Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a goldsmith can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a goldsmith already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Goldsmiths design, manufacture and sell jewellery. They also adjust, repair and appraise gems and jewellery for customers using experience in the working of gold and other precious metals.

Also known as gold ring maker, gold earrings fabricator, gold earrings maker, boutique goldsmith, goldsmiths, gold jewellery fabricator, gold ring fabricator, gold jewel smith, silver smith, gold jewellery maker.

Craft and related trades workers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: jewellery assembler, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
jeweller 78% covered jewellery mounter 75% covered jewellery assembler 80% covered filigree maker 70% covered jewellery designer 55% covered goldsmith You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from goldsmith, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a goldsmith already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A goldsmith needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • pour molten metal into moulds handling and moving
  • apply smithing techniques handling and moving
  • cast jewellery metal handling and moving
  • smoothen rough jewel parts handling and moving
  • build jewellery models handling and moving
  • heat jewellery metals handling and moving
  • select metals for jewellery handling and moving
  • create jewellery handling and moving
  • select gems for jewellery handling and moving
  • characteristics of precious metals arts and humanities
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a goldsmith does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Goldsmith is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a goldsmith’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.