Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a jewellery polisher can go next

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

Jewellery polishers ensure that finished jewellery pieces are cleaned by customer demand or prepared for sale. They may also perform minor repairs. They use either hand tools such as files and emery paper buff sticks and/or hand held polishing machines. They also use mechanised polishing machines such as barrel polishers.

Craft and related trades workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: metal polisher, 37%

metal polisher 37% covered jewellery mounter 34% covered precious stone cutter 29% covered metal planer operator 26% covered nailing machine operator 26% covered jewellery polisher You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from jewellery polisher. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a jewellery polisher already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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jewellery polisher 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a jewellery polisher already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.