Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as jewelery repairer, barrel polishing machine operative, jewelry polishing machine operator, jewelry polishing machine setter, jewellery polishing machine operative, barrel polishing machine worker, barrel polishing machine operator, jewellery polishing machine worker, barrel polishing machine tender, jewellery polishing machine setter, jewellery polishing machine operator, jewellery polishing machine tender.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from jewellery polisher, 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 jewellery polisher already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A jewellery polisher needs 9 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • buffing motions engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • grind gemstones handling and moving
  • sand gemstones handling and moving
  • polish gemstones handling and moving
  • gemstones arts and humanities
  • clean jewellery pieces handling and moving
  • use jewellery equipment handling and moving
  • ensure conformance to jewel design specifications information skills
  • jewellery processes arts and humanities
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a jewellery polisher’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.