Silversmith to filigree maker
A silversmith already meets 66% of what the filigree maker role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.
37.9/ 100
1 How much of what a filigree maker is expected to do is already part of a silversmith’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 12 of its required skills as things a silversmith already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- adjust jewellery
- clean jewellery pieces
- create jewellery
- ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
- heat jewellery metals
- jewellery processes
What stands in the way is 7 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 silversmith background worth leading with.
- already held perform damascening communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held smoothen rough jewel parts handling and moving
- already held cast jewellery metal handling and moving
- already held maintain jewels and watches handling and moving
- already held mount stones in jewels handling and moving
- already held build jewellery models handling and moving
All 27 carried skills, including the 12 the filigree maker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 5 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 operate soldering equipment required
- still to learn operate welding equipment required
- still to learn perform metal work required
- optional, not held perform enamelling optional
- still to learn mark designs on metal pieces required
- still to learn repair jewellery required
- still to learn use precision tools required
- optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
- still to learn apply precision metalworking techniques required
- optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
- optional, not held cultured pearls optional
- optional, not held coining optional
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 mark designs on metal pieces practise this
- 02 repair jewellery practise this
- 03 apply precision metalworking techniques 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 heat jewellery metals skill
- already held jewellery processes knowledge
- already held mount stones in jewels skill
- already held perform damascening skill
- already held select gems for jewellery skill
- already held select metals for jewellery skill
- already held smoothen rough jewel parts skill
- already held use jewellery equipment skill
- already held advise customers on jewellery and watches skill
- already held apply restoration techniques skill
- already held build jewellery models skill
- already held cast jewellery metal skill
- 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 jewellery product categories knowledge
- already held maintain jewels and watches skill
- already held pass on trade techniques 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
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
- optional, not held perform enamelling optional
- optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
- optional, not held coining optional
- optional, not held cultured pearls optional
11 held skills the filigree maker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply smithing techniques skill
- not needed by the target role characteristics of precious metals knowledge
- not needed by the target role cut metal products skill
- not needed by the target role design objects to be crafted skill
- not needed by the target role electroplating metal materials knowledge
- not needed by the target role electroplating processes knowledge
- not needed by the target role engrave patterns skill
- not needed by the target role engraving technologies knowledge
- not needed by the target role estimate value of used jewellery and watches skill
- not needed by the target role metal and metal ore products knowledge
- not needed by the target role pour molten metal into moulds skill
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
- optional, not held coining optional
- optional, not held cultured pearls optional
Common questions about this move
Can a silversmith become a filigree maker?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A silversmith already covers 66% of what a filigree maker is expected to do: 27 skills carry over, 12 of which the filigree maker role treats as required.
What skills does a silversmith need to become a filigree maker?
7 required skills are missing, plus 5 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by constructing. The single most important is mark designs on metal pieces.
How hard is the move from silversmith to filigree maker?
Its learning distance is 37.9 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.