Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a precious stone cutter can go next

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

Precious stone cutters use cutting machines and tools to cut or carve diamonds and other gemstones according to diagrams and patterns while considering different specifications. They are experts at fabricating jewellery such as rings, brooches, chains and bracelets from gemstones.

Also known as lapidarist, gemstone cutter, gemcutter, lapidary, faceter, gem cutter, opal polisher, diamond cutter, jewelery fabricator.

Craft and related trades workers 45 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: precious stone setter, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
precious stone setter 77% covered jewellery assembler 64% covered jewellery polisher 62% covered jeweller 61% covered filigree maker 61% covered precious stone cutter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from precious stone cutter, 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 precious stone cutter 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 precious stone cutter needs 14 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
  • gem cutting forms arts and humanities
  • grind gemstones handling and moving
  • cut gem stones handling and moving
  • attend to detail regarding jewellery creation handling and moving
  • characteristics of diamonds engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • examine gems information skills
  • gemstones arts and humanities
  • calculate value of gems information skills
  • record jewel weight information skills
  • manufacturing of jewellery arts and humanities
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Precious stone cutter 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 precious stone cutter’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.