structured versus Unstructured Work - To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
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71% | Frequency of Decision Making - How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? | |
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71% | Spend Time Sitting - How much does this job require sitting? | |
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70% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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69% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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68% | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment - How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) | |
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67% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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71% | Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |