Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a jewellery repairer can go next

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

Jewellery repairers use specialised hand tools to carry out adjustments and repairs to all types of jewellery pieces. They resize rings or necklaces, reset gems, and repair broken jewellery parts. Jewellery repairers identify the suitable precious metals to be used as replacements, solder and smooth joints. They clean and polish the repaired pieces to be returned to the customer.

Also known as jewelry repairer, jewerly repair technician, jewellery repair technician, jewellery hammersmith, adornment repairer.

Craft and related trades workers 37 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: jewellery mounter, 67%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
jewellery mounter 67% covered jeweller 53% covered jewellery assembler 52% covered consumer electronics repair t… 46% covered silversmith 44% covered jewellery repairer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from jewellery repairer, 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 repairer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A jewellery repairer needs 15 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
  • assemble jewellery parts handling and moving
  • mount stones in jewels handling and moving
  • repair jewellery handling and moving
  • heat jewellery metals handling and moving
  • precious metals engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • adjust jewellery handling and moving
  • clean jewellery pieces handling and moving
  • use jewellery equipment handling and moving
  • jewellery processes arts and humanities
  • provide customer information related to repairs communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Jewellery repairer 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 repairer’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.