Occupation Atlasjewellery polisher
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e44d2570-10cc-4984-9692-63ece1b6dce8
jewellery polisher
Jewellery polishers ensure that finished jewellery pieces are cleaned by customer demand or prepared for sale. They may also perform minor repairs. They use either hand tools such as files and emery paper buff sticks and/or hand held polishing machines. They also use mechanised polishing machines such as barrel polishers.
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Job Zone
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- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.46
- C Conventional4.11
- I Investigative3.09
- A Artistic2.88
- E Enterprising2.14
- S Social1.15
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Gem and Diamond Workers (51-9071.06): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (9)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- buffing motions
- clean jewellery pieces
- ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
- gemstones
- grind gemstones
- jewellery processes
- polish gemstones
- sand gemstones
- use jewellery equipment
Optional (16)
- apply polishing lubricants
- coining
- cultured pearls
- imitation jewellery
- mark processed workpiece
- measure flatness of a surface
- metal polishing machine parts
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- operate metal polishing equipment
- operate precision measuring equipment
- precious metal processing
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- set up the controller of a machine
- supply machine
- tend metal polishing machine
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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