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O*NET detailed work activityAssemble garments or textile products
Stays humanHands-on work
5 jobs9 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Assemble products or work aids, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Build furniture up with loose fiber stuffing, cotton, felt, or foam padding to form smooth, rounded surfaces.
- Test patterns by making and fitting sample garments.
- Cement, nail, or sew soles and heels to shoes.
- Attach insoles to shoe lasts, affix shoe uppers, and apply heels and outsoles.
- Nail heel and toe cleats onto shoes.
- Prepare inserts, heel pads, and lifts from casts of customers' feet.
- Staple sides of shoes, pressing a foot treadle to position and hold each shoe under the feeder of the machine.
- Hammer loose staples for proper attachment.
- Tie, knit, weave or knot ribbon, yarn, or decorative materials.