Education:
58%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
19%
Bachelor's Degree
Gem & Diamond Workers
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$76,130.00
Average:
$50,530.00
Hourly
Average:
$24.29
What they do:
Fabricate, finish, or evaluate the quality of gems and diamonds used in jewelry or industrial tools.
On the job, you would:
- Examine gems during processing to ensure accuracy of angles and positions of cuts or bores, using magnifying glasses, loupes, or shadowgraphs.
- Assign polish, symmetry, and clarity grades to stones, according to established grading systems.
- Estimate wholesale and retail value of gems, following pricing guides, market fluctuations, and other relevant economic factors.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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96% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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90% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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86% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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73% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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72% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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71% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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70% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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69% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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68% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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95% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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78% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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66% | Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
Evaluate quality of materials or products.
Determine the value of goods or services.
Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
Record operational or production data.
Advise others on ways to improve processes or products.
Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
Maneuver workpieces in equipment during production.
Operate grinding equipment.
Sort materials or products for processing, storing, shipping, or grading.
Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
Polish materials, workpieces, or finished products.
Operate cutting equipment.
Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
Select production equipment according to product specifications.
Mix substances to create chemical solutions.
Apply solutions to production equipment.
Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
Drill holes in parts, equipment, or materials.
Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.
Replace worn equipment components.
Solder parts or workpieces.
Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
Drill holes in parts, equipment, or materials.
Operate grinding equipment.
Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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97% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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96% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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95% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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94% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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94% | Spend Time Sitting - How much does this job require sitting? | |
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93% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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91% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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88% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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88% | Letters and Memos - How often does the job require written letters and memos? | |
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86% | Deal With External Customers - How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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85% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results - What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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84% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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82% | Electronic Mail - How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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81% | Coordinate or Lead Others - How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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73% | Exposed to Contaminants - How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
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70% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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68% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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82% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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69% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. | |
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68% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. | |
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65% | Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |