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

silversmithtojewellery assembler

A silversmith already meets 76% of what the jewellery assembler role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

From silversmith
76%
Overlap1
To jewellery assembler
32 Skills carried over
3 Required, not held
27.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

76%

Learning distance Short step

27.6/ 100

1 Share of the jewellery assembler role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the silversmith 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 jewellery assembler role treats 9 of its required skills as things a silversmith already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • adjust jewellery
  • clean jewellery pieces
  • ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
  • jewellery processes
  • mount stones in jewels
  • select gems for jewellery

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 32 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A jewellery assembler 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.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held apply smithing techniques handling and moving
  • already held electroplating processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held smoothen rough jewel parts handling and moving
  • already held cast jewellery metal handling and moving
  • already held electroplating metal materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held maintain jewels and watches handling and moving

All 32 carried skills, including the 9 the jewellery assembler role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 10 missing skills fall into 4 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 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held assemble metal parts required
  • required, not held repair jewellery required
  • required, not held assemble jewellery parts required
  • optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
  • optional, not held operate hand tools in chain making optional
02 arts and humanities 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
  • optional, not held cultured pearls optional
03 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held coining optional
  • optional, not held metal joining technologies optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held trade in jewellery optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a jewellery assembler 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 32 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held adjust jewellery skill
  • already held clean jewellery pieces skill
  • already held ensure conformance to jewel design specifications skill
  • already held jewellery processes knowledge
  • already held mount stones in jewels 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 apply smithing techniques skill
  • already held build jewellery models skill
  • already held cast jewellery metal skill
  • already held create jewellery skill
  • already held develop jewellery designs skill
  • already held electroplating metal materials knowledge
  • already held electroplating processes knowledge
  • already held engrave patterns skill
  • already held engraving technologies knowledge
  • already held estimate cost of jewellery and watches' maintenance skill
  • already held estimate restoration costs skill
  • already held estimate value of used jewellery and watches skill
  • already held evaluate restoration procedures skill
  • already held heat jewellery metals 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
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
  • optional, not held perform wire wrapping optional
  • optional, not held trade in jewellery optional
  • optional, not held coining optional
  • optional, not held cultured pearls optional
  • optional, not held metal joining technologies optional
  • optional, not held operate hand tools in chain making optional
6 held skills the jewellery assembler role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • 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 metal and metal ore products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform damascening skill
  • not needed by the target role pour molten metal into moulds skill
4 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
  • optional, not held imitation jewellery optional
  • optional, not held coining optional
  • optional, not held cultured pearls optional
  • optional, not held metal joining technologies optional
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.