Clothing Trades Workers prepare and cut garment patterns and fabric, and make and repair garments. This occupation group covers Clothing Trades Workers not elsewhere classified.
Occupation description
Clothing Trades Workers prepare and cut garment patterns and fabric, and make and repair garments.
This occupation group covers Clothing Trades Workers not elsewhere classified.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Milliner
Clothing Trades Workers nec is a VETASSESS Group D occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Certificate III or higher. Applicants can fulfil the assessment criteria for this occupation in four different ways.
* Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
Pathways 1–3
minimum years of post-qualification employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
Pathway 4
minimum 4 years of relevant employment required – Three years of relevant employment (can be outside the last 5-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
A positive assessment of both qualification level and employment duration is required for a positive Skills Assessment outcome.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
Highly relevant major fields of study include:
• Clothing production
• Textiles
• Fashion Design
Consideration can be made on a case-by-case basis for the qualification major to be relevant if it is related to the subsequent employment context and if the employment assessment is considered highly relevant and assessed positively.
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Certificate III or higher and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Employment Criteria
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Conferring with customers to determine material, styles and designs of garments
- Interpreting designs, sketches and samples to determine pattern specifications
- Cutting out master patterns
- Laying up and cutting fabric
- Pinning, basting and draping garment parts
- Sewing garments
- Fitting basted garments on customers and marking areas requiring alteration
- Sewing buttonholes, and sewing on buttons, hooks, eyes and press fasteners to finish garments
- Pressing and finishing work
It is essential for applicants to meet the following employment criteria:
- at least one year of post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level,
- undertaken in the last five years,
- working 20 hours or more per week, and
- highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
If the qualification is not in a highly relevant field, then the applicant must have:
- two years of post-qualification employment experience at an appropriate skill level,
- undertaken in the last five years,
- working 20 hours or more per week, and
- highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
If the applicant holds a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Certificate III in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation, then three years of highly relevant employment undertaken in the last five years is required.
If employment has occurred before completion of qualification, then three years of highly relevant employment experience are required in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years.
Please note in order to achieve a successful Skills Assessment Outcome, a positive assessment for both qualifications and employment is required.
nec means "not elsewhere classified".
Applicants should include a cover letter that justifies the rationale for choosing an nec category.
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