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Sewers, Hand

$31.53K Median Salary 800 Job Openings (Annual Projection) -10.1% Job Growth

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About This Career

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish, usually with needle and thread, a variety of manufactured items. Includes weavers and stitchers.

Reported Job Titles

Alteration Specialist, Couturier, Custom Clothier, Custom Designer, Custom Seamstress, Designer, Dressmaker, Seamstress

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Abilities

Arm-Hand Steadiness

Finger Dexterity

Manual Dexterity

Near Vision

Control Precision

Visualization

Category Flexibility

Information Ordering

Multilimb Coordination

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service

Design

Production and Processing

Sales and Marketing

Mathematics

Skills

Judgment and Decision Making

Technology Skills

Graphics or photo imaging software

Presentation software

Computer aided design CAD software

Spreadsheet software

Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

Office suite software

Tools

Dressmakers ruler

Awls

Fids

Shears

Seam ripper

Embroidery making machines

Straight pins

Tape measures

Needle threader

Notebook computers

Domestic clothing irons

Thimbles

Squares

Laser printers

Punches or nail sets or drifts

Seam gauge

Utility knives

Sewing needles

Tablet computers

Abilities

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.
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.
Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Skills

Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Technology Skills

Graphics or photo imaging software: SmugMug Flickr
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Computer aided design CAD software: Autodesk AutoCAD; Autodesk Revit
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Optical character reader OCR or scanning software: Text scanning software
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software

Tools

Dressmakers ruler: Curve sticks; Hip curve rulers; See-through rulers; Yard sticks
Awls: Punching awls
Fids:
Shears: Metal shears
Seam ripper: Seam rippers
Embroidery making machines: Embroidery machines
Straight pins: Steel straight pins
Tape measures: Diameter tape measures
Needle threader: Drawstring threaders
Notebook computers: Laptop computers
Domestic clothing irons: Pressing equipment
Thimbles:
Squares:
Laser printers: Computer laser printers
Punches or nail sets or drifts: Mini punch sets
Seam gauge: Seam allowance gauges
Utility knives: Precision knives
Sewing needles:
Tablet computers:

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