Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

precious stone cuttertoprecious stone setter

A precious stone cutter already meets 77% of what the precious stone setter role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

From precious stone cutter
77%
Overlap1
To precious stone setter
23 Skills carried over
3 Required, not held
24.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

77%

Learning distance Short step

24.3/ 100

1 Share of the precious stone setter role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the precious stone cutter profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A precious stone setter role treats 10 of its required skills as things a precious stone cutter already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • attend to detail regarding jewellery creation
  • characteristics of diamonds
  • ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
  • examine gems
  • gemstones
  • jewellery processes

What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 23 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A precious stone setter 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.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held attend to detail regarding jewellery creation handling and moving
  • already held characteristics of diamonds engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held examine gems information skills
  • already held gemstones arts and humanities
  • already held detect product defects information skills
  • already held think creatively about jewellery communication, collaboration and creativity

All 23 carried skills, including the 10 the precious stone setter role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 7 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 handling and moving 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held mount stones in jewels required
  • required, not held assemble jewellery parts required
  • optional, not held heat jewellery metals optional
  • optional, not held select metals for jewellery optional
  • optional, not held cut metal products optional
02 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held characteristics of precious metals required
03 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held exercise patience optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a precious stone setter role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 23 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held attend to detail regarding jewellery creation skill
  • already held characteristics of diamonds knowledge
  • already held ensure conformance to jewel design specifications skill
  • already held examine gems skill
  • already held gemstones knowledge
  • already held jewellery processes knowledge
  • already held manufacturing of jewellery knowledge
  • already held record jewel weight skill
  • already held use jewellery equipment skill
  • already held use precision tools skill
  • already held adjust jewellery skill
  • already held clean jewellery pieces skill
  • already held create jewellery skill
  • already held cultured pearls knowledge
  • already held detect product defects skill
  • already held develop jewellery designs skill
  • already held operate microscope skill
  • already held record jewel processing time skill
  • already held repair jewellery skill
  • already held select gems for jewellery skill
  • already held think creatively about jewellery skill
  • already held use specialised equipment skill
  • already held watches and jewellery products knowledge
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held heat jewellery metals optional
  • optional, not held select metals for jewellery optional
  • optional, not held cut metal products optional
  • optional, not held exercise patience optional
22 held skills the precious stone setter role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise customers on jewellery and watches skill
  • not needed by the target role apply restoration techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role calculate value of gems skill
  • not needed by the target role coining knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cut gem stones skill
  • not needed by the target role estimate cost of jewellery and watches' maintenance skill
  • not needed by the target role estimate restoration costs skill
  • not needed by the target role estimate value of used jewellery and watches skill
  • not needed by the target role evaluate restoration procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role gem cutting forms knowledge
  • not needed by the target role grind gemstones skill
  • not needed by the target role imitation jewellery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role jewellery product categories knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain jewels and watches skill
  • not needed by the target role pass on trade techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role perform enamelling 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 select restoration activities skill
  • not needed by the target role smoothen rough jewel parts skill
  • not needed by the target role tend tumbling machine skill
  • not needed by the target role wet tumbling knowledge
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held characteristics of precious metals required
Index
Note

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.