Precious stone cutter to filigree maker
A precious stone cutter already meets 61% of what the filigree maker role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
43.6/ 100
1 How much of what a filigree maker is expected to do is already part of a precious stone cutter’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the filigree maker role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A filigree maker role treats 10 of its required skills as things a precious stone cutter already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- adjust jewellery
- clean jewellery pieces
- create jewellery
- ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
- jewellery processes
- repair jewellery
What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 27 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A filigree maker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a precious stone cutter background worth leading with.
- already held perform enamelling constructing
- already held smoothen rough jewel parts handling and moving
- already held maintain jewels and watches handling and moving
- already held repair jewellery handling and moving
- already held cultured pearls arts and humanities
- already held jewellery product categories arts and humanities
All 27 carried skills, including the 10 the filigree maker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn heat jewellery metals required
- still to learn mark designs on metal pieces required
- still to learn mount stones in jewels required
- still to learn select metals for jewellery required
- optional, not held build jewellery models optional
- optional, not held cast jewellery metal optional
- optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
- still to learn operate soldering equipment required
- still to learn operate welding equipment required
- still to learn perform metal work required
- still to learn perform damascening required
- still to learn apply precision metalworking techniques required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a filigree maker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 heat jewellery metals practise this
- 02 mark designs on metal pieces practise this
- 03 mount stones in jewels practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 27 skills that carry over
- already held adjust jewellery skill
- already held clean jewellery pieces skill
- already held create jewellery skill
- already held ensure conformance to jewel design specifications skill
- already held jewellery processes knowledge
- already held repair jewellery skill
- already held select gems for jewellery skill
- already held smoothen rough jewel parts skill
- already held use jewellery equipment skill
- already held use precision tools skill
- already held advise customers on jewellery and watches skill
- already held apply restoration techniques skill
- already held coining knowledge
- already held cultured pearls knowledge
- already held develop jewellery designs skill
- already held estimate cost of jewellery and watches' maintenance skill
- already held estimate restoration costs skill
- already held evaluate restoration procedures skill
- already held imitation jewellery knowledge
- already held jewellery product categories knowledge
- already held maintain jewels and watches skill
- already held pass on trade techniques skill
- already held perform enamelling skill
- already held record jewel processing time skill
- already held record jewel weight skill
- already held select restoration activities skill
- already held watches and jewellery products knowledge
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held build jewellery models optional
- optional, not held cast jewellery metal optional
- optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
18 held skills the filigree maker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role attend to detail regarding jewellery creation skill
- not needed by the target role calculate value of gems skill
- not needed by the target role characteristics of diamonds knowledge
- not needed by the target role cut gem stones skill
- not needed by the target role detect product defects skill
- not needed by the target role estimate value of used jewellery and watches skill
- not needed by the target role examine gems skill
- not needed by the target role gem cutting forms knowledge
- not needed by the target role gemstones knowledge
- not needed by the target role grind gemstones skill
- not needed by the target role manufacturing of jewellery knowledge
- not needed by the target role operate microscope skill
- not needed by the target role polish gemstones skill
- not needed by the target role sand gemstones skill
- not needed by the target role tend tumbling machine skill
- not needed by the target role think creatively about jewellery skill
- not needed by the target role use specialised equipment skill
- not needed by the target role wet tumbling knowledge
Other moves recorded from precious stone cutter
Common questions about this move
Can a precious stone cutter become a filigree maker?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A precious stone cutter already covers 61% of what a filigree maker is expected to do: 27 skills carry over, 10 of which the filigree maker role treats as required.
What skills does a precious stone cutter need to become a filigree maker?
9 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by handling and moving. The single most important is heat jewellery metals.
How hard is the move from precious stone cutter to filigree maker?
Its learning distance is 43.6 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.